Phyllis Cook Carlisle

Phyllis Cook Carlisle
Phyllis Cook Carlisle
Born	1912; Toronto, Canada
Died	1954 (aged 41–42); Toronto, Canada
Nationality	Canadian
Education	University of Toronto
Known for	Architecture
Spouse(s)	Kenneth Carlisle (m. after 1937)

Phyllis Cook Carlisle (1912 - 1954) née Phyllis Willson Cook was a Canadian architect.[1]

Biography

Cook was born in Toronto in 1912. She attended the University of Toronto and graduated with honors in 1935 earning a B.Arch.[1] While at university she became the first woman to win the annual student design competition by the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada (RAIC). In 1934, that design for An Embassy in the Capital City of a Country in the Temperate Zon was published in the RAIC Journal.[1]

Additional awards won during her school years included the Toronto Brick Company Award, Architectural Guild Bronze Medal, and the Darling and Pearson prize.[2]

In 1935 Cook wrote an article for RAIC Journal called The Modern Kitchen.[1]

From 1935 to 1937 Cook worked at Eaton’s Department Store in Toronto, where she was part of the Interior Decorating Department.[2]

In 1937 Cook married Kenneth Carlisle. They had three children.[2]

As her career continued, Cook (now Carlisle) designed kitchens that appeared in the Formica promotional materials.[3]

Carlisle also designed several residences in Ontario.[1]

Around 1945 Carlisle appeared in a series on the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation about home renovations.[3]

She died in 1954 at the age of 42.[1]

gollark: So the probability of there being one or more birthday today is 0.142, assuming birthdays are uniformly distributed and ignoring leap years.

gollark: There are 56 people on the server or something close to that.

gollark: Essentially, we calculate the probability that it's nobody's birthday and take it away from 1.

gollark: (n is the number of people on the server)

gollark: As such, we can calculate the probability that it is someone's birthday as 1 - (364/365)^n.

References

"Carlisle, Phyllis Cook (Phyllis Willson Cook)". Canadian Women Artists History Initiative. Retrieved 4 November 2017.
Grierson, edited by Joan; Committee, the For the Record (2008). For the record the first women in Canadian architecture. Toronto: Dundurn Press. pp. 34–35. ISBN 1770706410. Retrieved 4 November 2017.CS1 maint: extra text: authors list (link)
Adams, Annmarie; Tancred, Peta (2000). Designing women gender and the architectural profession. Toronto [Ont.]: University of Toronto Press. ISBN 9781442673847. Retrieved 4 November 2017.

This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.

[cwahi-1] "Carlisle, Phyllis Cook (Phyllis Willson Cook)". Canadian Women Artists History Initiative. Retrieved 4 November 2017.

[DundurnPress-2] Grierson, edited by Joan; Committee, the For the Record (2008). For the record the first women in Canadian architecture. Toronto: Dundurn Press. pp. 34–35. ISBN 1770706410. Retrieved 4 November 2017.CS1 maint: extra text: authors list (link)

[UniversityofTorontoPress-3] Adams, Annmarie; Tancred, Peta (2000). Designing women gender and the architectural profession. Toronto [Ont.]: University of Toronto Press. ISBN 9781442673847. Retrieved 4 November 2017.