Susana Torre

Susana Torre (born 1944) is an Argentine-born American architect, critic and educator, based in New York City (1968–2008) and in Carboneras, Almeria, Spain (since 2009). Torre has developed a career that combined “theoretical concerns with the actual practice of building” and architectural and urban design with teaching and writing. Torre was the first woman invited to design a building in Columbus, IN, “a town internationally known for its collection of buildings designed by prominent architects.”

In 1977 Torre organized and curated the first major exhibition of American women architects, and edited the book ''Women in American Architecture: A Historic and Contemporary Perspective''. The exhibition opened at the Brooklyn Museum in 1977 and traveled across the United States and to the Netherlands. The exhibition and book of the same title, which she edited and to which she contributed three essays, pioneered work in this field. Torre was also a co-founder of ''Heresies, A Feminist Journal on Art and Politics''; was a member of the editorial collectives of ''Heresies 2: Patterns of Communication and Space''; and ''Heresies 11: Making Room: Women in Architecture''; and served on the editorial board of ''Chrysalis'' between 1976 and 1978. Provided by Wikipedia