List of women architects

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, partner in Design Source in Nairobi, first woman to chair the Architectural Association of Kenya (AAK) Architects' Chapter.

Nigeria

• Olajumoke Adenowo (b. 1968), described as "the face of architecture in Nigeria"
• Fifi Ejindu, architect, businesswoman, philanthropist

South Africa

• Sarah Calburn (b. 1964), own practice, residential projects and Johannesburg's Momo Gallery
• Sophia Gray (1814–1871), first female architect in South Africa
• Linda Mvusi (born c.1955), actress, architect, owns her own firm
• Kate Otten (b. 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 (b. 1931), born in Northern Rhodesia; educated in South Africa and London; lives and works in the US

Asia

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 (b. 1981), co-founder of the New York design office SO-IL
• Lu Wenyu, should have won the Pritzer Prize for the work with her husband Wang Shu

India

• Urmila Eulie Chowdhury, (1923–1995) first woman to qualify as an architect in Asia
• Shimul Javeri Kadri (born 1953), own firm in Mumbai
• Ranjini Kalappa, architecture firm with her sister Brinda Somaya (below)
• 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
• Sonali Rastogi (born 1967), founding partner of Morphogenesis
• Sheila Sri Prakash (b. 1955), first woman in India to have started her own architectural firm
• Samira Rathod, architect, furniture designer, educator, own partnership since 1995
• Brinda Somaya, UNESCO prize for restoring St Thomas Cathedral in Mumbai
• Chitra Vishwanath, established her own firm in 1991, working in India and Africa

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Iraq

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

Iran

• Farshid Moussavi (b. 1965), Iranian-British founder of Farshid Moussavi Architecture

Israel

• Dora Gad (1912–2003), influential interior designer
• Ada Karmi-Melamede (b. 1936), Supreme Court of Israel, numerous educational buildings
• Nitza Metzger Szmuk, conservation work in Tel Aviv
• Rivka Oxman, academic

Japan

• Itsuko Hasegawa (b. 1941), own firm since 1979
• Masako Hayashi (1928–2001), first woman to win Architectural Institute of Japan Award
• Kazuyo Sejima (b. 1956), co-founder of SANAA, Pritzker prize winner in 2010
• Nobuko Tsuchiura (1900–1998), first woman architect in Japan

Lebanon

• Amale Andraos, dean of the Colombia Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation.

Mongolia

• Biambasuren Luvsandamdingiin (b. 1955), urban planner

Nepal

• Hisila Yami (b. 1959), also a government minister

Pakistan

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

Palestine

• Suad Amiry (b. 1951), author and architect

Saudi Arabia

• Nadia Bakhurji, interior architect, holds several administrative positions

Singapore

• Cheong Koon Hean (b. 1957), award-winning urban planner and architect.

Sri Lanka

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

Taiwan

• Xiu Zelan (b. 1925), Taiwan's first female architect

Thailand

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

Turkey

• Mualla Eyüboğlu (1919–2009)
• Zeynep Fadillioglu (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, Norwegian born, first woman in Australia to be awarded the RAIA Gold Medal
• Winsome Hall Andrew (1905–1997)
• Eva Buhrich (1915–1976), architect, editor and writer who migrated from Germany
• Karen Burns (b. 1962), architectural historian, theorist, activist and educator
• Stroma Buttrose (b. 1929), first female Planning Assistant in South Australia
• Justine Clark, New Zealand-born architectural editor, writer, speaker and researcher
• Kerry Clare, architect and joint recipient of the Australian Institute of Architects Gold Medal
• Louise Cox (b. 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
• Harriet Edquist (born 1940s), architectural historian, educator and writer
• Zahava Elenberg (b. 1973), co-director of Elenberg Fraser
• Cassandra Fahey (b. circa 1972), architect and interior designer
• Elizabeth Farrelly architecture critic, author and columnist
• Margaret Feilman (b. 1921), Perth architect and town planner
• Margaret Findlay (b. 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 (b. 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
• Laura Harding (b. 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
• Mary Ann Jackson (born 1960), architect, planner and access consultant from Melbourne
• 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
• Nellie McCredie (1903–1968), an Australian architect and potter
• Kirsteen Mackay, South Australian Government Architect
• Kooi-Ying Mah, architect, designer, and principal of Kooi-Ying Architects
• Gill Matthewson, academic, researcher and architect
• 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 (b 1924), architect known for the 1956 Olympic Pool in Mlebourne (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 (b. 1942), first female president of RAIA (Victoria); founding member of the Association of Women in Architecture
• Penelope Seidler (born 1938), director of Sydney-based Harry Seidler and associates
• Louise St John Kennedy, West Australian architect, recipient of the 1984 Robin Boyd Award
• Mary Turner Shaw (1906–1990), pioneering female architect
• Naomi Stead (b 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 (b. 1935), architect, professor, critic and author
• Cynthia Teague MBE (1906–2007), pioneering Australian architect and public servant.
• Kerstin Thompson (b. 1965), Melbourne-based architect; professor of design at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand
• Beverley Ussher (1868–1908)
• 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 Demeetriyevna Oosava (1921), state architect who helped restore the City of Minsk after WWII

