Celebrating Womens History Month. The theme for Women's History Month 2025 is “Moving Forward Together! Women Educating & Inspiring Generations.”  Looking back and progressing forward we honor three women of architecture, engineering and landscape architecture.  

Upon receiving a Bachelor of Architecture degree from Virginia Tech, Helene followed a career path largely beyond the bounds of traditional architectural practice. She has worked in several not-for-profit settings such as The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, the American Institute of Architects, The Branch Museum of Architecture and Design, AIA Virginia, and the National Architectural Accrediting Board. This unique experience and exposure, in addition to her volunteer leadership positions, makes Helene a recognized expert in organizational transformation for design-related firms and small non-profits.

In early 2020, Helene launched a new business entity devoted to organizational transformation through change management, process innovation, leadership development, strategic planning, and ownership transition. The Three Aspens focuses on the culture of groups and entities, with a passion for elevating the vibrancy of design-related firms and small non-profits. Long interested in the ‘aspen analogy’ – the inter-connected nature of aspen trees – Helene uses this botanical model to inspire organizational vitality.

Ms Gilbreth has been called “the first lady of engineering” and “the world’s greatest woman engineer” due to her impact on industrial design and pioneering work in the field of time and motion studies. Gilbreth originally studied English and received her master’s degree in the field. But she was persuaded to pursue a doctorate in psychology (prior to the advent of industrial engineering) by husband Frank, who developed time-saving techniques to advance in the construction industry and is considered the father of time-motion studies. He started his own engineering consulting company, Gilbreth Inc., which helped businesses improve efficiency.

 

The family put their techniques to work with their 12 children (two of them wrote the books  Cheaper by the Dozen and  Belles on Their Toes, later turned into movies). After her husband’s death, Gilbreth applied their principles to the home and kitchen—for instance, designing an ideal kitchen layout and techniques to help disabled individuals.

 

Gilbreth became the first female professor in Purdue University’s engineering school and the first woman elected to the National Academy of Engineering. In 1984, after a campaign by NSPE members, the US Postal Service issued a 40-cent stamp commemorating her.

The only founding woman member of the American Society of Landscape Architects in 1899, Farrand was born in New York City and studied horticulture and garden design under the tutelage of Charles Sprague Sargent, director of the Arnold Arboretum. Through her New York social connections, she received major estate commissions and quickly developed a reputation for her elegant, restrained style and rich architectural detail. Her thoroughness of approach and attention to detail was appreciated by such exacting clients as Abby Aldrich Rockefeller, whose garden at Seal Harbor, Maine, Farrand designed, and Mildred and Robert Woods Bliss, with whom she collaborated for 26 years on Dumbarton Oaks in Washington, D.C. Dumbarton Oaks remains her finest surviving work. Farrand is also recognized for her campus work, including Princeton and Yale. She became Princeton University’s first consulting landscape architect in 1912, a position she held for 31 years. 

 

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