Mary Caroline McLeod is a professor of architectural history and theory at

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known for her examination of modern architecture, especially the work of

Le Corbusier Charles-Édouard Jeanneret (6 October 188727 August 1965), known as Le Corbusier ( , , ), was a Swiss-French architect, designer, painter, urban planner, writer, and one of the pioneers of what is now regarded as modern architecture. He was ...

. She is a fellow of the

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, and has received many fellowships and awards, including a Brunner Award, Fulbright Fellowship, NEH award, and grants from New York Council of the Arts and the Graham Foundation.

Education and career

McLeod has a B.S., M.Arch, and a Ph.D. from

Princeton University Princeton University is a private university, private research university in Princeton, New Jersey. Founded in 1746 in Elizabeth, New Jersey, Elizabeth as the College of New Jersey, Princeton is the List of Colonial Colleges, fourth-oldest ins ...

. As of 2021, she is a professor of architecture at

Columbia Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation (GSAPP) is the architecture school of Columbia University, a private research university in New York City. It is regarded as an important and highly prestigious architecture school.

(GSAPP). She has also previously worked as a professor at

Harvard University Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Founded in 1636 as Harvard College and named for its first benefactor, the Puritan clergyman John Harvard, it is the oldest institution of higher le ...

the Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies The Institute for Architecture & Urban Studies is a non-profit architecture studio and think tank located in Manhattan, New York, United States. IAUS (1967–1984) The Institute of Architecture and Urban Studies was founded in 1967 as a non-pr ...

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, and

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. McLeod's essays have been published in journals and anthologies such as ''

Oppositions ''Oppositions'' was an architectural journal produced by the Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies from 1973 to 1984. Many of its articles contributed to advancing architectural theory and many of its contributors became distinguished practi ...

'', '' Assemblage'', '' Art Journal'', ''

Harvard Design Magazine ''Harvard Design Magazine'' (ISSN 1093-4421) is a biannual publication of the Harvard Graduate School of Design. It is indexed by the standard subject bibliographies, including Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals, Bibliography of the History ...

'', ''AA Files'',
JSAH
', ''Casabella'', ''The Sex of Architecture'', ''Architecture in Fashion'', ''Architecture of the Everyday'', ''Architecture and Feminism'', ''The Pragmatist Imagination'', ''Architecture Theory since 1968'', ''The State of Architecture'', ''Fragments: Architecture and the Unfinished'', ''Le Parole dell'Architettura'', and ''Modern Women: Women Artists at The Museum of Modern Art''. Her main focus is on modern architecture specially Le Corbusier and she received the Arnold Brunner grant in 2015 which she used to research Le Corbusier's response to World War II. In 2019, McLeod was one of three who study architecture and joined to discuss

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architecture with ''Architectural Record''. McLeod has also published on the English architect

Alan Colquhoun Alan Harold Colquhoun (27 June 1921 – 13 December 2012) was an English architect, historian, critic and teacher. Biography Colquhoun was born in Eton, Buckinghamshire on 27 June 1921 and attended Bradfield School. He went on to study architect ...

and organized the 2021 colloquium celebrating his life. McLeod and Victoria Rosner led an effort to expand knowledge about women in architecture through five years of research in the field. Regarding women in architecture, McLeod has been quoted in the ''

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'' for her work noting that female architects "...don't have as much panache for the big glitter jobs". The websit
Pioneering Women of American Architecture
launched by the

Beverly Willis Beverly Willis (born February 17, 1928) is an American architect who played a major role in the development of many architectural concepts and practices that influenced the design of American cities and architecture. Willis' achievements in the ...

Architecture Foundation in 2017, continues to make visible the achievements of women's contributions to American architecture.

Selected bibliography

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Recognition

In 2020, McLeod was named a fellow of the Society of Architectural Historians.

References

External links

Pioneering women in architecture
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