List of women architects

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The following is a list of women architects by nationality – notable women who are well known for their work in the field of architecture.

Africa[]

Egypt[]

• Shahira Fahmy (born 1974), founded her own firm in 2005

Kenya[]

• Eugenie Dorothy Hughes (1910–1987), first Kenyan and first East African female architect
• Erica Mann (1917–2007), town planner and architect, Architect Laureate
• Emma Miloyo (born 1981), partner in Design Source in Nairobi, first female President of the Architectural Association of Kenya (AAK)

Niger[]

• Mariam Kamara (born 1979), Nigerien and founder of the architecture and research firm Atelier Masomi

Nigeria[]

• Olajumoke Adenowo (born 1968), described as "the face of architecture in Nigeria"^[1]
• Fifi Ejindu, architect, businesswoman, philanthropist

South Africa[]

• Sarah Calburn (born 1964), own practice, residential projects and Johannesburg's Gallery MOMO
• Sophia Gray (1814–1871), first female architect in South Africa
• Linda Mvusi (born c. 1955), actress, architect, owns her own firm
• Kate Otten (born 1964), own practice, community libraries, the waterfront development at Tzaneen
• Anya van der Merwe, Cape Town architect
• Nadia Tromp (born 1977), own practice, healthcare clinics, residential homes and community centres

Uganda[]

• Assumpta Nnaggenda-Musana (born 1970), architect, urban planner and academic

Zambia[]

• Denise Scott Brown^[2] (born 1931), born in Northern Rhodesia; educated in South Africa and London; lives and works in the US

Asia[]

Armenia[]

• Anna Ter-Avetikian (1908–2013), first Armenian woman to become an architect

Azerbaijan[]

• Gulnara Mehmandarova (born 1959), researcher in connection with UNESCO sites

Bangladesh[]

• Khaleda Ekram (1950–2016), architect, educator, researcher
• Marina Tabassum

China[]

• Huang Hui
• Lin Huiyin (1904–1955), first known Chinese female architect
• Jing Liu (born 1981), co-founder of the New York design office SO-IL
• Lu Wenyu, whose husband Wang Shu won the Priztker Prize for the work the duo completed together in their firm (and whose sole attribution of the prize generated some controversy^[3])

India[]

• Eulie Chowdhury (1923–1995), first woman to qualify as an architect in Asia
• Shimul Javeri Kadri (born 1962), own firm in Mumbai
• Revathi Kamath (1955–2020), pioneer of mud architecture
• Anupama Kundoo (born 1967), innovative architect working in Auroville
• Pravina Mehta (c.1924–c.1990), urban planner and architect
• Perin Jamsetjee Mistri (1913–1989), believed to be the first woman to graduate in architecture in India
• Sheila Sri Prakash (born 1955), first woman in India to have started her own architectural firm
• Sonali Rastogi (born 1967), founding partner of Morphogenesis
• Samira Rathod (born 1963), architect, furniture designer, educator, own partnership since 1995
• Brinda Somaya (born 1949), UNESCO prize for restoring St. Thomas Cathedral, Mumbai
• Chitra Vishwanath, established her own firm in 1991, working in India and Africa

Indonesia[]

• Elora Hardy (born 1980) is a Canadian-Indonesian architect who uses bamboo.

Iran[]

• Farshid Moussavi (born 1965), Iranian-British founder of Farshid Moussavi Architecture
• Nasrine Seraji (born 1957), Iranian-British founder of Atelier Searaji Architects & head of Department of Architecture, University of Hong Kong

Iraq[]

• Dame Zaha Hadid^[2] (1950–2016), Iraqi-British; founder of Zaha Hadid Architects in London; first woman to win the Pritzker Prize

Israel[]

• Lotte Cohn (1898–1983), German born; pioneering figure in Israeli architecture
• Dora Gad (1912–2003), influential interior designer
• Ada Karmi-Melamede (born 1936), Supreme Court of Israel, numerous educational buildings
• Nitza Metzger-Szmuk (born 1945), conservation work in Tel Aviv
• Shulamit Nadler (1923–2016), designed National Library of Israel and Jerusalem Theatre
• Rivka Oxman, academic

Japan[]

• Itsuko Hasegawa (born 1941), own firm since 1979
• Masako Hayashi (1928–2001), first woman to win Architectural Institute of Japan Award
• Toshiko Mori (born 1951), first woman to receive tenure at Harvard GSD
• Nobuko Nakahara (1929–2008), founded , association of female architects
• Kazuyo Sejima (born 1956), co-founder of SANAA,^[2] Pritzker prize winner in 2010
• Nobuko Tsuchiura (1900–1998), first woman architect in Japan

Jordan[]

• Abeer Seikaly (born 1979)

Lebanon[]

• Amale Andraos (born 1972/1973), dean of the Columbia Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation

Mongolia[]

• Biambasuren Luvsandamdingiin (born 1955), urban planner

Nepal[]

• Hisila Yami (born 1959), also a government minister

Pakistan[]

• Yasmeen Lari (born circa 1941), the country's first female architect

Palestine[]

• Suad Amiry (born 1951), author and architect
• Khouloud Daibes (born 1965), architect and former politician and diplomat

Saudi Arabia[]

• Nadia Bakhurji, interior architect, holds several administrative positions

Singapore[]

• Cheong Koon Hean (born 1957), award-winning urban planner and architect^[4]

Sri Lanka[]

• Minnette de Silva (1918–1998), first Sri Lankan female architect

Taiwan[]

• Xiu Zelan (1925–2016), Taiwan's first female architect

Thailand[]

• Patama Roonrakwit, practising architect, focus on under-privileged housing

Turkey[]

• Altuğ Çinici (born 1935)
• Mualla Eyüboğlu (1919–2009)
• Zeynep Fadıllıoğlu (born 1955), redesigned Istanbul's Şakirin Mosque to wide international acclaim

Australasia[]

Australia[]

