Presentation: Women Architects and Their Potential Roles in Creating Family Environments

Professor Lois Langhorst, A.I.A., Women Architects and Their Potential Roles in Creating Family Environments. Professor Langhorst\u27s talk, illustrated with slides, will focus on women as architectural decision-makers. She will address herself to the necessity of engaging women in decision-making positions, and to the practical problems of a woman architect as parent. Ms. Langhorst is Professor of Architecture at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. She has also taught at the University of Kentucky, and the University of California at Davis and at Berkeley. Her architectural design experience includes numerous award-winning residential projects as well as publication in magazines and journals, including Architectural Forum, Better Homes and Gardens, and Time. She recently received her Master of Fine Arts Degree from Harvard University, where she is a candidate for the Ph.D. degree in Fine Arts in History of Architecture and Urbanism. Ms. Langhorst is the mother of three daughters