Brenda Dyer Szabo

Brenda Dyer Szabo (Beverly, Massachusetts April 18, 1926 - October 13, 2017) was an architect, planner and author known for her Modernist designs and architectural criticism.
Early life and career
Born in Beverly, Massachusetts on April 18, 1926, she graduated with a BA from Radcliffe College in 1948. She earned a Master of Architecture from the Harvard Graduate School of Design in 1951, where she studied under Walter Gropius, founder of the German Bauhaus. At Harvard, she met architect Albert Szabo, whom she married in 1951.
She was the principal at the architecture firms Szabo Associates and Soltan/Szabo, both based in Cambridge, Massachusetts. She practiced in New York, Chicago and Cambridge as well as in Kabul, Afghanistan. as well as numerous planning projects
Work in Afghanistan
She taught architecture at the University of Kabul as a Fulbright Hayes lecturer in 1974 and also worked as an architectural consultant for the American International school in Kabul.
Work at Harvard and afterward
She was a project/campus planner at Harvard University from 1975 to 1989 and was instrumental in making the campus more universally accessible. Her subjects ranged from the Japanese architect Tadao Ando to Peter Forbes in Maine

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