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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]
See List of female architects#United States, which may roughly correspond to this category, but may also include women who do not yet have separate Wikipedia articles (may show as wp:redlinks, or may link to architectural firms where they work) and women who have lesser associations with architecture that are not properly categorized as architects (e.g., women with an architectural degree who ...
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 ...
Norma Merrick Sklarek (April 15, 1926 – February 6, 2012) was an American architect. Sklarek was the first African American woman to become a licensed architect in the states of New York (1954) and California (1962), as well as the first Black woman to become a member of the American Institute of Architects (AIA).
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]
Mary Rockwell Hook (September 8, 1877 – September 8, 1978) was an American architect and a pioneer for women in architecture. She worked principally from Kansas City, Missouri but designed throughout the United States. She was denied admission to the American Institute of Architects (AIA) due to her gender.
Mary Louisa Page (1849–1921) was the first American woman to graduate with an accredited architecture degree in the United States. [1] [2] In 1878, she graduated from the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign with a Bachelor of Science in Architecture.