Episode 11: Margot Taulé
Margot Taulé was the first woman to become a registered engineer and architect in the Dominican Republic. She was born on August 30, 1920, in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. In 1944 she received an Engineer-Architect Degree from the University of Santo Domingo, today the Autonomous University of Santo Domingo. A year later she became a professor at the university. In 1948 she became the first woman to be a registered Engineer and Architect in the country. Under Henry Gazón Bona she worked on Hotel Maguana and Hotel Matum. In 1948, she worked on the Munne Residence in Gazcué, it is famously known as the ‘Blue House’ and an icon in Gazcué. She was a consultant for the structural development of the Fair of Peace and Fraternity of the Free World in the Dominican Republic in 1955. Throughout her career, Margot worked with many leading architects in the Dominican Republic such as Leo Pou and J. A. Caro Álvarez, and Guillermo Gonzalez. In 1966 Margot along with other professors founded the National University Pedro Henríquez Ureña. During her years in the university, she became the first woman to be dean of an architecture program in the country. She was President of the university from 2002 to 2004 making her the first and only woman to have this post at the University. After a long life of hard work and many achievements, Margot passed away on June 11, 2008.
Caryatid: Gloria Kloter, AIA
Gloria Kloter is a registered Architect and Interior Designer from the Dominican Republic and the State of Florida. She graduated from the Autonomous University of Santo Domingo. Gloria has been published and invited to be a speaker at numerous events to share her journey as a foreign architect becoming licensed in the United States. She is an Associate Director of the AIA Tampa Bay. She founded the new Women in Architecture and Young Architects Forum Tampa Bay committees, and she is the Chair of both..
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Images (in order of appearance):
Rose Marguerite (Margot) Taulé Casso. Digital Image. Revista Arquitexto. 2019 https://gramho.com/media/1995097178024307663 28 Oct 2020.
Moisset, Inés. Margot Taulé y Henry Gazón Bona, Hotel Matun. Digital Image. Un día una arquitecta. 2015. https://undiaunaarquitecta.wordpress.com/2015/05/26/margot-taule-1920-2008/ 28 Oct 2020.
Moisset, Inés. Margot Taulé, Casa Munné. Digital Image. Un día una arquitecta. 2015. https://undiaunaarquitecta.wordpress.com/2015/05/26/margot-taule-1920-2008/ 28 Oct 2020.
Morel, Diana. El Tono Azul de la Modernidad Dominicana. Digital Image. Fundación Arquia. 2017. https://fundacion.arquia.com/eu-es/mediateca/filmoteca/p/Documentales/Detalle/355?novedad=1 28 Oct 2020.
Maldonado, Persio. Congreso Nacional. Digital Image. El Nuevo Diario. 2020. 28 Oct 2020
Moisset, Inés. Margot Taulé, Casa Santos. Digital Image. Un día una arquitecta. 2015. https://undiaunaarquitecta.wordpress.com/2015/05/26/margot-taule-1920-2008/ 28 Oct 2020.
