Wilks, Barbara, interviewee. Filkins, Sarah K., interviewer. Occupational Folklife Project, sponsor. sound recording Sound recordings. lcgft Digital photographs Color 2010-2020. gmgpc Interviews. lcgft Oral histories. lcgft Personal narratives. lcgft eng Barbara Wilks, FAIA, an architect and landscape architect, discusses her journey as principal and owner of Cho Wilks and Benn in Baltimore, Maryland, and later of W Architecture and Landscape Architecture in New York City. She talks about being one of a handful of women architectural students at Cornell University; and how, with classmate and future business partner Diane Cho, she moved to Baltimore where she rose to prominence in the early urban redevelopment and revitalization movement--specializing in redeveloping industrial buildings for housing, and creating new retail, office, and restaurant spaces in historic structures. She discusses the challenges of balancing her architectural career and with family obligations; and her decision, after 20 years in Baltimore, to pursue a master's degree in landscape architecture in Philadelphia and then establish a new practice as a landscape architect in New York City. Since 1999 head of the influential firm W-Architecture, she discusses designing projects throughout the America that focus on harmonizing built with natural environments. In recognition of her contributions, she talks about feeling honored to being invited to join both the American Institute of Architects' College of Fellows and the American Society of Landscape Architects' Fellows. Recorded at the office of W Architecture and Landscape Architecture, New York, New York, March 10, 2020. Women architects : Archie Green Fellows Project, 2019-2020 (AFC 2019/031: 06001) Archive of Folk Culture, American Folklife Center, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. To honor the memory of Archie Green (1917-2009), a fellowship program was established at the American Folklife Center in 2010. Archie Green Fellowships support new research in the contemporary culture and traditions of American workers. Wilks, Barbara--Interviews. Architecture. Mentoring. Sex discrimination in employment. Vernacular architecture. Work-life balance. Working mothers. Public welfare. Housing. Waterfronts. Career changes. Women architects--Interviews. Women architects--New York (State)--New York. Women architects : Archie Green Fellows Project, 2019-2020 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.afc/afc2019031.afc2019031_06001_sr01 Collection is open for research. To request materials, please contact the Folklife Reading Room at Duplication of collection materials may be governed by copyright and other restrictions.