Photo description:

RUTH BONNEVILLE / FREE PRESS ENT - Architecture Foundation Portrait of Marieke Gruwel, the new executive director of the Winnipeg Architecture Foundation, with previous books written by the foundation. Her book comes out on March 8th. (She did not have a copy of her book for the photo). Marieke Gruwel, the new executive director of the Winnipeg Architecture Foundation, has written a book about Manitoban women in fields like architecture, landscape design, interior design, engineering and planning, due for publication on March 8. Gruwel, 31, has been researching and writing about some of these women, including Elizabeth Lord, the first woman registered as an architect in Manitoba, for over a decade. She wrote her masters thesis in art history from Concordia University on two of the figures, Lord and Elizabeth Pilcher, who played a key role at GBR Architecture in the 1950s Reporter: Ben Waldman Feb 26th, 2024