Occupation Architect and author | Name Doris Cole | |
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Awards Award of Excellence (2006), Boston Preservation Alliance Achievement Award (2001), Massachusetts Historical Commission Preservation Award (2001), BSA/IIDA/ASID Interior Design Award (2000) Website www.doriscolearchitect.com Practice Cole and Goyette, Architects and Planners, Inc. (1981–2012)Doris Cole FAIA, Architecture/Planning (2012–present) | ||
Doris cole
Doris Cole, FAIA, (born March 9, 1938) is an American architect and author. She was a founding principal of Cole and Goyette, Architects and Planners Inc. She is the author of From Tipi to Skyscraper: A History of Women in Architecture. which was the first book on women in architecture in the United States.
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- Doris cole
- Early life and education
- Architectural practice
- Other activities
- Selected projects
- Selected awards and exhibitions
- References
Early life and education
Cole was born in Chicago, the younger of two daughters of Louis Cole and Helen Exley Moore, and was raised in the city and in Grand Rapids, graduating from East Grand Rapids High School in 1955. She received the AB cum laude from Radcliffe College in 1959, and the Master of Architecture from Harvard University Graduate School of Design in 1963.
Architectural practice
Cole's early career was spent in architectural offices in Paris and Boston. In 1981, she was a founding principal of Cole and Goyette, Architects and Planners in Cambridge, Massachusetts, with Harold Goyette, and she remained with the practice until 2012. The firm specialized in educational, commercial, and residential buildings for public and private clients.
Cole's projects included the East Boston High School addition and renovation. She also worked on Everett and Gardner schools additions and renovations in Boston. She also designed a private home and barn in Westwood.
In 1994, she was named a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects and in 2006 the Boston Society of Architects awarded her the Women in Design Award of Excellence.
In 2012, Cole established a new practice, Doris Cole FAIA, Architecture/Planning.
Other activities
Doris Cole wrote the first book on women in architecture in the United States, From Tipi to Skyscraper: A History of Women in Architecture. Other books include Eleanor Raymond, Architect, The Lady Architects: Lois Lilley Howe, Eleanor Manning, and Mary Almy 1893–1937, and School Treasures: Architecture of Historic Boston Schools.
Her community service has included the Corporation of Springfield College, Harvard Alumni Association and Harvard University Graduate School of Design Alumni/ae Council. She has lectured at the University of Virginia, Chicago Women in Architecture and elsewhere.
Cole's professional and personal papers are part of the Doris Cole and Harold Goyette Collection at the Harvard University, Graduate School of Design, Loeb Library, Special Collections.