History:

Elizabeth Wright Ingraham Architects is a small, high service architectural firm established in 1970. Prior to that time, Ms. Ingraham was a principal with Ingraham & Ingraham, Architects.

Elizabeth Wright Ingraham was born in Oak Park, Illinois. She attended the University of California at Berkeley and Illinois Institute of Technology. She moved to Colorado Springs with her family to begin the practice of architecture in 1950.

  • Licensed architect (Colorado, Illinois)
  • NCARB (National Council of Architectural Registration Boards) certification
  • Member of the American Institute of Architects
  • Member of the AIA College of Fellows (FAIA)
  • Advisor to the Frank Lloyd Wright Home and Studio Foundation and the Frank Lloyd Wright Conservancy
  • Honorary Doctorate, University of Colorado (1995)
  • Design Juror
  • Founder and President of the Wright-Ingraham Institute
Service on Numerous Boards, Commissions and Committees Including:
  • President, AIA Colorado 2002
  • Board of Directors, Colorado Community Design Network, 2001-2002
  • Colorado State Board of Examiners of Architects 1979 to 1989
  • Consultant to U.S. Department of Energy on Alternative Energy Program
  • Denver Public Library Foundation, Board of Trustees
  • Denver Board of Education, Advisory Steering Committee
  • Institute of International Education, Board of Directors
  • Roaring Fork Resources Center, Board of Advisory Consultants
  • League of Women Voters, Board of Directors
  • Colorado Springs Symphony, Board of Directors
  • Chairperson for Citizens for Regional Planning
  • Chairperson for Colorado College Int. Affairs
  • Chairperson for Colorado College International Affairs seminars
  • Vision Task Force, University of Colorado
  • Founder of Summer Crossroads, a community/Colorado College program for foreign students
  • Co-Founder and former president of the Women's Forum of Colorado
  • Member of the International Women's Forum
  • Elected council member (6 years) town of Larkspur, CO.
  • Chairperson, Larkspur Planning Commission
  • Open Space Task Force, Colorado
  • Preservation Inc., Board of Directors Wash. D.C.
  • CHRM Board of Directors (resource management)
Selected Articles and Features:
  • ARCHITECTURAL RECORD
    February 2001.
    "Out There...Practicing Architects Outside the Centers of Fashion" pp 91, 116-119, New York City, New York
  • DESIGNER/BUILDER
    "Thoughts on a Life: Elizabeth Wright Ingraham," 2-part series
    Sante Fe, New Mexico, Jan./Feb. 1998
  • INTERNATIONAL ARCHITECTURAL YEARBOOK No. 3, ARCHITECTS OF THE MILLENNIUM 2000, and DETAILS IN ARCHITECTURE featuring architectural designs by Elizabeth Wright Ingraham Architects, The Images Publishing Group. Pty Ltd. Austrailia 1997, 2000 & 2001
  • METROPOLIS
    "Building Holistically,"
    New York City, New York, Jan./Feb. 1997; pp 76-79, 100-101
  • EMPIRE MAGAZINE of THE DENVER POST. Nov. 1996; cover and pp 14-16, 20, 23
  • INLAND ARCHITECT
    "Architecture By Women"; Chicago, Illinois, Jan/Feb. 1991
  • ALL THINGS CONSIDERED
    National Public Radio; Broadcast interview Sept. 22, 1994 with Susan Stamberg
  • YOU CAN BE A WOMAN ARCHITECT Educational Video for Discovery Channel 1999
Selected Writings Authored by Elizabeth Wright Ingraham:
  • Afterword pp 144, 145 BUILDING A LEGACY: The Restoration of Frank Lloyd Wright's Oak Park Home and Studio.
    2001, Pomegranate Press, California.
  • Addendum to My Father Who is on Earth by John Lloyd Wright; University of Southern Illinois Press, Carbondale, Illinois.
  • "Knowledge as a Manageable Resource in Educational Systems"; The Academy of Independent Scholars, University of Massachusetts Westview Press, Boulder, Colorado
  • "Lead Time for Assessing Land Use:" Science; Vol.194 No. 4260 pp. 17-22, Oct. 1, 1976
  • Query Into the Quarter Century; the output report for an interdisciplinary team addressing global food production problems of the future. Nov.1975 Kettering Foundation and the Wright-Ingraham Institute; A.B. Hirschfeld Press, Denver, Colorado.
  • Civic Design Report for the Front Range by Ingraham & Ingraham, Colorado College and Rockefeller Foundation
Selected Lectures:
  • Colorado College April 2002: "Design in America: Breaking Old Habits"; Lecture Series: "Embracing Modernity".
  • Frank Lloyd Wright Preservation Trust Lecture: "Generation to Generation", May 2002, Oak Park, Illinois
  • Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center: Ninth Front Range Symposium on The State of Feminism in Visual Culture: "Notes from the Journal of a Woman Architect", Sept. 2001
  • Milwaukee Repertory Theater 2000: "Work Song" event/talk, Wisconsin Tourism Bureau
  • AIA Wisconsin Convention 1999: "The Forward Thrust for Architects"
  • University of Colorado. UCD Convocation Speaker: "Inside the Beltway," 1998
  • AIA Annual Convention, Minneapolis
  • National Academy of Design, New York City
  • Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts, Chicago Paper: "The Avante-Guarde in Chicago's suburbs: Life and Work of William F. Deknatel"
  • Pratt Institute: "Structure and Sites, Triangles and Taxes"
  • Illinois Institute of Technology, School of Architecture: "Planning for Growth"
  • Ball State University, College of Architecture and Planning,: "Exploring Place"
  • Cranbrook Academy of Art: "Frank Lloyd Wright in the 20th Century"
  • University of Texas at Arlington: "A Query Into the Quarter Century"
  • La Jolla Athenaeum, CA. "On Being An Architect"
  • Rotary Club of Colorado Springs: "Creativity & Economic Conversion"
  • Town of Sonoma, California: "Frontiers"
  • University of Northern Colorado: "Challenging the Life of the Mind"
  • AIAS Crossroads Forum: "Ethics in Architecture"
  • Wright-Ingraham Institute: "Energy, Environment and Education"; "Food Fuel & Shelter on the Front Range, A Case Study" ; "The Building of Running Creek Field Station" at the following institutions:
    • Arizona State University
    • Arts Club, Wash. D. C.
    • University of Calif. at Berkeley
    • University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
    • University of Minnesota
    • University of Pennsylvania
    • Northwestern University
    • Oberlin College
    • Oklahoma State University
    • University of Washington
    • Yale University
  • Unity Temple and Oak Park Library
  • Tokyo, Japan "Saving Myonichikan"
  • Hong Kong International School
  • Hong Kong Institute of Architects
  • Szenshen University, "Modern American Architecture"
Travel:
  • England, France, Germany, Italy, Switzerland, Egypt, South Africa, Mozambique, Namibia, Zimbabwe, Swaziland, Mexico, Yucatan Peninsula, Hong Kong, China, Tibet
  • Institute of International Education Exchange of Persons Study Grant in Germany 1966