Thirteen Significant Projects By Beverly Willis

Beverly Willis, FAIA Architect, artist, and writer, was one of perhaps three women architects in the United States to own her own sizeable architecture firm between 1958 and 1990 and the only woman in San Francisco, California, to have her own practice there for 17 years. Her book, Invisible Images: The Silent Language of Architecture, published by the National Building Museum, describes her design philosophy.

She was the first woman appointed to the Building Research Advisory Board of the National Academy of Science, the first appointed to the Federal Construction Council, and its first woman chair. She was the first woman elected president of the American Institute of Architects, California Council; and the Golden Gate Chapter of Lambda Alpha Society.

Willis played a major role in the revitalization of San Francisco neighborhoods after World War II. She renovated commercial spaces in the Jackson Square area and Union Street, redesigned Glide Church, designed the San Francisco Ballet Building, and won an international competition to design the Yerba Buena Gardens development downtown.

In 2018, Beverly Willis donated digital reproductions of thirteen signature projects to the International Archive of Women in Architecture.

Original slides, negatives, and transparencies for these projects may be viewed in the Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Reading Room: 
https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2018647061/ 

Information on each project may be found here: 
http://beverlywillis.com/architecture/significant-buildings/

Additional physical materials related to these projects may be viewed at the International Archive of Women in Architecture, Special Collections, Virginia Tech. For more information about project records, correspondence, and other physical materials, see: http://search.vaheritage.org/vivaxtf/view?docId=vt/viblbv00072.xml;