Belgium

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

Bosnia and Herzegovina

• Dijana Alić (born 1950s), architect and academic living in Australia
• Vesna Bugarski (1930–1992), first female architect in Bosnia-Herzegovina
• Selma Harrington (b. 1955), interior design, president of the Architects' Council of Europe

Bulgaria

• Victoria Angelova (1902–1947), first female architect of Bulgaria.
• Milka Bliznakov (1927–2010), founder of the International Archive of Women in Architecture
• 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 (b. 1939), moved from Czechoslovakia to London in 1968
• Milada Petříková-Pavlíková (1895–1985), first female architect in Czechoslovakia

Denmark

• Pia Bech Mathiesen (born 1962), designer, executive, head of the Universe science amusement part
• Ellen Braae (born 1965), landscape architect, educator
• Karen Clemmensen (1917–2001), functionalist educational institutions
• Inger Exner (b. 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 (b. 1942), Modernist landscape architecture
• Anna Maria Indrio (b. 1943), architect with C. F. Møller
• Kristine Jensen (born 1956), landscape architect
• Helle Juul (born 1954), urban planning
• Bodil Kjær (b. 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
• Dorte Mandrup-Poulsen (b. 1961), own practice in Copenhagen
• Mette Lange (graduated 1990), mobile schools for nomad children in Goa
• Elna Møller (1913–1994), principal editor of Danmarks Kirker
• Lise Roel (b. 1928), based in Halmstad, Sweden
• Lene Tranberg (b. 1956), since 2000: high-profile buildings in Copenhagen
• Susanne Ussing (1940–1998), experimental approaches with new materials
• Lone Wiggers (b. 1963), partner at C. F. Møller Architects

