Not a Woman's Job: A Female Architect in a Male Dominated Field

By M Rosaria Piomelli

Book Overview

Not A Woman's Job is a memoir about a female architect in a male dominated field at the time in 1960 to the change towards equality, acceptance and achievements of today. M Rosaria Piomelli's life's story begins during WW II where she and her family escape with their lives on three separate occasions when she was a little girl growing up in Naples, Italy. From Naples, Italy, to graduating from MIT in Cambridge, Massachusetts to becoming the first female Dean of Architecture in the United States at City College School of Architecture in Manhattan, New York, her spellbinding, adventurous life takes the reader through a whirlwind of relationships, disappointments, survival, accomplishments, and determination that shows that whatever she put her mind to do would be done well until completion.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1091368384
• ISBN13: 9781091368385
• Release Date: April 2019
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 0.74 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"