Beverly Willis, FAIA, who at age 74 launched a foundation dedicated to documenting women’s contributions to architecture and later to improving conditions for women architects, died on Sunday, October 1 at her home in Branford, Connecticut. She was 95.
An artist, architect, and activist, she created the Beverly Willis Architecture Foundation (BWAF) in New York in 2002. “Its initial purpose was to get women architects into the history books,” Willis told RECORD in 2021. Early on, the foundation sponsored research into the work of Marion Mahony Griffin, Natalie de Blois and other women who were too often overlooked by architectural historians. It gradually expanded its mission to include improving the visibility and influence of women working not only in architecture but in related fields. Willis directed several short films about women architects, including one on the female disciples of Frank Lloyd Wright, A Girl Is a Fellow Here.
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