• 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,^[5] Norwegian-born, first woman in Australia to be awarded the RAIA Gold Medal
• Emma Appleton, Australian landscape architect and urban designer
• Beverley Bolin (born 1923), the first woman to become a registered architect in South Australia.
• Eva Buhrich (1915–1976), architect, editor and writer who migrated from Germany
• Karen Burns (born 1962), architectural historian, theorist, activist and educator
• Stroma Buttrose (1929–2020), first female Planning Assistant in South Australia
• Kerry Clare, architect and joint recipient of the Australian Institute of Architects Gold Medal
• Justine Clark, New Zealand-born architectural editor, writer, speaker and researcher
• Louise Cox (born 1939), architect, Officer of the Order of Australia for services to architecture
• Eleanor Cullis-Hill (1913–2001), Sydney architect
• Suzanne Dance, Melbourne-based architect
• Maggie Edmond (born 1946), principal at Melbourne-based Edmond and Corrigan
• Rosina Edmunds (1900–1956), architect, urban planner and writer
• Harriet Edquist (born 1940s), architectural historian, educator and writer
• Zahava Elenberg (born 1973), co-director of Elenberg Fraser
• Cassandra Fahey (born circa 1972), architect and interior designer
• Elizabeth Farrelly (born 1957), architecture critic, author and columnist
• Margaret Feilman (1921–2013), Perth architect and town planner
• Margaret Findlay (1916–2007), first female in Tasmania to qualify as an associate of the Royal Australian Institute of Architects
• Abbie Galvin (born 1970), principal of BVN Architecture
• Jill Garner, principal of Garner Davis, Associate Government Architect, Office of the Victorian Government Architect
• Eli Giannini (born 1956), architect; director of McGauran Giannini Soon; Life Fellow of the Australian Institute of Architects
• Eileen Good (1893–1986), Australia's first female architecture academic
• Elizabeth Grant (born 1963), architectural anthropologist, research in indigenous architecture
• Kristin Green, director of KGA Architecture
• Marion Mahony Griffin (1871–1961), one of the first registered female architects in the world
• Winsome Hall Andrew (1905–1997)
• Laura Harding (born 1975), practitioner and critic
• Ellison Harvie (1902–1984), first Australian woman to graduate with a Diploma of Architectural Design; first female Fellow of the Royal Victorian Institute of Architects; first woman elected to an Australian Architectural Institute council; first Australian woman to become a partner in a large firm
• Beatrice Hutton (1893–1990), first female architect accepted into an Institute of Architects in Australia
• Sandra Kaji-O'Grady (born 2000), professor and head of architecture at the University of Queensland
• Louise St John Kennedy (born 1950), practices in Claremont, Western Australia
• Helen Lochhead, architect and urban designer
• Ruth Lucas (1924–2001), works with her husband Bill Lucas, known for the Glass House in Castlecrag, New South Wales
• Kirsteen Mackay, South Australian Government architect
• Kooi-Ying Mah (born 1950), architect, designer, and principal of Kooi-Ying Architects
• Gill Matthewson, academic, researcher and architect
• Nellie McCredie (1903–1968), Australian architect and potter
• Alison Mears, dean of the School of Design Strategies at Parsons The New School for Design
• Margaret Pitt Morison (1900–1985), early female architect in Western Australia
• Elina Mottram (1903–1996), British-born, Queensland's first and longest practicing female architect
• Phyllis Murphy (1924–2004), architect known for the 1956 Olympic Pool in Melbourne (with John Murphy) along with conservation projects
• Andrea Nield (born 1951), founded Emergency Architects Australia
• Rachel Nolan (born 1974), a founding director of Kennedy Nolan, a Melbourne-based practice
• Ellice Nosworthy (1897–1972), early female architect in New South Wales
• Alexis Ord, architect, activist and Melbourne's first female Lord Mayor
• Shelley Penn (born 1965), architect, urbanist and advocate
• Christine Phillips, academic, architect, advocate
• Susan Phillips (born 1958), award-winning second-generation architect based in Adelaide
• Caroline Pidcock (born 1962), advocate of sustainable development, based in Sydney
• Kelly Rattigan, founder and managing director of Formworks Architecture
• Dimity Reed (born 1942), first female president of Royal Australian Institute of Architects (Victoria); founding member of the Association of Women in Architecture
• Sarah Lynn Rees
• Louise St John Kennedy (born 1950), West Australian architect, recipient of the 1984 Robin Boyd Award
• Penelope Seidler (born 1938), director of Sydney-based Harry Seidler and associates
• Mary Turner Shaw (1906–1990), pioneering female architect
• Naomi Stead (born 1975), architectural academic, critic and writer
• Muriel Stott (1889–1985), probably the first woman with her own architectural firm in Australia
• Florence Mary Taylor (1879–1969), born in England but emigrated as a child; Australia's first qualified female architect
• Jennifer Taylor (1935-2015), architect, professor, critic and author
• Cynthia Teague MBE (1906–2007), pioneering Australian architect and public servant
• Kerstin Thompson (born 1965), Melbourne-based architect; professor of design at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand
• Yvonne von Hartel (born 1943), co-founder of the urban planning firm Peckvonhartel
• Suzannah Waldron, a founding director of the Melbourne-based architectural practice Searle x Waldron
• Cindy Walters (born 1963), active in London at Walters & Cohen
• Emma Young (born 1971), director of Phooey

New Zealand[]

• Kate Beath (1882–1979), probably the first female architect in New Zealand
• Gill Matthewson (fl. from 1984), architect, educator, writer
• Megan Wraight (1961-2020), New Zealand landscape architect

Europe[]

Albania[]

• Valentina Pistoli (1928-1993), first Albanian female architect

Austria[]

• Maria Auböck (born 1951), architect, educator, specializing in landscape architecture
• Ella Briggs (1880–1977), early Austrian female architect and interior decorator
• Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky (1897–2000), first Austrian female architect
• Lilia Skala (1896–1994), graduated in and practiced architecture before becoming an actress in the United States
• Laura P. Spinadel (born 1958), principal at BUSarchitektur
• Silja Tillner (born 1960), principal at Architekten Tillner & Willinger
• Liane Zimbler (1892–1987), possibly the first European woman to graduate in architecture, in Austria; practiced in the United States from 1938 to age 90

Belarus[]

• Lyubow Usava (born 1921), state architect who helped restore the Minsk after WWII

Belgium[]

• Christine Conix (born 1955)
• Simone Guilissen (1916–1996), early female practitioner; built residential villas and a large sports centre
• Dita Roque-Gourary (1915–2010)

Bosnia and Herzegovina[]

• Dijana Alić (born 195?), architect and academic living in Australia
• Vesna Bugarski (1930–1992), first female architect in Bosnia-Herzegovina^[6]
• Selma Harrington (born 1955), interior design, president of the Architects' Council of Europe

Bulgaria[]

• Victoria Angelova (1902–1947), built the first modern, national art gallery in the Balkans
• Milka Bliznakov (1927–2010), founder of the International Archive of Women in Architecture^[7]
• Maria Luisa Doseva-Georgieva (1894–1975), the second licensed woman architect in Bulgaria (after Elena Markova, who did not practice after obtaining her license)^[8]
• Dina Stancheva (born 1925), 1985 recipient of the Gold Badge of the Bulgarian Union of Architects

Croatia[]

• Rajka Vali (1926–2011), also pop singer

Czech Republic[]

• Eva Jiřičná (born 1939), moved from Czechoslovakia to London in 1968^[5][9]
• Věra Machoninová (born 1928)
• Milada Petříková-Pavlíková (1895–1985), first female architect in Czechoslovakia

Denmark[]

• Pia Bech Mathiesen (1962–2016), designer, executive, head of the Universe science amusement park
• Ellen Braae (born 1965), landscape architect, educator
• Karen Clemmensen (1917–2001), functionalist educational institutions
• Inger Exner (born 1926), partnership with her husband Johannes, churches and restoration
• Mette Kynne Frandsen (born 1960), CEO of Henning Larsen Architects
• Ragna Grubb (1903–1961), one of the first to have her own business
• Gunver Hansen (born 1943), architect specializing in lighting design
• Malene Hauxner (1942–2012), modernist landscape architecture
• Anna Maria Indrio (born 1943), architect with C. F. Møller
• Kristine Jensen (born 1956), landscape architect
• Helle Juul (born 1954), urban planning
• Bodil Kjær (born 1932), interior design and office furniture
• Hanne Kjærholm (1930–2009), own firm, professor at Danish Academy
• Signe Kongebro (born 1972), partner at Henning Larsen Architects with responsibility for sustainability
• Eva Koppel (1916–2006), Brutalist-style public buildings
• Mette Lange (graduated 1990), mobile schools for nomad children in Goa
• Dorte Mandrup-Poulsen (born 1961), own practice in Copenhagen
• Elna Møller (1913–1994), principal editor of Danmarks Kirker
• Lise Roel (born 1928), based in Halmstad, Sweden
• Lene Tranberg (born 1956), since 2000: high-profile buildings in Copenhagen
• Susanne Ussing (1940–1998), experimental approaches with new materials
• Lone Wiggers (born 1963), partner at C. F. Møller Architects

Estonia[]