Estonia

• Yoko Alender (b. 1979), architect, civil servant and politician
• Dora Gordine (1895–1991), Estonian-born sculptor, architect, active in England, remembered for Dorich House
• Katrin Koov (b. 1973), large public projects since 2000
• Marika Lõoke (b. 1951), office buildings
• Margit Mutso (b. 1966), apartment buildings
• Erika Nõva (1905–1987), Estonia's first female architect
• Maarja Nummert (b. 1944), schools
• Valve Pormeister (1922–2002), highly influential in Soviet era
• Mai Šein (b. 1946), housing and university addition, has own business
• Hilda Taba (1902–1967), took up work in New York, USA because Tartu University would not employ a woman.
• Meeli Truu (1946–2013), active in Tallinn
• Veronika Valk (b. 1976), various large buildings, also lectures widely
• Siiri Vallner (b. 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
• 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 (b. 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 (b. 1953), award-winning architect and urban planner
• Anne Debarre (b. 1957), academic and researcher
• Odile Decq (b. 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 (b. 1929), social housing in Paris suburbs
• Manuelle Gautrand (b. 1961), versatile modern architect working in many areas
• Dominique Gauzin-Müller (b. 1960), architect and architectural critic
• Édith Girard (b. 1949), practicing architect in the area of social housing
• Pascale Guédot (b. 1960), awarded the Prix de l'Équerre d'Argent
• Solange d'Herbez de la Tour
• Françoise-Hélène Jourda (b. 26 November 1955), educator and proponent of sustainable architecture
• Marine Miroux (b. 1977), French architect working in Berlin
• Charlotte Perriand (1903–1999), visionary designer and architect who inspired Le Corbusier
• Marion Tournon-Branly (b. 1924)
• Corinne Vezzoni (b. 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 (b. 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 (b. 1959), partner with Axel Schultes, Berlin
• Dörte Gatermann (b. 1956), Triangle Tower in Cologne
• Anna Heringer (b. 1977), award-winning proponent of sustainable architecture
• Lucy Hillebrand (1906–1997), latterly educational buildings
• Margrit Kennedy (b. 1939), specializing in ecological building techniques
• Anna Klingmann (b. 1965), theorist of brandism, the connection of branding and architecture
• Sigrid Kressmann-Zschach (1929–1990), first shopping mall in Germany
• Lilly Reich (1885–1947), German modernist designer, interior architect
• Thekla Schild (1890–1991), Germany's second female architectural graduate
• Barbara Schock-Werner (b. 1947), Cologne cathedral
• Annabelle Selldorf (b. early 1960s), founded her own agency in New York
• Lotte Stam-Beese (1903–1988), helped with the post-war reconstruction of Rotterdam
• 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 (b. 1930), see Canada

Iceland

• Högna Sigurðardóttir (b. 1929), first woman to design a building in Iceland

Ireland

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

Italy

• Paola Antonelli (b. 1963), senior curator of the department of architecture & design at The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York City
• Luisa Anversa Ferretti (b. 1926), architect, interior designer, also academic
• Maria Laura Arlotti (b. 1955), founding partner of ABDR architects
• Gae Aulenti (b. 1927), architect, interior designer and industrial designer
• Lina Bo Bardi (1914–1992), moved to Brazil after the war and became a naturalized Brazilian citizen
• Cini Boeri (b. 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
• Doriana Mandrelli Fuksas, founding partner of Fuksas Studio in Rome
• Stefania Filo Speziale (1905–1988), first women to graduate from an architecture program in Naples
• Maria Giuseppina Grasso Cannizzo, own studio in Vittoria, Sicily
• Giulia Guarino (1897-1985), see Uruguay
• Franca Helg, (1920–1989), architect and designer
• Anna Maria Indrio (b. 1943), see Denmark
• Elena Luzzatto (1900-1983), first women to graduate from an architecture program in Italy
• Rosaria Piomelli (b. 1937), architect and academic
• Guendalina Salimei (b. 1962), own studio in Rome, also academic
• Teresa Sapey (b. 1962), own studio in Madrid, also academic
• Afra Scarpa (b. 1937), of Afra and Tobia Scarpa
• Benedetta Tagliabue (b. 1963), based in Barcelona, Spain
• Laura Thermes (b. 1943), own studio in Rome with Franco Purini, also academic
• Patricia Viel (b. 1962), founding partner of Antonio Citterio and Partners
• Paola Viganò (b. 1961), architect and urban planner, own studio in Milan
• Lauretta Vinciarelli (1943–2011), artist, architect, educator

Luxembourg

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

Montenegro

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

Netherlands

• Fleur Agema (born 1976), politician, former spatial designer
• Caroline Bos (b. 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 (b. 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 (b. 1965), co-founder of MVRDV
• Tonny Zwollo (b. 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, Houens fonds diplom 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

Portugal

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

Poland

• Barbara Bielecka (b. 1931), designed the Sanctuary of Our Lady of Lichen, 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
• Barbara Matynia-Łyżwińska (1922–2010), architect, educator, specializing in railway infrastructure

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 (b. 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 from 1981-1991
• Galina Balashova (born 1931), architect and designer associated with the Soviet space program
• Adrienna Gorska (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 USA in 1940

Serbia

• Ksenija Bulatović (b. 1967), various educational and commercial buildings, also academic
• Jelisaveta Načić (1878–1955), first female architect in Serbia
• Olja Ivanjicki (1931–2009), versatile artist in sculpture, poetry, design, architecture and writing

