Brenda Dyer Szabo
Brenda Dyer Szabo (Beverly, Massachusetts April 18, 1926 - October 13, 2017) was an architect, planner and author known for her Modernist designs and architectural criticism.
Early life and career[edit]
Born in Beverly, Massachusetts on April 18, 1926, she graduated with a BA from Radcliffe College in 1948. She earned a Master of Architecture from the Harvard Graduate School of Design in 1951, where she studied under Walter Gropius, founder of the German Bauhaus. At Harvard, she met architect Albert Szabo, whom she married in 1951.[1]
She was the principal at the architecture firms Szabo Associates and Soltan/Szabo, both based in Cambridge, Massachusetts. She practiced in New York, Chicago and Cambridge as well as in Kabul, Afghanistan.[1] She designed numerous houses in the US [2] as well as numerous planning projects
Work in Afghanistan[edit]
She taught architecture at the University of Kabul as a Fulbright Hayes lecturer in 1974 and also worked as an architectural consultant for the American International school in Kabul.[1] After returning to Cambridge, she co-authored with Albert Szabo "Preliminary Notes on the Indigenous Architecture of Afghanistan" which was published by the Harvard Graduate School of Design in 1978.[3]
Work at Harvard and afterward[edit]
She was a project/campus planner at Harvard University from 1975 to 1989 and was instrumental in making the campus more universally accessible.[1]
She wrote architecture and design criticism for a variety of journals and magazines, including the Milan-based, bilingual journal Habitat Ufficio.[4] Her subjects ranged from the Japanese architect Tadao Ando[4] to the design of pachinko hall in Kyoto[5] to Peter Forbes in Maine[5] to Gropius house in Lincoln, Massachusetts.[6]
References[edit]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 "Brenda Dyer Szabo, 1926-2017". Boston Globe Obituaries. October 22, 2017. Retrieved February 15, 2019.
- ↑ Szabo, Brenda Dyer (November 1993). "Le Ragioni della Forma". Ville Giardini. numero 286: 10–17.
- ↑ Szabo, Albert; Szabo, Brenda Dyer; Harvard University; Department of Architecture (1978). Preliminary notes on the indigenous architecture of Afghanistan. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University, Graduate School of Design, Dept. of Architecture. Search this book on
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Dyer Szabo, Brenda (May 1992). "Humanism in Abstraction". Habitat Ufficio (Milano). 55: 3, 64–73.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 Szabo, Brenda Dyer (June 1995). "Casa a Orcutt Harbor". Area 26 - European review of project culture: 50–55.
- ↑ Szabo, Dyer Brenda. "The Gropius House Revisited". Flare, Architectural Lighting Magazine: 14–23.
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