a Celebration of the Life of Noel Phyllis Birkby" (1997) on the occasion of the opening of the Noel Phyllis Birkby Archive, bequeathed to the Sophia Smith Collection, Women's History Archive. Sherrill Redmon, collections director, organized the event. A symposium entitled "Radical Feminism and Lesbian Culture in the 1970s and Today" included women's movement activists: Sidney Abbott, coauthor of "Sappho Was a Right-On Woman" ; Bertha Harris, author of "Lover"; Kate Millett, author of "Sexual Politics"; and Alma Routsong, author of Patience and Sarah, published under pen name Isabel Miller. Throughout the 1970s to 1990s, Ms. Birkby produced photographs, audio and video recordings, and over 150 silent films on the women's movement, gay and lesbian activism, and lesbian culture in New York City. Films documented Ms. Birkby's architecture, personal life, and travel. Ms. Birkby's media is also held in the Sophia Smith Collection at Smith College. Further reading Nancy Allen. (1980) The Women's School of Planning and Architecture. Bellingham, Washington: Huxley College of Environmental Studies. Phyllis Birkby (Ed.) (1987) Amazon Expedition: Lesbian Feminist Anthology. Washington, N.J.: Times Change Press. . Noel Phyllis Birkby and Leslie Kanes Weisman. "Women's Fantasy Environment: Notes on a Project in Process." Heresies: A Feminist Publication on Art and Politics, No. 2 (May, 1977), pp. 116 - 117. Leslie Kanes Weisman. (1985) "The Women's School of Planning and Architecture," in Brunch, C. and Pollack, S. (Eds.), Learning Our Way: Essays in Feminist Education. Crossing Press: Trumansburg, N.Y. Additional Information Phyllis Birkby Papers at the Sophia Smith Collection, Smith College Special Collections References 1932 births 1994 deaths 20th-century American architects 20th-century American women artists 20th-century LGBT people American women architects American feminists American filmmakers Architects from New York City City University of New York faculty Cooper Union alumni Deaths from breast cancer Feminist filmmakers Lesbian feminists American LGBT artists LGBT people from New Jersey People from Great Barrington, Massachusetts People from Nutley, New Jersey Pratt Institute faculty University of North Carolina at Greensboro alumni University of Southern California faculty Yale School of Architecture alumni