Slovenia

• Marjetica Potrč (b. 1953), installations, research

Spain

• Laura Alvarez (Madrid, 1977) architect working in Amsterdam
• Roser Amadó (b. 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
• Beatriz Ramo (born 1979), Spanish architect working in the Dutch city of Rotterdam
• Carme Pinós (b. 1954)
• Benedetta Tagliabue, see Italy
• Patricia Urquiola (b. 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 (b. 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
• 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)
• Inga Varg (born 1952), working on urban planning, interior design and architecture
• Ingeborg Wærn Bugge (1899–1991), early Swedish graduate, residential buildings, schools, renovation

Switzerland

• Angela Deuber (b. 1975), architect, educator
• Lux Guyer (1894–1955), architect behind the SAFFA women's fair in Bern
• Inès Lamunière (born 1954), architect, educator, editor
• Gret Loewensberg (b. 1943), works in domestic architecture
• 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
• Elizabeth Cadbury-Brown (1922–2002), American-born architect working in London with her husband H. T. Cadbury-Brown
• 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
• 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 (b. 1953), RIBA President-elect (2014)
• Kathryn Findlay (b. 1954), worked in Japan 1979 to 1999, before returning to the UK
• Zaha Hadid, see Iraq
• Simone de Gale (b. 1982), founding member of Simone de Gale Architects
• 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.
• Patty Hopkins (b. 1942), Royal Gold Medal winner
• Edith Hughes (1888–1971), probably Britain's first female practicing architect
• Louisa Hutton (b. 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 (b. 1955), co-founder of Future Systems, head of AL A
• Sarah Losh (1785–1853), architect of St. Mary's 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 Peplar (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
• Diana Rowntree (1915–2008), architectural writer
• 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 (b. 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 (b. 1937), founding member of Team 4

North America

Belize

• Esther Ayuso (1958), first female architect of Belize. Specializes in hospital design. was born in Venezuela
• 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.
• Shirley Blumberg (b. 1952), partner of KPMB Architects
• Giovanna Borasi (born 1971), Italian-born Canadian architect, curator of the Canadian Centre for Architecture
• Alison Brooks (b. 1962), moved to the UK in 1989; Stirling Prize winner 2008
• Teresa Coady (b. 1956), sustainability and energy-saving design
• Lise-Anne Couture (b. 1959), see United States of America
• Marie-Chantal Croft (b. ca 1970), Quebec architect
• Blanche Lemco van Ginkel (b. 1923), Modernist architect
• Lennox Grafton (b. 1920), design and project architect for the Government of Canada
• Esther Hill (1895–1983), first female architect to graduate in Canada, from Toronto University in 1920
• Jean Hall (1896–1982) B. Arch. University of Toronto 1923, first Canadian trained female architect to design a building in Canada
• Lily Inglis (b. 1926), Italian-born Canadian architect
• Phyllis Lambert (b. 1927), architect and philanthropist
• Martha Stewart Leitch (fl. 2006), Toronto architect, Fellow of the RAIC
• Alice Malhiot (1889–1968), first Canadian woman to receive a diploma in architecture
• Janet Leys Shaw Mactavish (1925–1972), university buildings
• Marianne McKenna (born 1950), founding partner of KPMB Architects
• Patricia Patkau architect and founder of Patkau Architects.
• Mother Joseph Pariseau (1823–1902), religious sister who designed buildings in the state of Washington
• Helga Plumb (b. 1939), Austrian-born architect and design critic
• Brigitte Shim (b. 1958), born in Jamaica, founding partner of Shim-Sutcliffe Architects. She is a tenured professor at the University of Toronto's John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture.
• Alice Ross (1890-1963), first female architect (graduated in the US in 1910)
• Eva Vecsei (b. 1930), Hungarian-born architect active in Montreal
• Catherine Mary Wisnicki (b. 1919)

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 Culicán
• Clara de Buen Richkarday (born 1954), metro stations in Mexico City
• Fernanda Canales (born 1974), architect, designer, curator
• 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 Marin, (1927-1969), first female graduate of College of Engineering and Architecture at the National Polytechnic Institute
• Sara Topelson de Grinberg (b. 1945), educational, commercial, and cultural buildings; professor
• Teresa Táboas (born 1961), architect, professor and Galician politician.

