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Arc itectwasa ire ran inmale- ominate lel By Douglas Martin New York Times News Service
At the 1974 national convention of the American Institute of Architects in San Francisco, Judith Edelman
presented data showing that 1.2 percent of registered architects in the United States
were women. Only coal miners and steelworkers, she suggested, counted a lower proportion. These survey results, she said, "clearly demonstrate that the alleged grievances are not all in the heads of some paranoid chicks." She then agreed to lead a task force to tackle the issue, out of fear that someone "insuf-
women directly, she replied, "Oh,yes." When Edelman started looking for a job, she heard something similar. "We don't hire girls," one potential employer after another said. inson was one of the first
residents; restored the La MaMa theater on the Lower East Side; and built many
affordable housing projects. It won awards from the City Club of New York, the
She was then hired by the architect Huson Jackson, who
had an office in Greenwich Village, where she lived. Jackson, a professor at the Graduate School of Design
Municipal Art Society and
at Harvard, was a leader in bringing t h e I n t e rnation-
the American Institute of
al Style from Europe to the
representonly 20 percent of licensed practitioners and
United States.
"He was a great thinker, but he couldn't draw, interestingly enough," Edelman said. "He'd draw a squiggle and say, 'Turn this into a building.'" In 1947, she married Har-
and other buildings throughout New York City, as well as drafting many respected planning studies.
an even lower proportion of
But it was as a firebrand for women in a r chitecture
tion, which chronicles wom- turning to the United States, en's past and present contri- they formed a partnership
— she said she came to be called Dragon Lady at AIA headquarters in Washing-
butions to the industry.
partners in firms, according to the blog of the Beverly Willis Architecture Founda-
Judith Deena Hochberg
old Edelman, and they spent a year traveling in Europe on a fellowship she had won from Columbia. After rewith St a n le y Sa l z m an, who had worked with Wal-
ter Gropius, a giant of the Brooklyn t o i m m igrants profession who f o unded lished a broader reputation. from Eastern Europe. Her the Bauhaus architectural In the early 1970s, as femi- childhood fascination with school. Salzman left the firm nism challenged many insti- building turned into a desire in 1979 and died in 1991. tutions, she pointed out that to become an architect when Harold Edelman died in women were far less likely to she visited an architect's 1999. In addition to her son be in architecture schools or office as a junior in high Marc, Edelman is survived partners in firms than men, school. The desire solidified by another son, Joshua; her and were paid less. when an injury prevented sister, Joan Gitlow; eight In 1974, Ada Louise Hux- her from dancing, her first g randchildren; an d t w o table, architecture critic for love. great-grandchildren. was born Sept. 16, 1923, in
ton — that Edelman estab-
The New York Times, wrote
Her politics came from her
that it was "appalling" that
upbringing. "I was raised in a very lefty environment,"
the institute's national membership consisted of 24,000
she said in an interview with the blog of ESKW/A, the cur-
Edelman, who attended a design criticism session two
weeks before her death and then walked more than a dozen blocks home, was the model for a 1974 children's book, "What Can She Be'? An Architect." The authors,
men and 300 women. When Life magazine in 1976 sur- rent name of her firm. (The veyed women in professions, initials stand for Edelman it said that "none even today Sultan Knox Wood.) is a more exclusively male She attended Connecticut Gloria and Esther Goldrepreservethan architecture." College and New York Uni- ich, changed the character's In 1971, Edelman became versity before earning an ar- name to Susan Brody. the first woman elected to chitecture degree from CoAs a young architect, Edelthe executive committee of
the New York chapter of the
lumbia. Her class was mostly man did not know of Julia w omen and L a ti n A m e r - Morgan, the great California
icans, because American persuading what she termed men were fighting in World "an exclusive gentleman's War II. In the interview, she club" to elevate women. She said she had led a successalso fought for change from ful rebellion to include more outside the establishment, m odernist a r chitecture i n helping found the Alliance the curriculum. i nstitute, with th e goal of
of Women in Architecture in 1972.
In designing buildings, Edelman was clearly successful. The firm she started with her husband built more than 1,500 apartment units
and commercialenterprises between the Manhattan and
Williamsburg Bridges; devised a way to preserve the facades of nine brownstones
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heart attack Oct. 4 at h er women now account for half home in Manhattan, her of all graduates of American son Marc said. Her legacy architecture schools, they for the needy, health clinics
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Columbia professors, Judith Edelman recalled, often said, "We're wasting our time
ficiently stubborn" would get Architects. the job. Her great feminist cause Edelman died at 91 of a has fared less welL Although
includes designing housing
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Columbia professors,she
recalled, often said, "We're wasting our time on you girls." Asked by her interviewer if they said that to the
women directly, she replied, "Oh, yes." When Edelman started looking for a job, she heard something similar. "We don't
hire girls," one potential employer after another said. She finally found work drawing designs for brick-
on the Upper West Side to fashion a single multiunit building, where Jackie Rob- work for mental hospitals.
architect who designed San Simeon, the home of William Randolph Hearst, and more than 700 other build-
ings. She made that admission in a speech accepting the Woman of Vision award from the New York chapter of the National Organization
for Women in 1989.
Later generations knew about Edelman. In that same
speech, she talked about a young female architect, unknown to her, who years ago had said she named her cat Judy Edelman. "Astonished, I asked why," she said. The woman, she said, answered, " What other r o le
models are there?"
