Inge Horton: Finding My Place in the World • May 27, 2018

Inge Schaefer Horton was born in Hannover, Germany, and grew up in Hamburg and North Rhine-Westphalia during, and after, World War II.

After graduation, Inge studied architecture at the Technical Universities of Hannover and Berlin, where approximately 10% of students were women. After graduating as a Diplom Ingenieur in 1965, Inge worked at the TU Berlin as a Research Associate, and wrote her first book, Early Modern Architecture in Berlin.

Her marriage to U.S. American engineer, Marvin Horton, led them to live in Italy and Saudi Arabia, before settling in the United States in 1969. As a re-entry student, with two young daughters, she earned a Master’s degree in City and Regional Planning at the UC Berkeley. Inge worked as a city planner with a private company and the planning departments of the cities of San Jose and San Francisco.

After retiring, Inge pursued her passion for researching the history of women architects, and published Early Women Architects of the San Francisco Bay Area - The Lives and Work of Fifty Professionals, 1890-1951, in 2010. Living in San Francisco and traveling to Europe and Asia bring her great pleasure..

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