List of women architects

Africa

Egypt

• Shahira Fahmy, founded her own firm in 2005

  Kenya

• Eugenie Dorothy Hughes, first Kenyan and first East African female architect
• Erica Mann, town planner and architect, Architect Laureate
• Emma Miloyo, partner in Design Source in Nairobi, first female President of the Architectural Association of Kenya

  Nigeria

• Olajumoke Adenowo, described as "the face of architecture in Nigeria"
• Fifi Ejindu, architect, businesswoman, philanthropist

  South Africa

• Sarah Calburn, own practice, residential projects and Johannesburg's Gallery MOMO
• Sophia Gray, first female architect in South Africa
• Linda Mvusi, actress, architect, owns her own firm
• Kate Otten, 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, born in Northern Rhodesia; educated in South Africa and London; lives and works in the US

  Asia

Armenia

• Anna Ter-Avetikian, first Armenian woman to become an architect

  Azerbaijan

• Gulnara Mehmandarova, researcher in connection with UNESCO sites

  Bangladesh

• Khaleda Ekram, architect, educator, researcher

  China

• Huang Hui
• Lin Huiyin, first known Chinese female architect
• Jing Liu, 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

  India

• Eulie Chowdhury, first woman to qualify as an architect in Asia
• Shimul Javeri Kadri, own firm in Mumbai
• Revathi Kamath, pioneer of mud architecture
• Anupama Kundoo, innovative architect working in Auroville
• Pravina Mehta, urban planner and architect
• Perin Jamsetjee Mistri, believed to be the first woman to graduate in architecture in India
• Sheila Sri Prakash, first woman in India to have started her own architectural firm
• Sonali Rastogi, 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 is a Canadian-Indonesian architect who uses bamboo.

  Iran

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

  [|Iraq]

• Dame Zaha Hadid, Iraqi-British; founder of Zaha Hadid Architects in London; first woman to win the Pritzker Prize

  Israel

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

  Japan

• Itsuko Hasegawa, own firm since 1979
• Masako Hayashi, first woman to win Architectural Institute of Japan Award
• Toshiko Mori, first woman to receive tenure at Harvard GSD
• Nobuko Nakahara, founded PODOKO, association of female architects
• Kazuyo Sejima, co-founder of SANAA, Pritzker prize winner in 2010
• Nobuko Tsuchiura, first woman architect in Japan

  Jordan

• Abeer Seikaly

  Lebanon

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

  Mongolia

• Biambasuren Luvsandamdingiin, urban planner

  Nepal

• Hisila Yami, also a government minister

  Pakistan

• Yasmeen Lari, the country's first female architect

  Palestine

• Suad Amiry, author and architect
• Khouloud Daibes, architect and former politician and diplomat

  Saudi Arabia

• Nadia Bakhurji, interior architect, holds several administrative positions

  Singapore

• Cheong Koon Hean, award-winning urban planner and architect

  Sri Lanka

• Minnette de Silva, first Sri Lankan female architect

  Taiwan

• Xiu Zelan, Taiwan's first female architect

  Thailand

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

  Turkey

• Mualla Eyüboğlu
• Zeynep Fadıllıoğlu, redesigned Istanbul's Şakirin Mosque to wide international acclaim

  Australasia

Australia

• Lily Isabel Maude Addison, early female architect in Queensland
• Ruth Alsop, 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
• Emma Appleton, Australian landscape architect and urban designer
• Beverley Bolin, the first woman to become a registered architect in South Australia.
• Eva Buhrich, architect, editor and writer who migrated from Germany
• Karen Burns, architectural historian, theorist, activist and educator
• Stroma Buttrose, 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, architect, Officer of the Order of Australia for services to architecture
• Eleanor Cullis-Hill, Sydney architect
• Suzanne Dance, Melbourne-based architect
• Maggie Edmond, principal at Melbourne-based Edmond and Corrigan
• Rosina Edmunds, architect, urban planner and writer
• Harriet Edquist, architectural historian, educator and writer
• Zahava Elenberg, co-director of Elenberg Fraser
• Cassandra Fahey, architect and interior designer
• Elizabeth Farrelly, architecture critic, author and columnist
• Margaret Feilman, Perth architect and town planner
• Margaret Findlay, 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, Australia's first female architecture academic
• Elizabeth Grant, 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
• Laura Harding, practitioner and critic
• Ellison Harvie, 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, 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, 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, Australian architect and potter
• Alison Mears, dean of the School of Design Strategies at Parsons The New School for Design
• Margaret Pitt Morison, early female architect in Western Australia
• Elina Mottram, British-born, Queensland's first and longest practicing female architect
• Phyllis Murphy, architect known for the 1956 Olympic Pool in Melbourne along with conservation projects
• Andrea Nield, founded Emergency Architects Australia
• Rachel Nolan, a founding director of Kennedy Nolan, a Melbourne-based practice
• Ellice Nosworthy, 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, first female president of Royal Australian Institute of Architects ; 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, director of Sydney-based Harry Seidler and associates
• Mary Turner Shaw, pioneering female architect
• Naomi Stead, architectural academic, critic and writer
• Muriel Stott, probably the first woman with her own architectural firm in Australia
• Florence Mary Taylor, born in England but emigrated as a child; Australia's first qualified female architect
• Jennifer Taylor, architect, professor, critic and author
• Cynthia Teague MBE, pioneering Australian architect and public servant
• Kerstin Thompson, 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, active in London at Walters & Cohen
• Emma Young, director of Phooey

