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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 .
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.
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
Women may not always get the historical credit their male counterparts do, but as these women show, they were always there doing the work. With their fierce determination and refusal to back down, all of these 12 women were not just ahead of their own times, but responsible for shaping ours.
Anna May Wong a.k.a. Wong Liu Tsong. Wong was the first Chinese American movie star, both in Hollywood and internationally, and the first Asian American woman to receive a star on the Hollywood ...
This list of famous African American women to know in 2024 includes singers, actors, athletes, entrepreneurs, politicians and more inspiring modern Black women.
Data from the Fees Bureau in November 2010 showed, however, that only 19% of professional architects were women, a drop of 5% since 2008. [115] United States. In 2009, the United States National Architectural Accrediting Board reported that 41% of architecture graduates were women, with this number rising to 51% of graduates by 2021. [116]
See List of female architects#United States, which may roughly correspond to this category, but may also include women who do not yet have separate Wikipedia articles (may show as wp:redlinks, or may link to architectural firms where they work) and women who have lesser associations with architecture that are not properly categorized as architects (e.g., women with an architectural degree who ...