Not a woman architect : the life and work of Brigitte Peterhans / edited by David Fleener.

Berlin : DOM publishers, [2025]
©2025

191 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), plans, portrait ; 23 cm.

Basics ; volume 186

This book presents the life story of an extraordinary woman in the world of corporate architecture during the Mad Men era of the 1950s to 1980s. Born in a small village in Germany, Brigitte Peterhans managed to come to America to study with Mies van der Rohe at the Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago, and then to work with Bruce Graham at Skidmore, Owings & Merrill. Her work during this time reflected the mid-century modernism of Mies and SOM. Later in her career, both towards the end of her time at SOM and then on her own after retiring from SOM, she developed her own individual style. Significantly, Peterhans avoided any attempt to be either challenged or praised strictly as a woman architect, insisting that she was merely an architect. Yet she overcame the challenges of being a woman architect, and her spirit and determination left a lasting impression on her young colleagues. Brigitte Peterhans' story therefore has the merit to inspire many more up-and-coming architects, both women and men.

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Peterhans, Brigitte, 1928-2021.
Architects Germany Biography.
Women architects Germany Biography.
Architecture, Modern.
Architectes Allemagne Biographies.
Femmes architectes Allemagne Biographies.
Architecture History.
Women architects
United States

Biographies
Biography.

Fleener, David, editor.
Peterhans, Brigitte, 1928-2021.
Basics (Berlin, Germany) ; 186.

Life and work of Brigitte Peterhans

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