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Pioneering Wom n. Sarah Pillsbury Harkness. July 8, 1914 – May 22, 2013. Birthplace. Swampscott, Massachusetts. Education. Smith College Graduate School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture (Cambridge School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture for Women), M.Arch., 1940. Awards and Honors. Boston Society of Architects Prize, 1941.
Career. Work. Awards. Independent Study Unit (Carrel) Work and motherhood. References. Sarah P. Harkness. Sarah Pillsbury Harkness (July 8, 1914 – May 22, 2013) was an American architect. Early life and education.
The Pillsbury Summer House, built in 1938 on a secluded three-acre site overlooking the Duck Hill River and Duxbury Marsh, is a rare example of early modern architecture in New England. Designed by Sarah Pillsbury Harkness, one of the nation’s pioneering women in architecture, the house seamlessly blends early modernist principles of openness ...
Aug 19, 2023 · The Patriot Ledger. Sarah Pillsbury Harkness designed the house in 1938 at age 24. Pillsbury Harkness went on to found The Architects Collaborative with six others in 1945. Its principal...
On June 17, 2021, Historic New England invited Professor Wendy Cox of Norwich University to speak about Sarah Pillsbury Harkness, a boundary-breaking archite...
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Feb 1, 2023 · Two of Rothman’s subjects, Sarah Pillsbury Harkness and Jean Bodman Fletcher, were founding members of the Architects Collaborative, a Cambridge-based firm with which Bauhaus founder and architect Walter Gropius was involved when he co-designed the Murchison House, a modernist landmark at 2 Commercial St. in Provincetown.
