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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. [98] [99]
Lily Isabel Maude Addison (1885–1968), early female architect in Queensland. Ruth Alsop (1879–1976), first woman qualified as an architect in the state of Victoria. Brit Andresen, [7] Norwegian-born, first woman in Australia to be awarded the RAIA Gold Medal. Emma Appleton, Australian landscape architect and urban designer.
The IAWA collects the papers of women who practiced at a time when there were few women in the field (i.e., before the 1950s) and to fill serious gaps in the availability of primary research materials for architectural, women's, and social history research. As of October 2006 there were over 1,200 cubic feet (34 m 3) of materials in the 298 ...
Mary Elizabeth Jane Colter (April 4, 1869 – January 8, 1958) was an American architect and designer. She was one of the very few female American architects in her day. She was the designer of many landmark buildings and spaces for the Fred Harvey Company and the Santa Fe Railroad, notably in Grand Canyon National Park.
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.
Beverly Willis FAIA (February 17, 1928 – October 1, 2023) was an American architect who played a major role in the development of many architectural concepts and practices that influenced the design of American cities and architecture. [1] Willis' achievements in the development of new technologies in architecture, [2] urban planning, public ...
Louise Blanchard Bethune (July 21, 1856 – December 18, 1913) [1] was the first American woman known to have worked as a professional architect. She was born in Waterloo, New York. Blanchard worked primarily in Buffalo, New York and partnered with her husband at Bethune, Bethune & Fuchs. Her biggest project was the Hotel Lafayette, including ...
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.