  New Zealand

• Kate Beath, probably the first female architect in New Zealand
• Gill Matthewson, architect, educator, writer

  Europe

Albania

• Valentina Pistoli, first Albanian female architect

  Austria

• Maria Auböck, architect, educator, specializing in landscape architecture
• Ella Briggs, early Austrian female architect and interior decorator
• Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky, first Austrian female architect
• Lilia Skala, graduated in and practiced architecture before becoming an actress in the United States
• Laura P. Spinadel, principal at BUSarchitektur
• Silja Tillner, principal at Architekten Tillner & Willinger
• Liane Zimbler, possibly the first European woman to graduate in architecture, in Austria; practiced in the United States from 1938 to age 90

  Belarus

• Lyubow Usava, state architect who helped restore the Minsk after WWII

  [|Belgium]

• Christine Conix
• Simone Guilissen, early female practitioner; built residential villas and a large sports centre
• Dita Roque-Gourary

  [|Bosnia and Herzegovina]

• Dijana Alić, architect and academic living in Australia
• Vesna Bugarski, first female architect in Bosnia-Herzegovina
• Selma Harrington, interior design, president of the Architects' Council of Europe

  Bulgaria

• Victoria Angelova, built the first modern, national art gallery in the Balkans
• Milka Bliznakov, founder of the International Archive of Women in Architecture
• Maria Luisa Doseva-Georgieva, the second licensed woman architect in Bulgaria
• Dina Stancheva, 1985 recipient of the Gold Badge of the Bulgarian Union of Architects

  Croatia

• Rajka Vali, also pop singer

  [|Czech Republic]

• Eva Jiřičná, moved from Czechoslovakia to London in 1968
• Věra Machoninová
• Milada Petříková-Pavlíková, first female architect in Czechoslovakia

  [|Denmark]

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

  Estonia

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

  Finland

• Aino Aalto, first wife of Alvar Aalto using the Functionalist style, later turning to interiors
• Elissa Aalto, second wife of Alvar Aalto, with whom she designed the opera house in Essen
• Elsa Arokallio, after her husband died, ran her own business
• Elsi Borg, after graduating in 1919, designed a hospital and a church
• Elna Kiljander, early female architect active in Functionalism
• Hilda Hongell, possibly the first woman in Finland to run her own practice
• Signe Hornborg, possibly the first qualified female architect in the world
• Eva Kuhlefelt-Ekelund
• Kristiina Lassus, designer
• Wivi Lönn, several notable buildings; first woman to be granted title of professor by Finnish Association
• Martta Martikainen-Ypyä, designed many public buildings alone or with husband Ragnar Ypyä
• Raili Pietilä, closely cooperated with husband Raili Pietilä
• Kaija Siren, worked with her husband Heikki Siren

  France

• Katherine Briçonnet, supervised the construction of Château de Chenonceau
• Iwona Buczkowska, award-winning architect and urban planner
• Anne Debarre, academic and researcher
• Odile Decq, award-winning architect
• Anne Démians, established her own firm in Paris in 2004
• Françoise Fromonot, architectural critic
• Catherine Furet, specializes in social housing
• Renée Gailhoustet, social housing in Paris suburbs
• Manuelle Gautrand, versatile modern architect working in many areas
• Dominique Gauzin-Müller, architect and architectural critic
• Édith Girard, practicing architect in the area of social housing
• Pascale Guédot, awarded the Prix de l'Équerre d'Argent
• Solange d'Herbez de la Tour
• Françoise-Hélène Jourda, educator and proponent of sustainable architecture
• Marine Miroux, French architect working in Berlin
• Charlotte Perriand, visionary designer and architect who inspired Le Corbusier
• Edith Schreiber-Aujame, Franco-American architect and urban planner
• Marion Tournon-Branly
• Corinne Vezzoni, awarded the Prix Femmes Architectes

