WOMAN ARCHITECT

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXII, Issue 22099, 3 May 1935, Page 4

WOMAN ARCHITECT

HONOURED BY TURKEY New Zealand women may be interested to know that an Englishwoman who has spent some years in tho Dominion is now receiving signal honours abroad. She is Miss Grace Cope, daughter of Sir John Cope, the well-known architect, and is the only woman member at' the Royal Society of Architects. For some years Governments of various countries have invited her to lecture on domestic architecture, and recently tho Turkish Government did her the unprecedented honour of asking her to go to Ankara and confer with three other architects (from Germany, Italy and France) on the lay-out of tho new capital. Turkey announces that she is picking the best brains of the world for Ankara, .and that Britain's sole representative should be a woman is rather remarkable. Miss Cope found that she was everywhere treated with the greatest courtesy, lodged at the Palace, and passed through Constantinople and all Turkey by special escort. Her plans and designs in general have been adopted for the domestic architecture of Ankara, and her book on the subject is now the text-book for architectural students in Athens and in Turkey. It deals very largely with sanitary and general health aspects of life and tho simplifying of work in tho home.

Miss Cope also travelled in Palestine, where sho' was given special opportunities for inspecting the new Jewish city, Tel Aviv, and she declares that the courtesy and assistance of everyone, from ambassadors down to the least official, proved to her without doubt how very powerful the name of England is m Europe. A copy of her book sent to Buckingham Palace was acknowledged by the Queen with her own hand, ana' her English lectures are largely attended.