• Yoko Alender (born 1979), architect, civil servant and politician
• Dora Gordine (1895–1991), Estonian-born sculptor, architect, active in England, remembered for Dorich House
• Katrin Koov (born 1973), large public projects since 2000
• Marika Lõoke (born 1951), office buildings
• Margit Mutso (born 1966), apartment buildings
• Erika Nõva (1905–1987), Estonia's first female architect
• Maarja Nummert (born 1944), schools
• Valve Pormeister (1922–2002), highly influential in Soviet era
• Mai Šein (born 1946), housing and university addition, has own business
• Hilda Taba (1902–1967), took up work in New York City because Tartu University would not employ a woman
• Meeli Truu (1946–2013), active in Tallinn
• Veronika Valk (born 1976), various large buildings, also lectures widely
• Siiri Vallner (born 1972), installations and various building projects

Finland[]

• Aino Aalto (1894–1949), first wife of Alvar Aalto using the Functionalist style, later turning to interiors
• Elissa Aalto (1922–1994), second wife of Alvar Aalto, with whom she designed the opera house in Essen
• Elsa Arokallio (1892–1982), after her husband died, ran her own business
• Elsi Borg (1893–1958), after graduating in 1919, designed a hospital and a church
• Elna Kiljander (1889–1970), early female architect active in Functionalism
• Hilda Hongell (1867–1952), possibly the first woman in Finland to run her own practice
• Signe Hornborg (1862–1916), possibly the first qualified female architect in the world
• Eva Kuhlefelt-Ekelund (1892–1984)
• Kristiina Lassus (born 1966), designer
• Wivi Lönn (1872–1966), several notable buildings; first woman to be granted title of professor by Finnish Association
• Martta Martikainen-Ypyä (1904–1992), designed many public buildings alone or with husband Ragnar Ypyä
• Raili Pietilä (born 1926), closely cooperated with husband Raili Pietilä
• Kaija Siren (1920–2001), worked with her husband Heikki Siren

France[]

• Katherine Briçonnet (ca. 1494–1526), supervised the construction of Château de Chenonceau
• Iwona Buczkowska (born 1953), award-winning architect and urban planner
• Anne Debarre (born 1957), academic and researcher
• Odile Decq (born 1955), award-winning architect
• Anne Démians (born mid–1960s), established her own firm in Paris in 2004
• Elizabeth de Portzamparc, award-winning French-Brazilian architect
• Françoise Fromonot (born 1958), architectural critic
• Catherine Furet (born 1954), specializes in social housing
• Renée Gailhoustet (born 1929), social housing in Paris suburbs
• Manuelle Gautrand (born 1961), versatile modern architect working in many areas
• Dominique Gauzin-Müller (born 1960), architect and architectural critic
• Édith Girard (1949–2014), practicing architect in the area of social housing
• Pascale Guédot (born 1960), awarded the Prix de l'Équerre d'Argent
• Solange d'Herbez de la Tour (born 1924)^[5]
• Françoise-Hélène Jourda (1955-2015), educator and proponent of sustainable architecture
• Anne Lacaton (born 1955), French architect and educator, co-founder of Lacaton & Vassal
• Marine Miroux (born 1977), French architect working in Berlin
• Charlotte Perriand (1903–1999), visionary designer and architect who inspired Le Corbusier
• Edith Schreiber-Aujame (1919–1998), Franco-American architect and urban planner
• Marion Tournon-Branly (1924–2016)
• Corinne Vezzoni (born 1964), awarded the Prix Femmes Architectes

Germany[]

• Karola Bloch (1905–1994), emigrated to Vienna, Paris, Prague and New York before returning to Germany
• Elisabeth Böhm (1921–2012), wife of the better known Gottfried Böhm
• Eva Buhrich (1915–1976), architectural commentator in Australia
• Brigitte D'Ortschy (1921–1990), architect, journalist, Zen master
• Kristin Feireiss (born 1942), architect, curator, writer, active in the Netherlands
• Charlotte Frank (born 1959), partner with Axel Schultes, Berlin
• Dörte Gatermann (born 1956), Triangle Tower in Cologne
• Anna Heringer (born 1977), award-winning proponent of sustainable architecture
• Lucy Hillebrand (1906–1997), latterly educational buildings
• Margrit Kennedy (1939–2013), specializing in ecological building techniques
• Anna Klingmann (born 1965), theorist of brandism, the connection of branding and architecture
• Sigrid Kressmann-Zschach (1929–1990), first shopping mall in Germany
• Brigitte Peterhans (born 1928), worked on many renowned buildings internationally, including the Sears Tower, Chicago
• Lilly Reich (1885–1947), Bauhaus-trained, German modernist designer, interior architect
• Lou Scheper-Berkenkamp (1901–1976), Bauhaus-trained, architectural colorist
• Thekla Schild (1890–1991), Germany's second female architectural graduate
• Barbara Schock-Werner (born 1947), Cologne Cathedral
• Maria Schwarz (1921–2018), architect best known for designing churches
• Annabelle Selldorf (born early 1960s), founded her own agency in New York
• Lotte Stam-Beese (1903–1988), Bauhaus-trained, helped with the post-war reconstruction of Rotterdam
• Judith Stolzer-Segall (1904–1990), first female architect to design a synagogue
• Gerdy Troost (1904–2003), Nazi architecture projects
• Emilie Winkelmann (1875–1951), Germany's first independent female architect

Greece[]

• Alexandra Paschalidou-Moreti (1912–2010), designed pavilions for international exhibitions

Hungary[]

• Eva Vecsei (born 1930), see Canada

Iceland[]

• Högna Sigurðardóttir (1929–2017), first woman to design a building in Iceland

Ireland[]

• Angela Brady (born c. 1957), elected president of the UK's Royal Institute of British Architects in 2011
• Yvonne Farrell (born 1951), co-founder of award-winning Grafton Architects in Dublin
• Eileen Gray (1878–1976), lived and worked primarily in France
• Selma Harrington (born 1955), see Bosnia and Herzegovina
• Róisín Heneghan, co-founder of Heneghan Peng Architects
• Shelley McNamara (born 1952), co-founder of award-winning Grafton Architects in Dublin
• Caroline O'Donnell (born c. 1974), winner of MoMA PS1 Young Architects Program (New York) 2013
• Sheila O'Donnell (born 1953), co-founder of O’Donnell + Tuomey Architects; designed several award-winning buildings around Dublin

Italy[]

• Paola Antonelli (born 1963), senior curator of the department of architecture & design at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York City
• Gae Aulenti (1927–2012), architect, interior designer and industrial designer
• Lina Bo Bardi (1914–1992), moved to Brazil after the war and became a naturalized Brazilian citizen^[10]
• Cini Boeri (1924–2020), architect, interior designer and industrial designer
• Plautilla Bricci (1616–1690), architect and painter in and near Rome
• Maria Hadfield Cosway (1760–1838) amateur architect, patron, and painter
• Anna Castelli Ferrieri (1918–2006), architect and industrial designer
• Alessandra Cianchetta (born 1971), founding partner of AWP Paris, large-scale urban redevelopment
• Silvana De Stefano, architect and sculptor
• Stefania Filo Speziale (1905–1988), first woman to graduate from an architecture program in Naples
• Doriana Mandrelli Fuksas (born 1944), founding partner of Fuksas Studio in Rome
• Giulia Guarino (1897–1985), Italian/Uruguayan architect first Latin American woman to graduate with a degree in architecture in 1923
• Franca Helg (1920–1989), architect and designer
• Anna Maria Indrio (born 1943), see Denmark
• Elena Luzzatto (1900–1983), first woman to graduate from an architecture program in Italy
• Rosaria Piomelli (born 1937), architect and academic
• Teresa Sapey (born 1962), own studio in Madrid, also academic
• Afra Scarpa (1937–2011), of Afra and Tobia Scarpa
• Benedetta Tagliabue (born 1963), based in Barcelona, Spain
• Paola Viganò (born 1961), got awarded a Gold Medal for Italian Architecture for her career in 2018
• Lauretta Vinciarelli (1943–2011), artist, architect, educator

