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It includes architects that can also be found in the parent category, or in diffusing subcategories of the parent. Pages in category "British women architects" The following 100 pages are in this category, out of 100 total.
The following is a list of women architects by nationality ... Ruth Reed, first female president of the Royal Institute of British Architects, 2009–2011;
In 2012, she was made a Dame by Elizabeth II for services to architecture, and in February 2016, the month preceding her death, [13] she became the first woman to be individually awarded the Royal Gold Medal from the Royal Institute of British Architects (Ray Eames and Sheila O'Donnell had previously been awarded it jointly with Charles Eames ...
This list of British architects includes notable architects, civil engineers, and earlier stonemasons, from the United Kingdom and its predecessor states. People have also been included who were born outside the UK/Great Britain but who are primarily known for their practice within the UK.
Anne Laurence, "Women Using Building in Seventeenth-Century England: A Question of Sources?" Transactions of the Royal Historical Society (2003) Eva Alvarez and Carlos Gomez. “The Invisible Women: How Female Architects were Erased from History.” Architectural Review, 2017; Eve M. Kahn, “Maybe a Lady Taught Christopher Wren.”
Portrait of architect Elisabeth Scott, 1928. Royal Shakespeare Theatre. Elisabeth Whitworth Scott (20 September 1898 – 19 June 1972) was a British architect who designed the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre at Stratford-upon-Avon, England. This was the first important public building in Britain to be designed by a female architect. [1] [2]
Drew was born as Iris Estelle Radcliffe Drew [1] in Thornton Heath, Croydon (then part of Surrey), but her name was registered a few days later as Joyce Beverly Drew. [2] Her father, Harry Guy Radcliffe Drew (grandson of Joseph Drew), was a designer of surgical instruments and the founder of the Institute of British Surgical Technicians: he was a humanist who "despised the profit motive and ...
Wigglesworth founded her own architectural practice in 1994. [2] Her practice has a reputation for sustainable architecture using alternative, low energy materials. [3] The practice designed the Straw Bale House in Islington, London, [4] as a home for Wigglesworth and her partner, Jeremy Till, as well as an office for Sarah Wigglesworth Architects.