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One of only three women architects who received Queens Chamber Building Awards during this period, Irene Von Horvath studied architecture at what is now Carnegie Mellon University, joining the first coed class. She then established her architecture firm in Princeton where she had lived when she was younger. The building she helped design, Bestform Foundations, was honored in 1952. She was listed as a co-architect with the firm of Rahman and Astor. Von Horvath had done drafting work for Robert Rahman from 1943-48 so the pairing on this project makes sense. However she left Princeton a year after the Bestform project and on her listing in the 1956 American Architects Directory, this building is her only listed New York-area work. Settling in New Mexico, Von Horvath made her name as a prominent member of the local planning commission and passionate advocate for preserving the architecture and landscape of the city. She spent the rest of her life there and died in 2007.
Sources:
American Architects Directory, First Edition, 1956. Copyright 1956 R. R. Bowker LLC.
“Irene Von Horvath” Sante Fe Living Treasures <http://sflivingtreasures.org/index.php/treasures/124-von-horvath-irene-.html>
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Irene Von Horvath
One of only three women architects who received Queens Chamber Awards during this period, Irene Von Horvath studied architecture at what is now Carnegie Mellon University, joining the first coed class. She then established her architecture firm in Princeton where she had lived when she was younger. However she left Princeton a year after this building was completed and made her name in Sante Fe as a prominent member of the local planning commission and advocate for preserving the architecture and landscape of the city. She spent the rest of her life there and died in 2007.