Women in the archives – Mary Norman Woods

About: Mary Norman Woods, Mary N. Woods is the author of seminal works as: Women Architects in India: Histories of Practice in Mumbai and Delhi, Beyond the Architect’s Eye: Photographs of the American Built Environment and From Craft to Profession: The Practice of Architecture in 19th-Century America. She was the inaugural Michael McCarthy Professor of Architectural Theory at Cornell University. Named professor emerita there in 2019, Prof. Woods was the first woman to be tenured in Cornell’s architecture departments in 1991, 120 years after its establishment. She was the recipient of the Tau Sigma Delta Silver Medal for distinguished scholarship in 2018. Tau Sigma Delta is a US national honor society for architecture and the allied arts. She has been awarded a fellowship by Canadian Centre for Architecture, Center for Creative Photography, University of Arizona; Fulbright Foundation, American Institute for Indian Studies; American Council of Learned Societies; and Buell Center for American Architecture, Columbia University. Her current projects are a documentary film about Indian single-screen cinemas with director Vani Subramanian; exhibition on Mumbai’s architecture of the night with photographer Chirodeep Chaudhuri; and history of post-industrial ruin and urban renewal in New York and Mumbai from the 1960s onward.