Greene, Virginia A. 1959-

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GREENE, Virginia A. 1959-

PERSONAL:

Born December 1, 1959; daughter of Harold J. Greene (an architect). Education: Cornell University, B.Arch., 1984.

ADDRESSES:

Office—Virginia A. Greene Architect, PC, 153 Main St., Huntington, NY 11743. E-mail—[email protected].

CAREER:

Architect, educator, and author. Architect in private practice, Huntington, NY, 1996—. Senator Newhouse Committee Design Competition, SKETCH-WALKS, instructor, 1987-1988; New York Institute of Technology, and Central Islip (New York campuses), adjunct professor, 1988-1991; Heckscher Museum of Art, Huntington, NY, instructor, 1999-2000. Huntington Chamber of Commerce, member, 2000—; Heckscher Museum of Art, Buildings and Grounds Committee member, 2001—; Long Island Children's Museum, explainer, 2002; Huntington Public Arts Advisory Committee member, 2003.

Invited speaker and lecturer at the Graham Foundation for the Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts, Chicago, IL; New York State Convention of the American Institute of Architects, Brooklyn, NY; Cinema Arts Center Artists Series, Huntington, NY; and Chicago Restoration and Renovation, Chicago, IL.

MEMBER:

National Trust for Historic Preservation, American Institute of Architects (executive board member 1999-2001; executive board member secretary, 2002).

AWARDS, HONORS:

Graham Foundation for the Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts fellowship, Howard Van Doren Shaw research, 1987; American Institute of Architects fellowship, 1988.

WRITINGS:

The Architecture of Howard Van Doren Shaw, Chicago Review Press (Chicago, IL), 1998.

SIDELIGHTS:

Architect Virginia A. Greene established her architectural firm in 1996 on Main Street in Huntington, New York—the site on which her father established his own commercial and residential architectural business in 1956. According to a brief biography on her Web site, Greene's desire to "put all her creative energy into architectural design" culminated in her five-year architectural degree at Cornell University and an apprenticeship with two distinguished architectural firms in Chicago, Illinois.

Greene's 1998 book, The Architecture of Howard Van Doren Shaw, examines the work of Shaw, a late-nineteenth-century architect and contemporary of Frank Lloyd Wright. A traditionalist architect well regarded in his day, Shaw was largely forgotten following the introduction of modernist architecture in the early twentieth century. "This book rescues Shaw … the architect of extraordinary range," commented W. B. Maynard in Choice. M. W. Newmann wrote in the Chicago Tribune, "This is no deep-probing study.… It is a welcome advance, however, toward greater recognition of Shaw."