Luxembourg[]

• Tatiana Fabeck (born 1970), large-scale university development
• Arlette Schneiders (born late 1950s), first woman in Luxembourg to have her own firm

Malta[]

• Isabelle Barratt-Delia (born 1938), first Maltese female architect

Montenegro[]

• Svetlana Kana Radević (1937–2000), first Montenegrin female architect

Netherlands[]

• Fleur Agema (born 1976), politician, former spatial designer
• Caroline Bos (born 1959), co-founder of UNStudio, an award-winning architecture firm in Amsterdam
• Luzia Hartsuyker-Curjel (1926–2011), German-born Dutch architect remembered for her innovative housing designs
• Francine Houben (born 1955), founding partner of Mecanoo; visiting professor at Harvard University
• Barbara Kuit (born 1998), co-founder of Information Based Architecture
• Judith Ledeboer (1901–1990), see United Kingdom
• Han Schröder (1918–1992), after establishing her own firm in Amsterdam, emigrated to the United States where she taught interior design
• Margaret Staal-Kropholler (1891–1966), first woman architect in the Netherlands
• Nathalie de Vries (born 1965), co-founder of MVRDV
• Tonny Zwollo (born 1942), built 35 schools in Oaxaca, Mexico and the largest open air market in South America, in Ecuador
• Liesbeth van der Pol (born 1959), co-founder Dok architecten

Norway[]

• Kari Nissen Brodtkorb (born 1942), architect and educator, Houen Foundation Award for Stranden housing complex in Oslo
• Lilla Hansen (1872–1962), Norway's first female architect
• Kristin Jarmund (born 1954), runs her own business, Kristin Jarmund Arkitekter
• Hjørdis Grøntoft Raknerud (1878–1918), early Norwegian female architect
• Kirsten Sand (1895–1996), first woman to graduate in architecture from the Norwegian Institute of Technology
• Wenche Selmer (1920–1998), specialized in timber residential projects in the south of Norway
• Kirsten Sinding-Larsen (1898–1978), designed Sunnaas Hospital

Poland[]

• Barbara Bielecka (born 1931), designed the Basilica of Our Lady of Licheń, Poland's largest church
• Karola Bloch (1905–1994), worked in Austria, the United States and Germany
• Barbara Brukalska (1899–1980), Functionalist architect, educator
• Adrienne Górska (1899–1969), Russian-born Polish architect working in Paris
• Jadwiga Grabowska-Hawrylak (1920–2018), first woman to be awarded the Honorary Award of the Association of Polish Architects (SARP)

Portugal[]

• Maria José Marques da Silva (1914–1996), first female architecture graduate from Porto's School of Fine Arts

Romania[]

• Maria Cotescu (1896–1980), one of the first women architects of Romania; built the National railway industrial complex
• Henrieta Delavrancea (1897–1987), one of the first female architects admitted to the Superior School of Architecture in Bucharest
• Virginia Andreescu Haret (1894–1962), first female graduate in architecture and first female Romanian Architectural Inspector General
• Anca Petrescu (1949–2013), architect and politician

Russia[]

• Nina Aleshina (1924–2012), designer of 19 stations of the Moscow Metro and head of the Metrogiprotrans design department, 1981–1991
• Galina Balashova (born 1931), architect and designer associated with the Soviet space program
• Adrienne Górska (1899–1969), born in Moscow of Polish extraction, early female graduate in Paris (1924) where she worked in the Art Deco style
• Tamara Katsenelenbogen (1894–1976), constructivist architect and urban planner
• Dita Roque-Gourary (1915–2010), see Belgium
• Rachel Bernstein Wischnitzer (1885–1989), born in the Russian Empire, moved to the U.S. in 1940

Serbia[]

• Ksenija Bulatović (born 1967), educational and commercial buildings, also academic
• Jelisaveta Načić (1878–1955), first female architect in Serbia
• Jovanka Bončić-Katerinić (1887–1966), 1st woman engineer in Germany
• Ljiljana Bakić (born 1939), designed the award-winning Aleksandar Nikolić Hall
• Ivanka Raspopović (1930–2015), designed the award-winning Museum of Contemporary Art
• Milica Šterić (1914–1998), head of Energoprojekt’s architecture department
• Maja Vidaković Lalić (born 1972), designed the Supermarket Store in Belgrade, founder of the Mikser Festival
• Olja Ivanjicki (1931–2009), artist in sculpture, poetry, design, architecture and writing
• Dubravka Sekulić (born 1980), architectural researcher and theorist

Slovenia[]

• Marjetica Potrč (born 1953), installations, research

Spain[]

• Roser Amadó (born 1944), architect working in Barcelona
• Margarita Brender Rubira (1919–2002), Romanian-born architect active in Barcelona
• Ángela García de Paredes (born 1958), co-founded the Paredes Pedrosa studio
• Matilde Ucelay Maortúa (1912–2008), first woman licensed in architecture in Spain
• Fuensanta Nieto (born 1957), partner of Nieto Sobejano Arquitectos
• Carme Pigem (born 1962), a member of the Pritzker Prize-winning architectural firm RCR Arquitectes
• Carme Pinós (born 1954)
• Beatriz Ramo (born 1979), Spanish architect working in the Dutch city of Rotterdam
• Benedetta Tagliabue (born 1963), see Italy
• Patricia Urquiola (born 1961), working in Milan, Italy since 1990
• Elisa Valero (born 1971), architect and professor

Sweden[]

• Anna Branzell (1895–1983), Norwegian-born Swedish architect, first woman to graduate in architecture in Sweden
• Léonie Geisendorf (1914–2016), Polish-born Swedish architect working in Stockholm
• Mia Hägg (born 1970), her firm, Habiter Autrement, is based in Paris
• Margit Hall (1901–1937), first woman in Sweden to graduate in architecture as an ordinary student
• Agnes Magnell (1878–1966), first woman accepted to the architecture program at the Royal Institute of Technology; was not allowed to graduate since she was accepted on exception; designed the water tower in Sala in 1903^[11]
• Greta Magnusson-Grossman (1906–1999), furniture designer and architect
• Pernilla Ohrstedt (born 1980), London-based Swedish architect
• Brita Snellman (1901–1978), first woman to graduate in architecture at the Royal Institute of Technology, in 1924
• Hillevi Svedberg (1910–1990), remembered for collective housing interiors
• Inga Varg (born 1952), urban planning, interior design and architecture
• Ingeborg Wærn Bugge (1899–1991), early Swedish graduate, residential buildings, schools, renovation

Switzerland[]

• Angela Deuber (born 1975), architect, educator
• Annette Gigon (born 1959), architect, educator
• Lux Guyer (1894–1955), architect behind the SAFFA women's fair in Bern
• Inès Lamunière (born 1954), architect, educator, editor
• Gret Loewensberg (born 1943), works in domestic architecture
• Berta Rahm (1910–1998), architect, writer, publisher
• Flora Ruchat-Roncati (1937–2012), first woman professor and chair of Architecture and Design at ETH Zurich
• Flora Steiger-Crawford (1899–1991), first Swiss woman to graduate in architecture