  Germany

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

  Greece

• Alexandra Paschalidou-Moreti, designed pavilions for international exhibitions

  Hungary

• Eva Vecsei, see [|Canada]

  Iceland

• Högna Sigurðardóttir, first woman to design a building in Iceland

  Ireland

• Angela Brady, elected president of the UK's Royal Institute of British Architects in 2011
• Yvonne Farrell, co-founder of award-winning Grafton Architects in Dublin
• Eileen Gray, lived and worked primarily in France
• Selma Harrington, see Bosnia and Herzegovina
• Caroline O'Donnell, winner of MoMA PS1 Young Architects Program 2013
• Sheila O'Donnell, co-founder of O’Donnell + Tuomey Architects; designed several award-winning buildings around Dublin

  [|Italy]

• Paola Antonelli, senior curator of the department of architecture & design at the Museum of Modern Art, New York City
• Gae Aulenti, architect, interior designer and industrial designer
• Lina Bo Bardi, moved to Brazil after the war and became a naturalized Brazilian citizen
• Cini Boeri, architect, interior designer and industrial designer
• Plautilla Bricci, architect and painter in and near Rome
• Anna Castelli Ferrieri, architect and industrial designer
• Alessandra Cianchetta, founding partner of AWP Paris, large-scale urban redevelopment
• Silvana De Stefano, architect and sculptor
• Stefania Filo Speziale, first woman to graduate from an architecture program in Naples
• Doriana Mandrelli Fuksas, founding partner of Fuksas Studio in Rome
• Giulia Guarino, Italian/Uruguayan architect first Latin American woman to graduate with a degree in architecture in 1923
• Franca Helg, architect and designer
• Anna Maria Indrio, see Denmark
• Elena Luzzatto, first woman to graduate from an architecture program in Italy
• Rosaria Piomelli, architect and academic
• Teresa Sapey, own studio in Madrid, also academic
• Afra Scarpa, of Afra and Tobia Scarpa
• Benedetta Tagliabue, based in Barcelona, Spain
• Lauretta Vinciarelli, artist, architect, educator

  Luxembourg

• Tatiana Fabeck, large-scale university development
• Arlette Schneiders, first woman in Luxembourg to have her own firm

  Malta

• Isabelle Barratt-Delia, first Maltese female architect

  Montenegro

• Svetlana Kana Radević, first Montenegrin female architect

  Netherlands

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

  Norway

• Kari Nissen Brodtkorb, architect and educator, Houen Foundation Award for Stranden housing complex in Oslo
• Lilla Hansen, Norway's first female architect
• Kristin Jarmund, runs her own business, Kristin Jarmund Arkitekter
• Hjørdis Grøntoft Raknerud, early Norwegian female architect
• Kirsten Sand, first woman to graduate in architecture from the Norwegian Institute of Technology
• Wenche Selmer, specialized in timber residential projects in the south of Norway
• Kirsten Sinding-Larsen, designed Sunnaas Hospital

  Poland

• Barbara Bielecka, designed the Basilica of Our Lady of Licheń, Poland's largest church
• Karola Bloch, worked in Austria, the United States and Germany
• Barbara Brukalska, Functionalist architect, educator
• Adrienne Górska, Russian-born Polish architect working in Paris

  Portugal

• Maria José Marques da Silva, first female architecture graduate from Porto's School of Fine Arts

  Romania

• Maria Cotescu, one of the first women architects of Romania; built the National railway industrial complex
• Henrieta Delavrancea, one of the first female architects admitted to the Superior School of Architecture in Bucharest
• Virginia Andreescu Haret, first female graduate in architecture and first female Romanian Architectural Inspector General
• Anca Petrescu, architect and politician

