Barbara Taylor Welander was the first registered female architect in the State of Iowa.
Welander was one of a very few number of female students at the Iowa State University College of Engineering. She was appointed by the Governor to the Building Code Advisory Council, eventually becoming chairman. She was also on the Architectural Examining Board, becoming chairman of it.[1][2]
In 1975, Welander was named one of the Ten Outstanding Young Women of America.[3]
When Welander enrolled in Iowa State's architecture program in 1962, she was one of eleven women in the freshman class. At the end of the five-year program, she was the only woman.[4][2]
References
edit- ^ Swarm, Curt (December 21, 2015). "Barb Welander, A Woman in a Man's World". Southeast Iowa Union. Retrieved 8 December 2020.
- ^ a b "Iowa architect firms have few women, fewer still as principals". The Gazette. January 17, 2016. Retrieved 8 December 2020.
- ^ "The original documents are located in Box 4, folder "11/17/75 - Ten Outstanding Young Women of America" of the Betty Ford White House Papers, 1973-1977 at the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library" (PDF). Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library. Retrieved 8 December 2020.
- ^ "The Push to Bring More Women into Architecture and Keep Them There". Iowa Publuc Radio. February 24, 2016. Retrieved 8 December 2020.
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