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Phyllis Birkby (1932–1994), practicing architect, educator and proponent of women's role in architecture; Norma Bonniwell (1877–1961), worked with her father in North Carolina; India Boyer (1907–1998), first female architect in Ohio; Louise Braverman (born 1948), New York-based architect who is a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects
In 2022 Architecture + Women NZ with Massey University Press published Making Space: A History of New Zealand Women in Architecture. Edited by Elizabeth Cox and written by Cox and 30 other women architects, architectural historians and academics it makes visible the contributions to architecture in New Zealand of over 500 women. [99] [100]
Julia Morgan (January 20, 1872 – February 2, 1957) was an American architect and engineer. [1] [2] She designed more than 700 buildings in California during a long and prolific career. [3]
Gang was born in Belvidere, Illinois, [1] [2] [3] where her father was the engineer for Boone County. [4] She graduated from Belvidere High School in 1982, [4] [5] then earned a Bachelor of Science in Architecture from the University of Illinois in 1986; during her third year, she studied in Versailles, France at the École nationale supérieure d'architecture de Versailles. [6]
In 1958, women made up only 1 percent of the AIA's registered architects, and by 1988, only 4 percent. But they've come a long way in the past 25 years, now comprising nearly a quarter of the AIA ...
Only a handful of women have ever won the Pritzker Prize for Architecture, and Dame Zaha Hadid was the first in 2004. She was called the "Queen of Curves" and considered to be the greatest female ...
OWA (The Organization of Women Architects), Chicago Women in Architecture, and AWA (The Alliance of Women in Architecture) are just three organizations who developed platforms which aimed to shine a light on the challenges women encounter in the field of architecture due to discrimination, while also offering guidance and encouragement to their ...
Dame Zaha Mohammad Hadid DBE RA (Arabic: زها حديد Zahā Ḥadīd; 31 October 1950 – 31 March 2016) was an Iraqi and British architect, artist and designer, recognised as a key figure in architecture of the late-20th and early-21st centuries.