  Russia

• Nina Alexandrovna Aleshin, designer on 20 stations of the Moscow Metro and head of the Metro design department, 1981–1991
• Galina Balashova, architect and designer associated with the Soviet space program
• Adrienne Górska, born in Moscow of Polish extraction, early female graduate in Paris where she worked in the Art Deco style
• Tamara Katsenelenbogen, constructivist architect and urban planner
• Dita Roque-Gourary, see Belgium
• Rachel Bernstein Wischnitzer, born in the Russian Empire but moved to the U.S. in 1940

  Serbia

• Ksenija Bulatović, educational and commercial buildings, also academic
• Jelisaveta Načić, first female architect in Serbia
• Jovanka Bončić-Katerinić, 1st woman engineer in Germany
• Ljiljana Bakić, designed the award-winning Aleksandar Nikolić Hall
• Ivanka Raspopović, designed the award-winning Museum of Contemporary Art
• Milica Šterić, head of Energoprojekt’s architecture department
• Maja Vidaković Lalić, designed the Supermarket Store in Belgrade, founder of the Mikser Festival
• Olja Ivanjicki, artist in sculpture, poetry, design, architecture and writing
• Dubravka Sekulić, architectural researcher and theorist

  Slovenia

• Marjetica Potrč, installations, research

  Spain

• Roser Amadó, architect working in Barcelona
• Margarita Brender Rubira, Romanian-born architect active in Barcelona
• María Francisca Lage de la Fuente, specializing in urbanism
• Matilde Ucelay Maortúa, first woman licensed in architecture in Spain
• Carme Pinós
• Beatriz Ramo, Spanish architect working in the Dutch city of Rotterdam
• Benedetta Tagliabue, see Italy
• Patricia Urquiola, working in Milan, Italy since 1990

  Sweden

• Anna Branzell, Norwegian-born Swedish architect, first woman to graduate in architecture in Sweden
• Léonie Geisendorf, Polish-born Swedish architect working in Stockholm
• Mia Hägg, her firm, Habiter Autrement, is based in Paris
• Margit Hall, first woman in Sweden to graduate in architecture as an ordinary student
• Agnes Magnell, 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, furniture designer and architect
• Pernilla Ohrstedt, London-based Swedish architect
• Brita Snellman, first woman to graduate in architecture at the Royal Institute of Technology, in 1924
• Hillevi Svedberg, remembered for collective housing interiors
• Inga Varg, urban planning, interior design and architecture
• Ingeborg Wærn Bugge, early Swedish graduate, residential buildings, schools, renovation

  Switzerland

• Angela Deuber, architect, educator
• Annette Gigon, architect, educator
• Lux Guyer, architect behind the SAFFA women's fair in Bern
• Inès Lamunière, architect, educator, editor
• Gret Loewensberg, works in domestic architecture
• Berta Rahm, architect, writer, publisher
• Flora Steiger-Crawford, first Swiss woman to graduate in architecture

  Turkey

• Leman Tomsu, one of the first Turkish women to qualify as an architect in 1934

  United Kingdom

• Norah Aiton, early modernist architect
• Jill Allibone, architectural historian, founder of the Mausolea and Monuments Trust
• Julia Barfield, 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, perhaps the first female architect in regular practice in Scotland
• Elisabeth Benjamin, first generation of British female architects
• Corinne Bennett, conservation and cathedral architect
• Jos Boys
• Elizabeth Cadbury-Brown, American-born architect working in London with her husband H. T. Cadbury-Brown
• Ethel Charles, first woman to be admitted to RIBA
• Elizabeth Chesterton, architect and town planner
• Catherine Cooke, academic and writer on Russian architecture
• Dame Sylvia Crowe, landscape architect
• Dame Jane Drew, architect, town planner, proponent of modernism
• Jane Duncan, RIBA President-elect
• Kathryn Findlay, worked in Japan 1979 to 1999, before returning to the UK
• Dame Zaha Hadid, see Iraq
• Susannah Hagan, educator, Royal College of Art School of Architecture
• Edith Gillian Harrison, one of the first four women students to graduate from the Architectural Association School of Architecture
• Rachel Haugh, co-founder of SimpsonHaugh and Partners
• Patty Hopkins, Royal Gold Medal winner
• Edith Hughes, probably Britain's first female practicing architect
• Louisa Hutton, co-founder of Sauerbruch Hutton
• Eva Jiřičná, see Czech Republic
• Judith Ledeboer, designed schools, universities and public housing
• Gertrude Leverkus, German-born architect
• Amanda Levete, co-founder of Future Systems, head of AL A
• Sara Losh, architect of St Mary's Church, Wreay, Cumbria, 1840–42
• Kate Macintosh, designed public housing in London
• Kirsteen Mackay, in 2015 appointed South Australian Government Architect
• Mary Medd, public buildings including schools
• Marian Pepler, architect, rug designer
• Matrix Feminist Design Co-operative
• Monica Pidgeon, 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, founding member of Team 4 and co-designer of the Centre Georges Pompidou
• Diana Rowntree, architectural writer
• Nathalie Rozencwajg, co-founder of RARE Architecture
• Winifred Ryle, 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, first woman architect to win an international architecture competition
• Alison Smithson, practitioner of Brutalist architecture
• Rosemary Stjernstedt, designed public housing in London
• Sarah Susanka, best known for her Not So Big books
• Mary Townley, of Ramsgate; pupil of Joshua Reynolds; designer of Townley House
• Jane Wernick, 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, probably the first known female architect
• Georgie Wolton, founding member of Team 4

