Barbara
F. FieldFAIA

(1941– )

Field grew up in Atlanta GA and graduated from Druid Hills HS. She attended the University of Miami 1958-1959 and graduated from Georgia Tech in architecture in 1965. She interned for Edwards and Portman in Atlanta, working on the iconic Regency Hyatt Hotel, and John Johansen in New Canaan CT plus successor firm Christ-Janer, Johansen, Kouzmanoff. She worked for Benamin Thompson Associates 1968-1970; Earth Guild of Cambridge MA 1970-1979; Spaceplan/Architecture of Asheville NC 1981-2005, and on her own since 2005.

Field was President of AIA Asheville and served on the Board of AIA North Carolina and North Carolina Board of Architecture. In 1991, she served on the Asheville City Council for ten years and during her third term was elected Vice Mayor. Along with seven others, she owns Earth Guild, a national craft supply center selling tools, materials and books for traditional and contemporary crafts. In 1990 she and her husband bought the 1936 Art Deco Bon Marché building in downtown Asheville and renovated it for Earth Guild and other tenants. They live on the top floor.