Architect, Glenn Hill Offers to Build a Virtual House
4/18/2001
I sat among male engineering and science faculty as a substitute (representing the arts) at a meeting to develop a user fee policy for the use of Texas Tech University's High Performance Computer Center (HPCC). I think the only other women in the room were the HPCC Director's assistants.
After hearing about various uses of the HPC for biowarfare, surgery, and other things I no longer remember, I was asked, "How would art faculty use the High Performance Computer Center?"
I described an idea I had developed as a parallel project to what Jane Olmstead was planning in Kentucky with a house interior reconstructed with artist, Judy Chicago. I briefly described Judy Chicago's 1971, Womanhouse and how I teach feminist research methods and would like to use such methodologies to explore with my graduate students, if and how spaces are gendered in houses, and in what ways it differs 30 years after Chicago's exploration with her students.
After the meeting one participant, an architect professor Glenn Hill, active in using the Center and in developing policy for its use, said, "I'll build you a house."
I was elated with his offer. We decided to meet soon to discuss the collaboration.
