Susana Torre

Su­s­ana Torre was born in 1944 in Puan, Ar­gen­tina, and has lived in the United Sta­tes since 1968. She re­cei­ved her ar­chi­tec­tu­ral di­ploma from the Uni­ver­sity of Bue­nos Aires, and stu­died urban plan­ning there and at Co­lum­bia Uni­ver­sity in New York. She was prin­ci­pal of The Ar­chi­tec­tu­ral Stu­dio of New York from 1978 to 1984, a part­ner at Wank Adams Sla­vin As­so­ciates and then Torre Bee­ler As­so­ciates from 1985 to 1989, and prin­ci­pal of Su­s­ana Torre and As­so­ciates of New York from 1989 to 1994. Torre was di­rec­tor of the Bar­nard Col­lege Ar­chi­tec­ture Pro­gram and an as­so­ciate pro­fes­sor of ar­chi­tec­ture (1981-89) at Co­lum­bia Uni­ver­sity, and for­merly di­rec­tor of the Cran­brook Aca­demy of Art in Bloom­field Hills, Mi­chi­gan.

Her most no­ta­ble projects in­clude nu­merous re­no­va­tions and re­mo­de­lings, in­clu­ding the Editor's and Gra­phic Designer's loun­ges in the Old Pen­sion Buil­ding in Wa­shing­ton, D.C. (1979); the in­te­rior of the Con­su­late for the Ivory Coast in New York City (1980); a mas­ter plan for the resto­ra­tion of Ellis Is­land in New York Har­bor (1981); a turn-of-the-century car­riage house in Sou­th­hamp­ton, New York, which re­cei­ved a 1982 Award of Ex­cel­lence of De­sign from Ar­chi­tec­tu­ral Re­cord; Scher­mer­horn Hall at Co­lum­bia Uni­ver­sity (1985); and Fire Sta­tion Five of Co­lum­bus, In­diana (1987).

In 1977 the Ar­chi­tec­tu­ral Le­ague of New York, through its Ar­chive of Women in Ar­chi­tec­ture, pu­blis­hed Women in Ame­ri­can Ar­chi­tec­ture: a His­to­ric and Con­tem­porary Per­spec­tive. Torre edi­ted and wrote the in­tro­duc­tion and se­veral seg­ments to this book. She was project di­rec­tor for the ex­hi­bit, »Women in Architecture«, which opened at the Brook­lyn Mu­seum in 1977 and then tou­red around the United Sta­tes. She is an ho­no­rary mem­ber of the Board of Ad­vi­sors for the In­ter­na­tio­nal Ar­chive of Women in Ar­chi­tec­ture, ha­ving ser­ved on the board from 1985 to 1995.