Turkey[]

• Leman Tomsu (1913–1988), one of the first Turkish women to qualify as an architect in 1934

United Kingdom[]

• Norah Aiton (1903–1988), early modernist architect
• Jill Allibone (1932–1998), architectural historian, founder of the Mausolea and Monuments Trust
• Julia Barfield (born 1952), co-founder of Marks Barfield Architects with David Marks; known for designing the London Eye
• Margaret Justin Blanco White (1911–2001), Scottish modernist architect, was awarded an OBE in 1973
• Teresa Borsuk (born 1956), winner of Architects' Journal Woman Architect of the Year 2015
• Isobel Hogg Kerr Beattie (1900–1970), perhaps the first female architect in regular practice in Scotland
• Elisabeth Benjamin (1908–1999), first generation of British female architects
• Corinne Bennett (1935–2010), conservation and cathedral architect
• Jos Boys
• Elizabeth Cadbury-Brown (1922–2002), American-born architect working in London with her husband H. T. Cadbury-Brown
• Ethel Charles (1871–1962), first woman to be admitted to RIBA
• Elizabeth Chesterton (1915–2002), architect and town planner
• Catherine Cooke (1942–2004), academic and writer on Russian architecture
• Dame Sylvia Crowe (1901–1997), landscape architect
• Dame Jane Drew (1911–1996), architect, town planner, proponent of modernism
• Jane Duncan (born 1953), RIBA President-elect (2014)
• Kathryn Findlay (1954–2014), worked in Japan 1979 to 1999, before returning to the UK
• Wendy Foster (1937–1989), co-founder of Team 4 and Foster Associates
• Dame Zaha Hadid (1950–2016), see Iraq
• Susannah Hagan (born 1951), educator, Royal College of Art School of Architecture
• Edith Gillian Harrison (1898–1974), one of the first four women students to graduate from the Architectural Association School of Architecture^[12]
• Rachel Haugh, co-founder of SimpsonHaugh and Partners
• Patty Hopkins (born 1942), Royal Gold Medal winner
• Edith Hughes (1888–1971), probably Britain's first female practicing architect
• Louisa Hutton (born 1957), co-founder of Sauerbruch Hutton
• Eva Jiřičná (born 1939), see Czech Republic
• Judith Ledeboer (1901–1990), designed schools, universities and public housing
• Gertrude Leverkus (1899–1976), German-born architect
• Amanda Levete (born 1955), co-founder of Future Systems, head of AL A
• Sara Losh (1785–1853), architect of St Mary's Church, Wreay, Cumbria, 1840–42
• Kate Macintosh (born 1937), designed public housing in London
• Kirsteen Mackay, in 2015 appointed South Australian Government Architect
• Mary Medd (1907–2005), public buildings including schools
• Marian Pepler (1904–1997), architect, rug designer
• Matrix Feminist Design Co-operative (1980–1984)
• Monica Pidgeon (1913–2009), interior designer, Honorary Fellow of the RIBA, AIA and Architectural Association
• Ruth Reed, first female president of the Royal Institute of British Architects, 2009–2011
• Su Rogers (née Brumwell, born 1939), founding member of Team 4 and co-designer of the Centre Georges Pompidou
• Diana Rowntree (1915–2008), architectural writer
• Nathalie Rozencwajg (born 1975), co-founder of RARE Architecture
• Winifred Ryle (1897–1987), early female student at the Architectural Association School of Architecture
• Flora Samuel, head of the School of Architecture at Sheffield University since 2009
• Deborah Saunt, co-founder of DSHDA in London
• Elisabeth Scott (1898–1972), first woman architect to win an international architecture competition
• Alison Smithson (1928–1993), practitioner of Brutalist architecture
• Rosemary Stjernstedt (1912–1998), designed public housing in London
• Sarah Susanka (born 1957), best known for her Not So Big books
• Mary Townley (1753–1839), of Ramsgate; pupil of Joshua Reynolds; designer of Townley House
• Jane Wernick (born 1954), architect, educator, associated with the London Eye
• Sarah Wigglesworth, founder of Sarah Wigglesworth Architects; multi-RIBA Award winner; Professor of Architecture at Sheffield University
• Lady Elizabeth Wilbraham (1632–1705), probably the first known female architect
• Georgie Wolton (born 1934), founding member of Team 4

North America[]

Belize[]

• Esther Ayuso (born 1958), first female architect of Belize, born in Venezuela; specializes in hospital design
• Sue Courtenay (born c. 1966), first female president of the Federation of Caribbean Association of Architects

Canada[]

• Alexandra Biriukova (1895–1967), first woman to register with the Ontario Association of Architects^[13]
• Shirley Blumberg (born 1952), founding partner of KPMB Architects
• Giovanna Borasi (born 1971), Italian-born Canadian architect, curator of the Canadian Centre for Architecture
• Alison Brooks (born 1962), moved to the UK in 1989; Stirling Prize winner 2008
• Pamela Cluff (born 1931), accessibility design
• Teresa Coady (born 1956), sustainability and energy-saving design
• Marie-Chantal Croft (born c. 1970), Quebec architect
• Beatrice Centner Davidson (1909–1986), Toronto architect
• Blanche Lemco van Ginkel (born 1923), Modernist architect
• Lennox Grafton (1919–2017), design and project architect for the Government of Canada
• Jean Hall (1896–1982), B. Arch. University of Toronto, 1923, first Canadian-trained female architect to design a building in Canada
• Esther Hill (1895–1983), first female architect to graduate in Canada, from University of Toronto in 1920
• Barbara Humphreys (died 2017), architect and author, specializing in public service, historic preservation, and housing
• Lily Inglis (1926–2010), Italian-born Canadian architect
• Phyllis Lambert (born 1927), architect and philanthropist
• Martha Stewart Leitch (1918–2015) (fl. 2006), Toronto architect, Fellow of the RAIC^[14]
• Elizabeth Lord, B. Arch. University of Manitoba, (graduated 1939); first woman to register with the Manitoba Association of Architects^[15]
• Janet Leys Shaw Mactavish (1925–1972), university buildings
• Alice Malhiot (1889–1968), first Canadian woman to receive a diploma in architecture
• Marianne McKenna (born 1950), founding partner of KPMB Architects
• Cornelia Oberlander (1921–2021), landscape architect
• Mother Joseph Pariseau (1823–1902), religious sister who designed buildings in the state of Washington
• Patricia Patkau (born 1950), architect and founder of Patkau Architects
• Helga Plumb (born 1939), Austrian-born architect and design critic
• Brigitte Shim (born 1958), born in Jamaica, founding partner of Shim-Sutcliffe Architects; tenured professor at the University of Toronto's John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture
• Eva Vecsei (born 1930), Hungarian-born architect active in Montreal
• Catherine Mary Wisnicki^[16] (1919–2014)

Cuba[]

• María Margarita Egaña Fernández (1921–1975), Cuban modernist architect

Dominican Republic[]

• Margot Taule (1920–2008), first registered professional engineer and architect in the Dominican Republic

Jamaica[]

• Nadine Isaacs (1942–2004), first female head of the Jamaican Institute of Architects and Caribbean School of Architecture
• Verma Panton (1936–2015), first female architect of Jamaica and of the Anglo-Caribbean

Mexico[]

• Tatiana Bilbao (born 1972), best known for the Botanical Garden of Sinaloa in Culiacán
• Clara de Buen Richkarday (born 1954), metro stations in Mexico City
• Gabriela Carrillo, partner of the practice Taller Rocha + Carillo
• Fernanda Canales (born 1974), architect, designer, curator
• Frida Escobedo (born 1979), architect best known for the 2018 Serpentine Pavilion, and La Tallera Siquieros in Cuernavaca.
• María Luisa Dehesa Gómez Farías (1912–2009), first female architecture graduate in Mexico and Latin America
• Laura Itzel Castillo (born 1957), architect, politician
• Ruth Rivera Marín (1927–1969), first female graduate of College of Engineering and Architecture at the National Polytechnic Institute
• Beatriz Peschard (born 1970), architect, editor, and partner of Bernardi + Peschard Arquitectura
• Teresa Táboas (born 1961), architect, professor and Galician politician
• Sara Topelson de Grinberg (born 1945), educational, commercial, and cultural buildings; professor

Puerto Rico[]

• Beatriz del Cueto (born 1952 in Havana), conservation, academic

United States[]

This list of United States women architects includes notable women architects with a strong connection to the United States, i.e. born in the USA, located in the USA, or known primarily for their work in the USA.