Puerto Rico

• Beatriz del Cueto (b. 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 (b. 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
• Paola Antonelli (b. 1963), see Italy
• Kathryn H. Anthony, architect, educator, writer
• Alice Constance Austin (1868–ca. 1930), designed houses to reduce domestic labor so as to promote gender equality
• Elizabeth Ayer (1897–1987), pioneering woman architect in Seattle

B

• Carol Ross Barney (b. 1949), founder of Ross Barney Architects, 1981
• Diana Balmori, landscape and urban designer
• Nora Barney (1883–1971), civil engineer, architect and suffragist
• Katherine Bashford (1885–1953), landscape architect active in Southern California
• Karen Bausman (b. 1958), has taught at both Harvard and Yale
• Deborah Berke (born 1954), founder of Deborah Berke & Partners Architects in New York City
• Barbara Bestor, active in Los Angeles
• Ann Beha (b. 1950), Boston architect
• Laura Bennett (b. 1963), architect and fashion designer
• Sophia Hayden Bennett (1868–1953), first woman to graduate in architecture from MIT
• Louise Blanchard Bethune (1856–1948), first American woman known to have worked as a professional architect
• 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
• Lilian Bridgman (1866–1948), active in California after World War I
• Cornelia Brierly (1913–2012), worked with Frank Lloyd Wright
• Elizabeth Carter Brooks (1867–1951), African American architect, educator and activist.
• Daphne Elizabeth Brown (1948–2011), highly acclaimed Alaskan architect
• Debra M. Brown (b. 1963), judge, worked as an architect in Washington D.C.
• Denise Scott Brown (b. 1931), see Zambia
• Lori Brown, co-founder of ArchiteXX, educator
• Emma Brunson (1887–1980), opened her own firm in Minnesota
• Katharine Budd (1860–1951), pioneering woman architect admitted to the AIA in 1924 after practicing for 30 years
• Pamela Burton, landscape architect
• Emily Helen Butterfield (1884–1958), Michigan's first licensed female architect

C

• Alma Carlisle (b. 1927), African American architect who helped preserve historic structures in Los Angeles
• Alberta Jeannette Cassell (1926-2007), African American architect who worked for the U.S. Navy.
• Judith Chafee (1932–1988), architect, educator, residential buildings in Arizona
• Josephine Wright Chapman (1867–1943), active in Boston, Massachusetts
• Elizabeth Close (1912–2011), pioneering female architect in Minneapolis
• Marian Cruger Coffin (1876–1957), pioneering landscape architect
• Elisabeth Coit (1897–1987), own firm in New York City
• Doris Cole (b. 1938), co-founder of Cole and Goyette, Architects and Planners in Cambridge, 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 (b. 1931), architectural conservation developer and preservationist for Downtown Denver, Colorado.

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
• Julia Lester Dillon (1871–1959) Georgia landscape architect and columnist
• 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 American Institute of Architects
• Elizabeth Diller, co-founder of Diller Scofidio + Renfro in 1979
• Henrietta Dozier (1872–1947), first female architect in Georgia
• Winka Dubbeldam (born 1966), Dutch-born American architect active in New York City

E

• Keller Easterling (b. 1959), architect, urbanist and writer
• Judith Edelman (1923–2014), co-founder of Edelman Sultan Knox Wood/Architects
• Julie Eizenberg FAIA, co-founded firm Koning Eizenberg in Santa Monica, California in 1981
• Merrill Elam, active in Atlanda, Georgia, co-founded her own firm in 1984