  North America

Belize

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

  Canada

• Alexandra Biriukova, first woman to register with the Ontario Association of Architects
• Shirley Blumberg, founding partner of KPMB Architects
• Giovanna Borasi, Italian-born Canadian architect, curator of the Canadian Centre for Architecture
• Alison Brooks, moved to the UK in 1989; Stirling Prize winner 2008
• Pamela Cluff, accessibility design
• Teresa Coady, sustainability and energy-saving design
• Marie-Chantal Croft, Quebec architect
• Beatrice Centner Davidson, Toronto architect
• Blanche Lemco van Ginkel, Modernist architect
• Lennox Grafton, design and project architect for the Government of Canada
• Jean Hall, B. Arch. University of Toronto, 1923, first Canadian-trained female architect to design a building in Canada
• Esther Hill, first female architect to graduate in Canada, from University of Toronto in 1920
• Barbara Humphreys, architect and author, specializing in public service, historic preservation, and housing
• Lily Inglis, Italian-born Canadian architect
• Phyllis Lambert, architect and philanthropist
• Martha Stewart Leitch, Toronto architect, Fellow of the RAIC
• Elizabeth Lord, B. Arch. University of Manitoba, ; first woman to register with the Manitoba Association of Architects
• Janet Leys Shaw Mactavish, university buildings
• Alice Malhiot, first Canadian woman to receive a diploma in architecture
• Marianne McKenna, founding partner of KPMB Architects
• Cornelia Oberlander, Landscape Architect
• Mother Joseph Pariseau, religious sister who designed buildings in the state of Washington
• Patricia Patkau, architect and founder of Patkau Architects
• Helga Plumb, Austrian-born architect and design critic
• Brigitte Shim, 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, Hungarian-born architect active in Montreal
• Catherine Mary Wisnicki

  Cuba

• María Margarita Egaña Fernández, Cuban modernist architect

  Dominican Republic

• Margot Taule, first registered professional engineer and architect in the Dominican Republic

  Jamaica

• Nadine Isaacs, first female head of the Jamaican Institute of Architects and Caribbean School of Architecture
• Verma Panton, first female architect of Jamaica and of the Anglo-Caribbean

  Mexico

• Tatiana Bilbao, best known for the Botanical Garden of Sinaloa in Culiacán
• Clara de Buen Richkarday, metro stations in Mexico City
• Fernanda Canales, architect, designer, curator
• Frida Escobedo, architect best known for the 2018 Serpentine Pavilion, and La Tallera Siquieros in Cuernavaca.
• María Luisa Dehesa Gómez Farías, first female architecture graduate in Mexico and Latin America
• Laura Itzel Castillo, architect, politician
• Ruth Rivera Marín, first female graduate of College of Engineering and Architecture at the National Polytechnic Institute
• Teresa Táboas, architect, professor and Galician politician
• Sara Topelson de Grinberg, educational, commercial, and cultural buildings; professor

