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Collection is open to research.

Preferred Citation

Researchers wishing to cite this collection should include the following information: [identification of item], [box], [folder], Milka Bliznakov Prize Records, Ms2001-045, Special Collections and University Archives, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Va.

Source of Acquisition

The Milka Bliznakov Prize Records were donated to the International Archive of Women in Architecture at the Special Collections. Accruals are ongoing.

Processing Information

The processing, arrangement and description of the Milka Bliznakov Prize Records took place in 2001. The records were reprocessed and described to include additions in August 2005, September 2006, January 2012, March 2013, and 2017.

Historical Note

Milka Bliznakov Award and Research Prize Winners

2001 , Claire Bonney, "The Work and Life of Adrienne Gorska ".

2002, Elizabeth Birmingham, "Searching for Marion Mahony: Gender, Erasure, and the Discourse of Architectural Studies ".

2003, Barbara Nadel, "Security Design: Achieving Transparency in Civic Architecture " and Ozlem Erkarslan, "Turkish Women Architects in the Late Ottoman and Early Republican Era 1908-1960. "

2004, Dorrita Hannah, "un-housing performance : The Heart of PQ " and Janet Stoyel, "Sonicloth ".

2005, Carmen Alonso Espegel, "Heroines of the Space ", Isabel Bauer, "Architekturstudentinnen der Weimarer Republik ", and Bobbye Tigerman, "'I Am Not a Decorator' Florence Knoll, the Knoll Planning Unit, and the Making of the Modern Office ".

2005, Milka Bliznakov Honorarium, Joseph Chuo Wang.

2006, Milka Bliznakov Prize, Commendation, "Against All Odds: MIT's Pioneering Women of Landscape Architecture " by Eran Ben-Joseph, Holly D. Ben-Joseph and Anne C. Dodge.

2007, No prize awarded.

2008, Martha Alonso, Sonia Bevilacqua, and Graciela Brandariz, "Odilia Suárez: The Exemplary Trajectory of an Architect and Urbanist in Latin America " and Despina Stratigakos, "A Woman's Berlin "

2008, Milka Bliznakov Prize, Commendation, Lori Brown, feminist practices [exhibition].

2009, Patrick Lee Lucan, "Sarah Hunter Kelly: Designing the House of Good Taste ".

2010, Inge Schaefer Horton, "Early Women Architects of the San Francisco Bay Area ".

2011, Lindsay Nencheck, "Organizing Voices: Examining the 1974 Women in Architecture Symposium at Washington University in St. Louis ".

2012, Andrea J. Merrett, "Feminism in American Architecture: Organizing: 1972-1975 ".

2013, Robert Holton, "Natalie de Blois - Her role and contribution to the design of three pivotal SOM projects completed in New York City between 1950-1960: the Lever House, the Pepsi-Cola building and the Union Carbide ".

2014, Meredith Sattler, "Early Technological Innovation in the Systems Approach to Environmental Design: Situating Beverly Willis and Associates' CARLA platform [Computerized Approach to Residential Land Analysis] within the developmental trajectory of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) ".

2015, Claire Bonney Brüllman, "The Work and Life of Adrienne Gorska " and Sarah Rafson, "CARY (Chicks in Architecture Refuse to Yield) ".

2016, Ines Moisset, "Women Architects on the Web " and Tanja Poppelreuter, "Refugee and émigré female architects before 1940 ".

2017, Rixt Hoekstra, "Regarding De Stijl through a Gender Perspective: The Work and Life of Han Schröder (1918 -1992) " and Kirat Kaur Pandher (Student Prize), "Indian Architects: A Proposal for Directed Expansion ".

2018, Alex Bala, "Hanna Adamczewska-Wejchert, a lead designer of the industrial city of Tychy ".

2019, Eva Alvarez and Carlos Gomez, "Pluralism and Diversity in the Profession - Women Architects Speaking Spanish at the IAWA ".

2020, Canceled due to pandemic.

2021, Canceled due to pandemic.

2022, Daniela Núñez Ruiz, "Decolonizing the Archive: Mapping the IAWA's Global South Female Architects ".

2023, Lori Brown, FAIA, and Karen Burns, "Organizing Women Architects and Global Solidarity, 1963-1988: The International Union of Women Architects and the Cold War Divide ".

2024, Fabio Marino, "Liane Zimbler's Architectural Journey: Questioning the Interior Decorator Cliché from Vienna to California ".

2025, Caitlin Charlet, "Drawing the Unseen: Architectural Narratives of Women Who Shaped Space ".

Scope and Contents

The collection consists of yearly information and announcements about the Milka Bliznakov Prize and research proposal submissions. This prize is awarded annually and more records are expected at a later date.

Arrangement

The collection is arranged chronologically by year of submission. Information is divided into award announcements, which advertise the award and announce winners at various stages, proposal submissions, and original works of research.

Related Material

Additional information about the Milka Bliznakov Prize is available through links on the IAWA home page.

The IAWA Records, Ms1985-021, and the papers of Milka Bliznakov, Ms1991-025, are both housed with the IAWA and are on the IAWA Guide to the Collections.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

• Alonso, Carmen Espegel
• Alonso, Martha
• Bauer, Isabel
• Ben-Joseph, Eran
• Ben-Joseph, Holly D.
• Bevilacqua, Sonia
• Bliznakov, Milka T., 1927-2010
• Brandariz, Graciela
• Brown, Lori
• Dodge, Anne C.
• Hannah, Dorrita
• History of Women in Architecture
• Horton, Inge S.
• International Archive of Women in Architecture (IAWA)
• Lucas, Patrick Lee
• Sokolina, Anna P.
• Stoyel, Janet
• Stratigakus, Despina
• Tigerman, Bobbye
• Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (1970-)
• Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University -- College of Architecture and Urban Studies -- Milka Bliznakov Prize
• Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. College of Architecture (1974-1978)
• Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. College of Architecture and Urban Studies (1978-2022)
• Wang, Joseph Chuo
• Women -- History

Rights Statement for Archival Description

The guide to the Milka Bliznakov Prize Records by Special Collections and University Archives, Virginia Tech, is licensed under a CC0 ( https://creativecommons.org/share-your-work/public-domain/cc0/ ).