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This list includes all occupiable structures over 50-metre (160 ft) tall, including spires, that were designed by women in the roles of primary architect or design coordinator. Note that many of these buildings are designed by larger teams that include the female architects listed.
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 .
Sophia Hayden (1868–1953), Chilean-born American architect, first woman architecture graduate from MIT, best known for designing the Woman's Building at the World's Columbian Exposition; Margo Hebald-Heymann, 1960s graduate, contributed to Terminal One, Los Angeles International Airport; Margaret Helfand (1947–2007), own firm in New York City
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 ...
2. St. Louis Cathedral, New Orleans. A church has stood in the center of Louisiana's French Quarter’s historic Jackson Square since 1727. The current cathedral, largely restored in the mid-1800s ...
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.
In 1894, she designed a building for the Browne & Nichols School in Cambridge, Massachusetts. From 1891 to 1895, she taught architecture and historic ornament at the Philadelphia School of Design for Women, now Moore College of Art and Design. She closed her formal practice in Philadelphia in 1896 when she moved to Brooklyn with her husband ...
America's Favorite Architecture" is a list of buildings and other structures identified as the most popular works of architecture in the United States. In 2006 and 2007, the American Institute of Architects (AIA) sponsored research to identify the most popular works of architecture in the United States.