A[]

• Constance Abernathy (1931–1994), architectural collaborator with Buckminster Fuller
• Ruth Maxon Adams (1883–1970), designer for Yelping Hill, Connecticut
• Diana Agrest (born 1945), architect and urban designer in New York City
• Nellie B. Allen (1874–1961), landscape architect known for her knot gardens
• Mary Almy (1883–1976), one of three women who founded Howe, Manning & Almy, Inc. in Boston, Massachusetts
• Kathryn H. Anthony, architect, educator, writer
• Paola Antonelli (born 1963), see Italy
• Mai Arbegast (1992–2012), landscape architect, educator
• Alice Constance Austin (1868–ca. 1930), designed houses to reduce domestic labor so as to promote gender equality
• Violeta Autumn (1930–2012), Peruvian-born, Sausalito, California architect and city councilwoman
• Elizabeth Ayer (1897–1987), pioneering woman architect in Seattle, Washington

B[]

• Agnes Ballard (1877–1969) Florida's first registered woman architect and first woman AIA
• Diana Balmori (1932–2016), landscape and urban designer
• Julie Bargmann (born 1958), landscape architect, educator
• Carol Ross Barney (born 1949), founder of Ross Barney Architects, 1981
• Nora Barney (1883–1971), civil engineer, architect and suffragist
• Katherine Bashford (1885–1953), landscape architect active in Southern California
• Karen Bausman (born 1958), has taught at both Harvard University and Yale University
• Ann Beha (born 1950), Boston architect
• Laura Bennett (born 1963), architect and fashion designer
• Deborah Berke (born 1954), founder of Deborah Berke & Partners Architects in New York City
• Barbara Bestor (born 1969), active in Los Angeles, California
• Louise Blanchard Bethune (1856–1948), first American woman known to have worked as a professional architect
• Rebecca L. Binder (born 1951), architect, designer, and educator, who was named a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects
• 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
• Lilian Bridgman (1866–1948), active in California after World War I
• Cornelia Brierly (1913–2012), worked with Frank Lloyd Wright
• Sara Bronin, architect and historic preservationist
• Angela Brooks, co-founder of Brooks + Scarpa in Los Angeles, California
• Elizabeth Carter Brooks (1867–1951), African American architect, educator and activist^[17]
• Daphne Brown (1948–2011), highly acclaimed Alaskan architect
• Debra M. Brown (born 1963), judge, worked as an architect in Washington, D.C.
• Denise Scott Brown (born 1931), see Zambia
• Lori Brown (born 1969), co-founder of ArchiteXX, educator
• Emma Brunson (1887–1980), opened her own firm in Minnesota
• Cory Buckner, restoration architect in Los Angeles, California
• Katharine Budd (1860–1951), pioneering woman architect admitted to the AIA in 1924 after practicing for 30 years^[18]
• Pamela Burton (born 1948), landscape architect
• Emily Helen Butterfield (1884–1958), Michigan's first licensed female architect

C[]

• Elizabeth Cadbury-Brown (1922–2002), American-born architect who practiced in New York and London
• Alma Carlisle (born 1927), African American architect who helped preserve historic structures in Los Angeles, California^[19]
• Alberta Jeannette Cassell (1926–2007), African American architect who worked for the U.S. Navy^[20]
• Olive Chadeayne (1904–2001), architect, specifications writer
• Judith Chafee (1932–1988), architect, educator, residential buildings in Arizona
• Josephine Wright Chapman (1867–1943), active in Boston, Massachusetts
• Annie Chu, Chinese American architect and educator in Los Angeles, California
• Jane West Clauss (1907–2003), architect and educator
• Elizabeth Close (1912–2011), pioneering female architect in Minneapolis, Minnesota
• Rose Connor (1892–1970), early woman architect in Pasadena, California
• Marian Cruger Coffin (1876–1957), pioneering landscape architect
• Elisabeth Coit (1897–1987), own firm in New York City
• Doris Cole (born 1938), co-founder of Cole and Goyette, Architects and Planners in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Massachusetts
• Melissa Minnich Coleman (1917–2014), active in Pennsylvania, specialized in school buildings
• Mary Colter (1869–1958), chief architect of the Fred Harvey Company
• Lise Anne Couture (born 1959), co-founder of Asymptote Architecture
• Dana Hudkins Crawford (born 1931), architectural conservation developer and preservationist for Downtown Denver, Colorado
• Mary Ann Crawford (1901–1988), architect in Illinois
• Dana Cuff, architecture theorist and educator and founder of CityLab^[21]

D[]

• Mary Lund Davis (1922–1998), modernist architect from the Pacific Northwest
• Natalie Griffin de Blois (1921–2013), partner for many years in the architectural firm of Skidmore, Owings and Merrill
• Edna Deakin (1871–1946), considered one of the earliest American women architects
• Peggy Deamer (born 1950), architect, educator, principal at Deamer, Architects
• Katherine Diamond (born 1954), first woman to be president of the Los Angeles chapter of the AIA
• Elizabeth Diller (born 1954), co-founder of Diller Scofidio + Renfro in 1979
• Julia Lester Dillon (1871–1959), Georgia landscape architect and columnist
• Betsey Doughtery, California architect, recipient of AIACC Lifetime Achievement Award, 2017
• Henrietta Dozier (1872–1947), first female architect in Georgia
• Winka Dubbeldam (born 1966), Dutch-born American architect active in New York City
• Ena Dubnoff, Southern California architect

E[]

• Tammy Eagle Bull, architect
• Ray Eames (1912–1988)
• Keller Easterling (born 1959), architect, urbanist and writer
• Judith Edelman (1923–2014), co-founder of Edelman Sultan Knox Wood/Architects
• Merrill Elam, active in Atlanta, Georgia, co-founded her own firm in 1984
• Dora Epstein-Jones, educator, theorist and curator

F[]

• Beatrix Farrand (1872–1959), landscape architect
• Jessica Farrar (born 1966)
• Roberta M. Feldman, educator, University of Illinois, Chicago
• Katherine Cutler Ficken (1911–1968), first licensed female architect in Maryland (1936)
• Elizabeth Hirsh Fleisher (1892–1975), first registered female architect in Philadelphia
• Jean B. Fletcher (1915–1965), founding member of the Architects' Collaborative
• Helen Liu Fong (1927–2005), Chinese-American architect and interior designer who practiced in Los Angeles, California
• Anne Fougeron (born 1955), active in California
• Helen French (1900–1994), latterly based in San Francisco
• Margaret Fritsch (1899–1993), first female architect in Oregon
• Ethel Furman (1899–1993), earliest African American female architect in Virginia