F

• Anne Fairfax (b. 1954), first female architect to receive Arthur Ross Award
• Beatrix Farrand (1872–1959), landscape architect
• 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
• Anne Fougeron (b. 1954), active in California
• Helen French (b. 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 (b. 1964), award-winning leader of Studio Gang Architects
• Mary Gannon (b. 1867), co-founder of Gannon and Hands
• Carolyn Geise (b. 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
• 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 (b. 1943), AIA design committee
• Alice Hands, co-founder of Gannon and Hands
• Sarah P. Harkness (b. 1914), president of the Boston Society of Architects
• Jane Hastings (b. 1928), own firm in Seattle; first female chancellor of the AIA College of Fellows
• Margo Hebald-Heymann, 1960s graduate, contributed to Terminal One, Los Angeles Airport
• Margaret Helfand (1947–2007), own firm in New York City
• Edith Henderson (1911-2005), landscape architect
• Frances Henley (d. 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

I

• Elizabeth Wright Ingraham (1922–2013), architect and granddaughter of Frank Lloyd Wright
• Harriet Irwin (1828–1897), early female architect from North Carolina

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
• Sheila Kennedy, Professor of Architecture at MIT, winner of International Building Exhibition award
• Florence Knoll (b. 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

• Cara Lee, co-founded a firm in Los Angeles in 2003
• Andrea Leers, founded the Boston-based firm Leers Weinzapfel Associates
• Brenda Levin, based in Los Angeles, advocate of historic preservation
• Maya Lin (b. 1959), designer of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C.
• 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
• Eleanor Manning (1884–1973), partner in the female firm Howe, Manning & Almy, Inc. in Boston
• Elisabeth Martini (1886–1894), active in Chicago
• Susan Maxman (1938–1997), first woman president of the American Institute of Architects (1992)
• Ida McCain (born 1884, date of death unknown), early female architect active on the West Coast
• 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)
• Julia Morgan (1872–1957), first woman to obtain an architecture degree at the École des Beaux-Arts
• Toshiko Mori (b. 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

• Sarah Nettleton (b. 1950), architect, landscape designer, active in Minneapolis
• Edith Northman (b. 1893), one of Southern California's first women architects

O

• 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
• Elizabeth Pattee (b. 1893)
• Juliet Peddle (1899–1979), first women architect licensed in Indiana
• Nelle Peters (1884–1974), prolific architect in Kansas City
• 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
• Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk (b. 1950), co-founder of Miami's Duany Plater Zyberk & Company; academic
• Linda Pollari, active in Los Angeles
• Monica Ponce de Leon, (b. 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 American Institute of Architects and 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
• Isabel Roberts (b. 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
• 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.
• Norma Sklarek (1926-2012), first black female licensed architect in the US
• Chloethiel Woodard Smith (1910–1992), architect and urban planner in Washington, D.C.
• Laurinda Hope Spear (b. 1950), co-founder of Arquitectonica
• Margaret Fulton Spencer (1882–1966), second woman to become a member of the American Institute of Architects
• Patricia Swan (1924–2012), active in Calgary, Alberta, and Denver, Colorado

T

• Marilyn Jordan Taylor (1949), partner of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, founder of Transport and Airport Design Division
• Jane Thompson, principal of Thompson Design Group
• 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

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 and San Francisco
• Beverly Willis (b. 1928), influential in design development, active mainly in San Francisco
• 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
• 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

• es:Carmen Córdova (1929-2011), architect
• Diana Agrest (b. 1945), co-founded Agrest and Gandelsonas Architects in New York, USA
• Sara Gramática (born 1942), co-founded GGMPU Arquitectos in Córdoba, Argentina
• Cristina Álvarez Rodríguez (born 1967), various administrative positions
• 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 (b. 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), an African American who spent most of her career in Brazil
• Lota de Macedo Soares (1910–1967), self-taught architect and landscape architect emeritus, created the Parque do Flamengo, RJ.

Chile

• Sonia Tschorne Berestesky (b. 1954), architect and Chilean government minister
• Glenda Kapstein Lomboy (1939–2008), worked in Spain before returning to Chile in 1980
• Rocio Romero, (b. 1971), Chilean born prefabrication, kit home designer

Colombia

• Luz Amorocho (b. 1922) first woman to graduate with a degree in architecture in Colombia; Director of Planning at the National University of Colombia from 1966-1988

Uruguay

• Giulia Guarino (1897-1985), Italian-born architect, first woman architect in South America

See also

• Women in architecture
• List of architects