Beverly Willis

Overview

ARTstor is collaborating with Beverly Willis to share approximately 50 images of works of architecture in the Digital Library. Beverly Willis (b. 1928) is an architect, artist, and author. She is a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects (FAIA) and served as the first female President of the California Council of the American Institute of Architects (AIA) in 1979. Willis began her career as a painter and multi-media artist and founded Willis Atelier in Honolulu, Hawaii in 1954. In 1966, she established an architectural practice, Willis and Associates, Inc., in San Francisco, California. The firm's award-winning projects in San Francisco include Union Street Stores (1965), the Margaret Hayward Park Building (1978), and the San Francisco Ballet Building in the City Civic Center (1983). In the early 1970s, Willis' firm developed CARLA (Computerized Approach to Residential Land Analysis), a computer application for planning and architectural use. In 1979, CARLA was used to plan, engineer, and design Aliamanu Valley, a community in Honolulu that housed 11,500 people in 525 buildings.

In 2002, Beverly Willis founded the Beverly Willis Architecture Foundationwhose mission is to expand the historical knowledge and cultural recognition of American women architects of the 20th century. Willis is a founding trustee of the National Building Museum in Washington, D.C., where The Beverly Willis Library was opened in 2008 to honor Willis' contributions to the museum.

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Collection information

Total size of collection* 50
Percentage of completion 0%

* Image totals should be regarded as an approximation until a given collection is 100% complete. Users should also bear in mind that the number of images available to them may vary from country to country, reflecting ARTstor’s approach to addressing an international copyright landscape that itself varies from country to country.

Last updated: November 12, 2009