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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]
Although their work would most likely be classified as post-modernist architecture, Denise Scott Brown's advocation for women in architecture still applies. Cini Boeri states in the Breaking Ground: Architecture by Women book written by Jane Hall: "When I'm designing I never think about being either a woman or a man." [7] [page needed]
When Robert Venturi was named as winner of the 1991 Pritzker Architecture Prize, [16] Scott Brown did not attend the award ceremony in protest. [17] The prize organization, the Hyatt Foundation, stated that, in 1991, it honored only individual architects, a practice that changed in 2001 with the selection of Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron. [17]
Founded in 1974, the Women's School of Planning and Architecture (WSPA) was established as a private, non-profit corporation, to provide an alternative, active learning experiences for women in the environmental and design fields, including architecture, planning, urban design, housing, neighborhood development, and construction, and co ...
Jeanne Gang (born March 19, 1964) is an American architect and the founder and leader of Studio Gang (established in 1997), an architecture and urban design practice with offices in Chicago, New York, San Francisco, and Paris.
Torre, Susana. "Sophia Hayden and the Woman's Building Competition / Judith Paine,"Women in American Architecture: A Historic and Contemporary Perspective : a Publication and Exhibition Organized by the Architectural League of New York Through Its Archive of Women in Architecture. New York: Whitney Library of Design, 1977. ISBN 978-0-8230-7485-3.
Eileen Gray (born Kathleen Eileen Moray Smith; 9 August 1878 – 31 October 1976) was an Irish interior designer, furniture designer and architect who became a pioneer of the Modern Movement in architecture.