Joe Kline/The Bulletin file photo
A canal flows behind houses on Daniel Duke Way in Northeast Bend. New jurisdiction to the Clean Water Act could alter the definition of public waters.
Clean Water Act Almost everyone in Deschutes, Crook and Continued from B1 "We would say that states should have more authority, not less, in water regulahon,e he sald.
Oregon already has significant water quality regulanons in place on the state level, for both point source and non-point
sourcepollution, he said. "If EPA and the Corps move forward, do we evenneed a state
water program'? Everythirg becomes duplicative," he said. Freese worriedthat farmers
and ranchers could be subject to additional regulation if water collects on any part of their land
Jeffersoncounties — between 91 and 100 percent — get at least some of their drinking water either directly or indirectly from streams that are seasonal, rain-dependent or headwaters, according to EPA data. "There are a lot canals and
Science Advisory Board released a draft opinion in favor or collect some runoff, fmm of the proposed rule, which the dearlyjurisdictionaltributaries," board conduded is supported by said Freese. Thesewouldnowbe thebest available science. "There is stmng scientific subject to the Clean Water Act and were notbefore, he said. evidence to support the EPA's Some of these could be canals proposal to indude all tributarowned andmaintai nedbywater ies within the jurisdiction of the ditches that run through areas,
forevenpart of theyear. districts, he said. "If you go from raising alfalfa, "If you need to dean your caand you want to raise grapes, nal(of) debris,youneed apermit that's not a 'normal ~ ac- to do that," he said. tivity,' andyou'd need apermit to do that" under the new proposal,
he said. The permitting process would be expensive, require the hiring of experts, and would necessarily involve delays, he sald. Despite the EPA's assurances that the newdefinitions does not expand the Clean Water Act's jurisdiction, itis not dearthat the
a group, exert strong influence on the physical, chemical, and biological integrity of downEarlier this month, the Small sheam waters, even though Business Ad m i nistration'sthe degree of connectivity is a Office of Advocacy came out
function of variation in the fre-
against the EPA's proposal, saying the rule will be costly for small businesses, including farmers andranchers. "The rule will have a dhect and potentially costly impact
quency, duration, magnitude, predictability, and consequences of physical, chemical and biological processes," the opinion
on small businesses," states the SBA's letter to EPA administrachanges won't apply to new wa- tor Gina McCarthy and Maj. ters, he said. Gen. John Peabody, the deputy For example, the rule contin- commanding general for civil
ues to exempt upland ditches — upland being "any area that is not a wetland, stream, lake or other waterbody," according
and emergencyoperations for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. 'The limited economic analysis which the agencies to the EPA — from the Clean submitted with the ruleprovides Water Act — and doesn't apply ample evidence of a potentially to man-made ditches that don't significant economicimpact." containwateryear mund.
Roats
states. Behveen 16 and 60 percent of CentralOregon's stteams areintermittent, accordingto the EPA.
Almost everyone in Deschutes, Crook and Jefferson counties — between 91 and 100 per-
cent— getatleastsome oftheir drinking water either duectly or indirectly from streams that atte seasonal, rain-dependent or
headwaters, according to EPA data. — Reporter.202-662-7456, aclevenger@bendbulletift.com
Last month, the independent
"Itjust never crossed my mind that this could
Continued from B1 Roats is competing with three other candidates for the city council seat occupied
by Jodie Barram, who decided not to seek re-election in order to ru n fo r
Clean Water Act. Tributaries, as
D eschutes
County Commission. Roats, part owner of utility company Roats Water System, said
it would be "very frustrating" if this situation affected his eligibility. "It just never crossed my mind that this could be a problem," Roats said. "I've
be a problem.I've spent way more time inside the city than outside of it by a wide, wide
margin. l continued to work on three council committees during that time and kept up my businesses, and constantly checked in on the construction." — Bend City Council candidate Casey Roats,
who faces possibly ineligibility based on residency and constantly checked in on "We closed in a week. It was a really fast thing, we didn't really have a game plan. I'm sell was made on short notice, going to be very bummed if
the construction." Roats said the decision to
spent way more time inside the city than outside of it by a after he encountered an inwide, wide margin. I contin- vestor interested in his house. "I saw the guy walking on ued to work on three council committees during that time
this distracts from the issues
around the campaign. There's nobody more Bend than me."
my street and told him I'd be
— Reporter 541-633-2160 tleeds@bendbulletirt.com
and kept up my businesses, happy to sell," Roats said.
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DEATHS ELSEWHERE Deathsofnote from around theworld:
iconic black and white portraits of Communist revolu-
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A Sherwood manwas injured in a 20-foot fall in the RedWall climbing area atSmith RockState Park on Sundayevening, according to the Deschutes County Sheriff's Office. Deschutes County 911 received a report about 5:10 p.m. that a rock climber had fallen about 20 feet in the RedWall climbing area and sustained possible serious injuries to his backand right shoulder, according to a newsrelease. Four Deschutes County Search and Rescuevolunteers responded and hiked about a mile upthe Mis-
ery Ridge Trail, where they found the climber, TheodoreWogan,22. Wogan wasevaluated, stabilized and secured in awheeled litter and taken to aRedmond Fire & Rescue unit waiting near the foot bridge, according to the news release. Hewas transported to St. Charles Redmondfor treatment. Officials at the hospital could not
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