G[]

• Jeanne Gang (born 1964), award-winning leader of Studio Gang Architects
• Mary Gannon (1867–1932), co-founder of Gannon and Hands^[18]
• Carolyn Geise (born 1935), Seattle-based architect
• Elsa Gidoni (1901–1978), German-born architect and interior designer
• Madeline Gins (1941–2014), collaborated with Shusaku Arakawa on the Mechanism of Meaning
• Joan E. Goody (1935–2009), modern architecture in Boston
• Lois Gottlieb (1926–2018), one of the five women featured in the documentary A girl is a fellow here
• Rose Greely (1887–1969), first licensed female architect in Washington, D.C.
• Beverly Loraine Greene (1915–1957), first registered African American female architect in the US
• Marion Mahony Griffin (1871–1961), one of the first licensed female architects in the world

H[]

• Leola Hall (1881–1930), first female architect in Berkeley, California
• Frances Halsband (born 1943), AIA design committee
• Alice Hands, co-founder of Gannon and Hands^[18]
• Sarah P. Harkness (1914–2013), president of the Boston Society of Architects
• Georgia Louise Harris Brown (1918–1999), second African American woman to become a licensed architect in the United States
• Jane Hastings (born 1928), in Seattle; first female chancellor of the AIA College of Fellows
• 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
• Edith Henderson (1911–2005), landscape architect
• Frances Henley (1896–1955), early female architect in Rhode Island
• Margaret Hicks (1858–1883)
• E. E. Holman (1854–1925) (aka Emily Elizabeth Holman) (fl. 1892–1915), early female architect in Pennsylvania
• Victorine du Pont Homsey (1900–1998), founding partner in the firm of Victorine & Samuel Homsey
• Mary Rockwell Hook (1877–1978), denied admission to AIA due to her gender
• Lois Howe (1864–1964), founder of the all female firm in Boston, Howe, Manning & Almy, Inc.
• Elinor Mead Howells (1837–1910), artist, architect, aristocrat
• Ada Louise Huxtable (1921–2013), architecture critic
• Joyce Hwang, architect and urban planner

I[]

• Elizabeth Wright Ingraham (1922–2013), architect and granddaughter of Frank Lloyd Wright
• Harriet Morrison Irwin (1828–1897), early female architect from North Carolina
• Lisa Iwamoto, Japanese-American architect, co-founder of IwamotoScott, and Associate Professor at University of California, Berkeley.

J[]

• Mary Rutherfurd Jay (1872–1953), early landscape architect
• Alice E. Johnson (1862–1936), early architect from Ohio
• Sharon Johnston, founding partner of the firm Johnston Marklee & Associates

K[]

• Michelle Kaufmann, green architect and designer
• Anna Keichline (1889–1943), first registered female architect in Pennsylvania
• Fay Kellogg (1871–1918), "the foremost woman architect in the United States" in the early 20th century^[22]
• Sheila Kennedy, Professor of Architecture at MIT, winner of International Building Exhibition award^[23]
• Gertrude Lempp Kerbis (1926–2016), modernist architect with Bauhaus connections, and with links to Frank Lloyd Wright
• Florence Knoll (1917–2019), architect and furniture designer
• Rosalyn Koo (born 1929), Chinese-born American, manager at MBT Associates, San Francisco, also a philanthropist
• Gertrude Kuh (1893–1977), landscape architect active in the Chicago area

L[]

• Ellamae Ellis League (1899–1991), first woman FAIA from Georgia
• Grace La (born 1970), Professor of Architecture at Harvard University, co-founder of LA DALLMAN in Boston, MA and Milwaukee, WI
• Cara Lee, co-founded a firm in Los Angeles, California, in 2003
• Andrea Leers, founded the Boston-based firm Leers Weinzapfel Associates
• Brenda Levin, based in Los Angeles, California, advocate of historic preservation
• Diane Lewis (1951–2017), architect, first female faculty at Cooper Union
• Maya Lin (born 1959), designer of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C.
• Jing Liu (architect) (born 1980), co-founder of new York-based firm SO-IL
• MJ Long (1939–2018), principal architect partner on the British Library in London
• Ivenue Love-Stanley, first African American woman licensed architect in the Southeast
• Florence Luscomb (1887–1985)

M[]

• Marion Manley (1893–1984), based in Florida, collaborated on the University of Miami campus
• Elisabeth Martini (1886–1984), active in Chicago
• Susan Maxman (1938–1997), first woman president of the AIA (1992)
• Ida McCain (born 1884, date of death unknown), early female architect active on the West oast
• Margaret McCurry (born 1942), partner with Stanley Tigerman in Tigerman McCurry Architects in Chicago
• Marcia Mead (1879–1967), partner in the early female firm Schenck & Mead in New York City
• Elise Mercur (1869–1947), early female architect in Pennsylvania
• Amaza Lee Meredith (1895–1984), early African American architect, known for Azurest South
• Harriet Moody (1891–1966)^[18]
• Julia Morgan (1872–1957), first woman to obtain an architecture degree at the École des Beaux-Arts^[2]
• Toshiko Mori (born 1951), Japanese architect based in New York City
• Gertrude Comfort Morrow (ca. 1888–1983), opened her own office in San Francisco, contributed to the Golden Gate Bridge
• Edla Muir (1906–1971), designed residences in Southern California
• Louise Caldwell Murdock (1857–1915), interior designer and architect active in Wichita, Kansas

N[]

• Edith Northman (1893–1956), one of Southern California's first women architects

O[]

• Eleanor Manning O'Connor (1884–1973), partner in the female firm Howe, Manning & Almy, Inc. in Boston
• Kathleen O'Donnell (born 1988), architect and founding partner of Studio Gang/O'Donnell [Now Studio/Gang]
• Carole J. Olshavsky (born 1947), own firm in 1975, state architect for Ohio
• Kate Orff (born 1971), landscape architect, founder of SCAPE

P[]

• Mary L. Page (1849–1921), first American woman to graduate in architecture in the United States
• Cary Millholland Parker (1902–2001), landscape architect, worked with Rose Greely and Gertrude Sawyer^[24]
• Elizabeth Pattee (1893–1991)^[18]
• Juliet Peddle (1899–1979), first woman architect licensed in Indiana
• Brigitte Peterhans (born 1928), worked on many renowned buildings internationally, including the Sears Tower, Chicago
• Nelle Peters (1884–1974), prolific architect in Kansas City
• Carolyn Peterson, Texas preservation architect and Fellow of the AIA
• Eleanore Pettersen (1916–2003), one of the first female architects in New Jersey
• Alberta Pfeiffer (1899–1994), one of the first female architects in Illinois
• Marjorie Pierce (1900–1999), architect who practiced in Massachusetts
• Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk (born 1950), co-founder of Miami's Duany Plater-Zyberk & Company; academic
• Linda Pollari, active in Los Angeles, California
• Monica Ponce de Leon (born 1965), National Design Award Winner; practicing architect; founder of MPdL Studio
• Ethel B. Power (1881–1969), writer on architecture and magazine editor

R[]

