List of women architects
Appearance
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)
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
Uganda
- Assumpta Nnaggenda-Musana, 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, architect, educator, researcher
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 1953), own firm in Mumbai
- Revathi Kamath (born 1955), 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, architect, furniture designer, educator, own partnership since 1995
- Brinda Somaya, 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
- 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
- Nobuko Nakahara (1929- 2008), founded PODOKO, 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
Lebanon
- Amale Andraos, 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 [4]
Palestine
- Suad Amiry (born 1951), author and architect
Saudi Arabia
- Nadia Bakhurji, interior architect, holds several administrative positions
Singapore
- Cheong Koon Hean (born 1957), award-winning urban planner and architect[5]
Sri Lanka
- Minnette de Silva (1918–1998), first Sri Lankan female architect
Taiwan
- Xiu Zelan (born 1925), Taiwan's first female architect
Thailand
- Patama Roonrakwit, practising architect, focus on under-privileged housing
Turkey
- 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,[6] Norwegian-born, first woman in Australia to be awarded the RAIA Gold Medal
- Eva Buhrich (1915–1976), architect, editor and writer who migrated from Germany
- Karen Burns (born 1962), architectural historian, theorist, activist and educator
- Stroma Buttrose (born 1929), 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 (born 1900), 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, architecture critic, author and columnist
- Margaret Feilman (born 1921), Perth architect and town planner
- Margaret Findlay (born 1916), first female in Tasmania to qualify as an associate of the Royal Australian Institute of Architects
- Abbie Galvin, principal of BVN Architecture
- Jill Garner, principal of Garner Davis, Associate Government Architect, Office of the Victorian Government Architect
- Eli Giannini, 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, 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, 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, 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, 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 (born 1924), 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, 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, architect, urbanist and advocate
- Christine Phillips, academic, architect, advocate
- Susan Phillips, award-winning second-generation architect based in Adelaide
- Caroline Pidcock, 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
- Louise St John Kennedy, 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 (born 1935), 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, 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, 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
Europe
Albania
- Valentina Pistoli (born 1928), 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
- Laura P. Spinadel (born 1958), principal at BUSarchitektur & BOA büro für offensive aleatorik
- 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[7]
- 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[8]
- Maria Luisa Doseva-Georgieva (1894–1975), the second licensed woman architect in Bulgaria (after Elena Markova, who did not practice after obtaining her license)[9]
- 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[6][10]
- Věra Machoninová (born 1928)
- Milada Petříková-Pavlíková (1895–1985), first female architect in Czechoslovakia
Denmark
- Pia Bech Mathiesen (born 1962), 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, 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 (born 1942), 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
- 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 (born 1949), 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[6]
- Françoise-Hélène Jourda (born 1955), educator and proponent of sustainable architecture
- 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), a Franco-American architect and urban planner
- Marion Tournon-Branly (born 1924)
- 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 (born 1921), 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 (born 1939), 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 (born 1929), 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
- 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[11]
- Cini Boeri (born 1924), architect, interior designer and industrial designer
- Plautilla Bricci (1616–1690), architect and painter in and near Rome
- Anna Castelli Ferrieri, 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, 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 (born 1937), of Afra and Tobia Scarpa
- Benedetta Tagliabue (born 1963), based in Barcelona, Spain
- 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
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
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 (born 1949), architect and politician
Russia
- Nina Alexandrovna Aleshin (1924–2012), designer on 20 stations of the Moscow Metro and head of the Metro 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, see Belgium
- Rachel Bernstein Wischnitzer (1885–1989), born in the Russian Empire but 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
- María Francisca Lage de la Fuente (born 1954), specializing in urbanism
- Matilde Ucelay Maortúa (1912–2008), first woman licensed in architecture in Spain
- Carme Pinós (born 1954)
- Beatriz Ramo (born 1979), Spanish architect working in the Dutch city of Rotterdam
- Benedetta Tagliabue, see Italy
- Patricia Urquiola (born 1961), working in Milan, Italy since 1990
Sweden
- Anna Branzell (1895–1983), Norwegian-born Swedish architect, first woman to graduate in architecture in Sweden
- Léonie Geisendorf (born 1914), 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[12]
- 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 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
- Teresa Borsuk, 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
- 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
- Sylvia Crowe (1901–1997), landscape architect
- 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
- Zaha Hadid, 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[13]
- 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, 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
- 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 (born 1897), 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 1937), 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 mid–1970s), 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[14]
- 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 (fl. 2006), Toronto architect, Fellow of the RAIC [15]
- Elizabeth Lord, B. Arch. University of Manitoba, (graduated 1939); first woman to register with the Manitoba Association of Architects[16]
- 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
- Mother Joseph Pariseau (1823–1902), religious sister who designed buildings in the state of Washington
- Patricia Patkau, 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[17] (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
- 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 (born 1912), 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
- 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
- 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, landscape and urban designer
- 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, active in Los Angeles, California
- Louise Blanchard Bethune (1856–1948), first American woman known to have worked as a professional architect
- Rebecca L. Binder, 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, 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[18]
- 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, 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[19]
- Pamela Burton, 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[20]
- Alberta Jeannette Cassell (1926–2007), African American architect who worked for the U.S. Navy[21]
- 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
- 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[22]
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, 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
- 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
F
- Beatrix Farrand (1872–1959), landscape architect
- Jessica Farrar
- 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 1954), active in California
- Helen French (born 1900), 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 (born 1867), co-founder of Gannon and Hands[19]
- 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, 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[19]
- Sarah P. Harkness (born 1914), 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 (died 1955), early female architect in Rhode Island
- Margaret Hicks (1858–1883)
- E. E. Holman (aka Emily Elizabeth Holman) (fl. 1892–1915), early female architect in Pennsylvania
- Victorine du Pont Homsey, 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
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[23]
- Sheila Kennedy, Professor of Architecture at MIT, winner of International Building Exhibition award[24]
- Gertrude Lempp Kerbis (1926–2016), modernist architect with Bauhaus connections, and with links to Frank Lloyd Wright
- Florence Knoll (born 1917), 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
- Maya Lin (born 1959), designer of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C.
- Jing Liu (architect), co-founder of new York-based firm SO-IL
- 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)[19]
- 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 (born 1893), 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, architect and founding partner of Studio Gang/O'Donnell [Now Studio/Gang]
- Carole J. Olshavsky, own firm in 1975, state architect for Ohio
- Kate Orff, 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[25]
- Elizabeth Pattee (born 1893)[19]
- 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 (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, 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 (born 1874), 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
- 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.
- 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
- 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, 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, 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
- Candace Wheeler (1827–1923), interior designer
- Sarah Whiting, 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
- 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 (born 1902, date of death unknown), 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[26]
- Carla Juaçaba (born 1976), received the first arcVision prize for Women and Architecture[27]
- 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 (born 1922), first woman to graduate with a degree in architecture in Colombia; Director of Planning at the National University of Colombia, 1966–1988
Uruguay
- Charna Furman (born 1941), urban planning architect noted for designing urban spaces for women and marginalized groups[28]
- Giulia Guarino (1897–1985), Italian-born architect, first woman architect in South America [29]
See also
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