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MIT. Known for. Woman's Building at the World's Columbian Exposition in 1892. Scientific career. Fields. Architecture. Sophia Hayden (October 17, 1868 – February 3, 1953) was an American architect and first female graduate of the four-year program [1] in architecture at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Women in architecture have been documented for many centuries, as professional (or amateur) practitioners, educators and clients. Since architecture became organized as a profession in 1857, the number of women in architecture has been low. At the end of the 19th century, starting in Finland, certain schools of architecture in Europe began to ...
Women architects and designers in the present. There are a number of women in architecture who have continued and extended upon the work of women in modernism, like Tatiana Bilbao, Zaha Hadid, Jeanne Gang, Kazuyo Sejima, Odile Decq, Maya Lin, Elizabeth Diller, Farshid Moussavi, Toshiko Mori, Elizabeth Diller, Sofia von Ellrichshausen, among others.
Kathryn H. Anthony is an American professor of architecture, author and spokesperson specializing in gender issues in architecture. She is a Distinguished Professor from the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA) lifetime laureate. Her research has earned national awards from the American Institute of Architects and the ...
Susana Torre. Susana Torre (born 1944) is an Argentine-born American architect, critic and educator, based in New York City (1968–2008) and in Carboneras, Almeria, Spain (since 2009). Torre has developed a career that combined “theoretical concerns with the actual practice of building” [ 1] and architectural and urban design with teaching ...
Maya Ying Lin (Chinese: 林瓔; born October 5, 1959) is an American architect, designer and sculptor. Born in Athens, Ohio to Chinese immigrants, she attended Yale University to study architecture. In 1981, while still an undergraduate at Yale she achieved national recognition when she won a national design competition for the planned Vietnam ...
Julia Morgan. 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] She is best known for her work on Hearst Castle in San Simeon, California. [4]
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 Architecture (AIA). [1][2][3][4] Her notable ...