• Amy Porter Rapp (1908–2002), active in Portland, Oregon
• Eleanor Raymond (1888–1989), prominent architect in Boston and Cambridge, Massachusetts
• Florence Kenyon Hayden Rector (1882–1973), first licensed female architect in Ohio
• Hilde Reiss (1909–2002) (fl. 1930s–1960s), German-born architect, active in Minneapolis
• Lilian Jeannette Rice (1889–1938), worked in California in the Spanish colonial style
• Elizabeth Chu Richter (born 1949), originally from Hong Kong but made her career in Texas; 2015 President of the AIA; has designed notable buildings in the Corpus Christi area
• Theodate Pope Riddle (1867–1946), first female licensed architect in both New York and Connecticut
• Jane Silverstein Ries (1909–2005), Colorado landscape architect
• Lutah Maria Riggs (1896–1984), early female architect, active in Southern California, especially Santa Barbara, California
• Isabel Roberts (1871–1955), member of the architectural design team in the Oak Park Studio of Frank Lloyd Wright
• Annie Rockfellow (1866–1954), prolific architect in Tucson, Arizona
• Rocio Romero (born 1971), Chilean-American architect
• Karla Rothstein (born 1966), German American architect, educator, active in New York City
• Sigrid Lorenzen Rupp (1943–2004), German-born architect in Silicon Valley
• Marie Russak (1865–1945), singer, esotericist, also designed houses in Krotona, California
• Ida Annah Ryan (1873–1950), pioneering woman architect

S[]

• Patricia Saldaña Natke (born 1964), founding partner of UrbanWorks, Chicago
• Christine Salmon (1916–1985), mainly residential, focus on housing for the disabled
• Verna Cook Salomonsky (1890–1950), mainly residential architecture
• Hilary Sample, principal and co-founder of award-winning architecture firm MOS Architects
• Adèle Naudé Santos, based in San Francisco, focus on low-income housing
• Gertrude Sawyer (1895–1996), early female architect in Maryland and Washington D.C.
• Anna Pendleton Schenck (1874–1915), partner in the New York firm of Schenck & Mead
• Cathy Simon, San Francisco Bay Area architect
• Norma Sklarek (1926–2012), first black female licensed architect in the US^[2]
• Chloethiel Woodard Smith (1910–1992), architect and urban planner in Washington, D.C.
• Anna Sokolina (born 1956), PhD, architect, author, curator, educator, founder and Chair of Women in Architecture AG and the WiA Registers Committee of the Society of Architectural Historians
• Laurinda Hope Spear (born 1950), co-founder of Arquitectonica
• Margaret Fulton Spencer (1882–1966), second woman to become a member of the American Institute of Architects
• Lenore Thomas Straus (1909–1988)
• Sharon E. Sutton (born 1941), African American architect and architectural educator and Fellow of the American Institute of Architects
• Patricia Swan (1924–2012), active in Calgary, Alberta, and Denver, Colorado

T[]

• Hilda Taba (1902–1967), architect, theorist, and educator
• Marilyn Jordan Taylor (born 1949), partner of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, founder of Transport and Airport Design Division
• Jane Thompson (1927–2016), principal of Thompson Design Group
• Martha Cassell Thompson (1925–1968), African American architect and chief restoration architect for the National Cathedral
• Polly Povey Thompson (1904–1994), early 20th-century American architect, principal in the firm Polly Povey Thompson, Ray Kermit Thompson, Architects
• Martha Thorne (born 1953), educator, curator, writer, executive director of the Pritzker Prize
• Billie Tsien, Tod Williams (born 1943) Billie Tsien (born 1949) partner, Tod Williams Billie Tsien Architects
• Anne Tyng (1920–2011), close collaborator of Louis Kahn

V[]

• Margaret Van Pelt Vilas (1905–1995), opened a practice in New Haven, Connecticut in 1958
• Shirley Jane Vernon (1930–2011), architect and architectural educator in Pennsylvania, was a Fellow of the AIA
• Lauretta Vinciarelli (1943–2011), artist, architect, and architectural educator

W[]

• Roberta Washington, founded one of the few architecture firms led by an African American
• Hazel Wood Waterman (1865–1948), worked in Arts and Crafts style in Southern California
• Nelva Weber (1908–1990), landscape architect in New York City
• Jane Weinzapfel, co-founder of the Boston-based firm Leers Weinzapfel Associates
• Marion Weiss (born 1957), co-founder of Weiss/Manfredi, and Professor of Architecture at the University of Pennsylvania
• Candace Wheeler (1827–1923), interior designer
• Sarah Whiting (born 1964), academic and author
• Bertha Yerex Whitman (1892–1984), first female architecture graduate from the University of Michigan, active in Illinois
• Leila Ross Wilburn (1885–1967), one of the first female architects in Georgia
• Emily Williams (1869–1942), pioneering female architect in San Jose, California and San Francisco
• Beverly Willis (born 1928), influential in design development, active mainly in San Francisco
• Alda Heaton Wilson (1873–1960), architect and civil engineer from Iowa
• Zelma Wilson (1918–1996), active mainly in California
• Marjorie Wintermute (1919–2007), active in Oregon
• Catherine Bauer Wurster (1905–1964), architect and urban social activist

Y[]

• Georgina Pope Yeatman (1902–1982), active in Philadelphia
• Florence Yoch (1890–1972), landscape architect active in California
• Meejin Yoon (born 1972), Korean-American architect and designer, co-founder of Höweler+Yoon
• Helen Binkerd Young (1877–1959), early New York architect and architectural educator

Z[]

• Astra Zarina (1929–2008), architect and academic
• Zoka Zola, Croatian-born American architect, active in Chicago since 1990

South America[]

Argentina[]

• Diana Agrest (born 1945), co-founded Agrest and Gandelsonas Architects in New York City
• Cristina Álvarez Rodríguez (born 1967), various administrative positions
• Alicia Cazzaniga (1928–1968), best known for designing the National Library of the Argentine Republic
• Noemí Goytia (born 1936), Argentine architect, professor
• Sara Gramática (born 1942), co-founded GGMPU Arquitectos in Córdoba, Argentina
• Mabel Lapacó (1930–2016), Brutalist architect
• Martha Levisman (born 1933), architect and archivist
• Zaida Muxí (born 1964), architect, city planner
• Filandia Elisa Pizzul (1902–1987), first female architecture graduate in Argentina
• Graciela Silvestri (born 1954), architect, educator, researcher
• Susana Torre (born 1944), feminist with academic and practical experience, strong supporter of women's role in architecture
• Itala Fulvia Villa (1913–1991), Buenos Aires urban planner
• Marina Waisman (1920–1997), Premio América laureate in 1987

Brazil[]

• Lina Bo Bardi (1914–1992), Italian-born Brazilian modernist architect
• Georgia Louise Harris Brown (1918–1999), African American who spent most of her career in Brazil^[25]
• Carla Juaçaba (born 1976), received the first arcVision prize for Women and Architecture^[26]
• Lota de Macedo Soares (1910–1967), self-taught architect and landscape architect emeritus, created the Parque do Flamengo, RJ

Chile[]

• Sonia Tschorne Berestesky (born 1954), architect and Chilean government minister
• Glenda Kapstein Lomboy (1939–2008), worked in Spain before returning to Chile in 1980
• Dora Riedel (1906–1982), first Chilean woman to receive a degree in architecture
• Rocio Romero (born 1971), Chilean born prefabrication, kit home designer

Colombia[]

• Luz Amorocho (1922–2019), first woman to graduate with a degree in architecture in Colombia; Director of Planning at the National University of Colombia, 1966–1988

Paraguay[]

• Gloria Cabral (born 1982), titular partner of the firm Gabinete Arquitectura

Uruguay[]

• Charna Furman (born 1941), urban planning architect noted for designing urban spaces for women and marginalized groups^[27]
• Giulia Guarino (1897–1985), Italian-born architect, first woman architect in South America ^[28]

See also[]

• Women in architecture
• Women of the Bauhaus

References[]

External links[]

• Pioneering Women of American Architecture