Dolores Hayden
Dolores Hayden is an American professor emerita of architecture, urbanism, and American studies at Yale University. She is an urban historian, architect, author, and poet. Hayden has made innovative contributions to the understanding of the social importance of urban space and to the history of the built environment in the United States.
Dolores Hayden
- Born
- 1945.
- Nationality
- United States.
- Occupation
- historian, architect, poet, historian of urban planning and writer.
- Known for
- The Power of Place: Urban Landscapes as Public History, Building Suburbia: Green Fields and Urban Growth and 1820-2000.
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Dolores Hayden is an American professor emerita of architecture, urbanism, and American studies at Yale University. She is an urban historian, architect, author, and poet. Hayden has made innovative contributions to the understanding of the social importance of urban space and to the history of the built environment in the United States.
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Dolores Hayden (born 1945) is an American architect, historian and historian of urban planning, among other activities. The architect was born in New York City.
Dolores Hayden studied at Harvard Graduate School of Design, Mount Holyoke College and University of Cambridge. The architect worked for Yale University.
Works include Building Suburbia: Green Fields and Urban Growth, 1820-2000. Dolores Hayden received Guggenheim Fellowship, National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship and Writer Magazine/Emily Dickinson Award.
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Background
Background
Hayden received her B.A. from Mount Holyoke College in 1966. She also studied at Cambridge University and the Harvard Graduate School of Design where she obtained her professional degree in architecture. She is the widow of sociologist and novelist, Peter H. Marris and is the mother of Laura Hayden Marris.
Career
Career
Since 1973, Hayden has held academic appointments at MIT, UC Berkeley, UCLA, and Yale. She has taught courses in architecture, urban landscapes, urban planning, and American studies. She founded a Los Angeles-based non-profit arts and humanities group called The Power of Place which was active from 1984 to 1991. The goal of the organization was to, "celebrate the historic landscape of the center of the city and its ethnic diversity. Under her direction, collaborative projects on an African American midwife's homestead, a Latina garment workers' union headquarters, and Japanese-American flower fields engaged citizens, historians, artists, and designers in examining and commemorating the working lives of ordinary citizens." This is documented in the text, The Power of Place: Urban Landscapes as Public History.
Chapters
Chapters
'Challenging the American Domestic Ideal', featured in Women in American Architecture: A Historic and Contemporary Perspective (1977) 'Catharine Beecher and the Politics of Housework', featured in Women in American Architecture: A Historic and Contemporary Perspective (1977)
Life and career
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Life and career
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1945
Dolores Hayden born at New York City.
Books
Exuberance: Poems, Red Hen Press, 2019. American Yard: Poems, 2004. A Field Guide to Sprawl (W. W. Norton, 2004) ISBN 9780393731255 Building Suburbia: Green Fields and Urban Growth, 1820-2000 (Pantheon, 2004) ISBN 9780375727214 Redesigning the American Dream: Gender, Housing, and Family Life, W W Norton, 1984, rev. ed. 2002. ISBN 9780393730944 The Power of Place: Urban Landscapes as Public History, MIT Press, 1995. The Grand Domestic Revolution: A History of Feminist Designs for American Homes, Neighborhoods, and Cities, MIT Press, 1981. 家事大革命―アメリカの住宅、近隣、都市におけるフェミニスト・デザインの歴史 ISBN 9784326600410 Seven American Utopias: The Architecture of Communitarian Socialism, 1790-1975 (MIT Press, 1976) ISBN 9780262080828 Nymph, Dun, and Spinner: Poems (David Robert Books, 2010) ISBN 9781936370061
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scholarly publication
- Dolores Hayden (b.1945), Women in Architecture, 2025
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- Dolores Hayden, Gender Space Architecture, 2002
Scholarly · Crossref registry · 2002
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- Wikidata, structured authority record Q5289528: Dolores Hayden
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- “Dolores Hayden”, English Wikipedia, consulted as further reading
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Awards
American Library Association Notable Book Award for Excellence in Design Research from the National Endowment for the Arts Paul Davidoff Award for an outstanding book in Urban Planning from the ACSP Diana Donald Award for feminist scholarship from the American Planning Association Vincent Scully Prize, National Building Museum, 2022 Matilde Ucelay Award, Spanish Ministry of Transport and Urban Agendas, 2022
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- 1.Caves, R. W. Encyclopedia of the City. Routledge. 335. 2004.
- 2.Till, Katherine. NATIONAL BUILDING MUSEUM ANNOUNCES DOLORES HAYDEN AS 2022 VINCENT SCULLY PRIZE RECIPIENT National Building Museum. 2022-09-07.
- 3.Brown, Patricia Leigh. DESIGN NOTEBOOK; Defining Sprawl: From A to Z. The New York Times. 2004-06-17. 0362-4331.
- 4.Townsend, Peter. Obituary: Peter Marris. The Guardian. 2007-07-05. 0261-3077.
- 5.Dolores Hayden Henry Koerner Center for Emeritus Faculty. emeritus.yale.edu.
- 6.Hayden, Dolores. The Power of Place. Journal of Urban History. 20. 4. 466–485. August 1994. 0096-1442.
- 7.Dolores Hayden - Home. 2008-05-04.
- 8.The Power of Place and Emerging Voices. PBS SoCal. 2014-05-23.
- 9.NATIONAL BUILDING MUSEUM ANNOUNCES DOLORES HAYDEN AS 2022 VINCENT SCULLY PRIZE RECIPIENT National Building Museum. 2022-09-07.
- 10.Dolores Hayden Wins 2022 Vincent Scully Prize and 2022 Matilde Ucelay Award Henry Koerner Center for Emeritus Faculty. emeritus.yale.edu.
- 11.Exuberance. DOLORES HAYDEN.
- 12.American Yard. DOLORES HAYDEN.
- 13.Dolores Hayden. Poetry Foundation. 2020-03-11.
- 14.Dolores Hayden. Yale Architecture.
- 15.Dolores Hayden. Yale Architecture.
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