  Puerto Rico

• Beatriz del Cueto, conservation, academic

  United States

A

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

  B

• Agnes Ballard Florida's first registered woman architect and first woman AIA
• Diana Balmori, landscape and urban designer
• Carol Ross Barney, founder of Ross Barney Architects, 1981
• Nora Barney, civil engineer, architect and suffragist
• Katherine Bashford, landscape architect active in Southern California
• Karen Bausman, has taught at both Harvard University and Yale University
• Ann Beha, Boston architect
• Laura Bennett, architect and fashion designer
• Deborah Berke, founder of Deborah Berke & Partners Architects in New York City
• Barbara Bestor, active in Los Angeles, California
• Louise Blanchard Bethune, 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, practicing architect, educator and proponent of women's role in architecture
• Norma Bonniwell, worked with her father in North Carolina
• India Boyer, first female architect in Ohio
• Louise Braverman, New York-based architect who is a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects
• Lilian Bridgman, active in California after World War I
• Cornelia Brierly, 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, African American architect, educator and activist
• Daphne Brown, highly acclaimed Alaskan architect
• Debra M. Brown, judge, worked as an architect in Washington, D.C.
• Denise Scott Brown, see Zambia
• Lori Brown, co-founder of ArchiteXX, educator
• Emma Brunson, opened her own firm in Minnesota
• Cory Buckner, restoration architect in Los Angeles, California
• Katharine Budd, pioneering woman architect admitted to the AIA in 1924 after practicing for 30 years
• Pamela Burton, landscape architect
• Emily Helen Butterfield, Michigan's first licensed female architect

  C

• Elizabeth Cadbury-Brown, American-born architect who practiced in New York and London
• Alma Carlisle, African American architect who helped preserve historic structures in Los Angeles, California
• Alberta Jeannette Cassell, African American architect who worked for the U.S. Navy
• Olive Chadeayne, architect, specifications writer
• Judith Chafee, architect, educator, residential buildings in Arizona
• Josephine Wright Chapman, active in Boston, Massachusetts
• Annie Chu, Chinese American architect and educator in Los Angeles, California
• Jane West Clauss, architect and educator
• Elizabeth Close, pioneering female architect in Minneapolis, Minnesota
• Rose Connor, early woman architect in Pasadena, California
• Marian Cruger Coffin, pioneering landscape architect
• Elisabeth Coit, own firm in New York City
• Doris Cole, co-founder of Cole and Goyette, Architects and Planners in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Massachusetts
• Melissa Minnich Coleman, active in Pennsylvania, specialized in school buildings
• Mary Colter, chief architect of the Fred Harvey Company
• Dana Hudkins Crawford, architectural conservation developer and preservationist for Downtown Denver, Colorado
• Mary Ann Crawford, architect in Illinois
• Dana Cuff, architecture theorist and educator and founder of CityLab

  D

• Mary Lund Davis, modernist architect from the Pacific Northwest
• Natalie Griffin de Blois, partner for many years in the architectural firm of Skidmore, Owings and Merrill
• Edna Deakin, considered one of the earliest American women architects
• Peggy Deamer, architect, educator, principal at Deamer, Architects
• Katherine Diamond, 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, Georgia landscape architect and columnist
• Betsey Doughtery, California architect, recipient of AIACC Lifetime Achievement Award, 2017
• Henrietta Dozier, first female architect in Georgia
• Winka Dubbeldam, Dutch-born American architect active in New York City
• Ena Dubnoff, Southern California architect

  E

• Keller Easterling, architect, urbanist and writer
• Judith Edelman, co-founder of Edelman Sultan Knox Wood/Architects
• Merrill Elam, active in Atlanta, Georgia, co-founded her own firm in 1984
• Dora Epstein-Jones, educator, theorist and curator

  F

• Beatrix Farrand, landscape architect
• Jessica Farrar
• Roberta M. Feldman, educator, University of Illinois, Chicago
• Katherine Cutler Ficken, first licensed female architect in Maryland
• Elizabeth Hirsh Fleisher, first registered female architect in Philadelphia
• Jean B. Fletcher, founding member of the Architects' Collaborative
• Helen Liu Fong, Chinese-American architect and interior designer who practiced in Los Angeles, California
• Anne Fougeron, active in California
• Helen French, latterly based in San Francisco
• Margaret Fritsch, first female architect in Oregon
• Ethel Furman, earliest African American female architect in Virginia

  G

• Jeanne Gang, award-winning leader of Studio Gang Architects
• Mary Gannon, co-founder of Gannon and Hands
• Carolyn Geise, Seattle-based architect
• Elsa Gidoni, German-born architect and interior designer
• Madeline Gins, collaborated with Shusaku Arakawa on the Mechanism of Meaning
• Joan E. Goody, modern architecture in Boston
• Lois Gottlieb, one of the five women featured in the documentary A girl is a fellow here
• Rose Greely, first licensed female architect in Washington, D.C.
• Beverly Loraine Greene, first registered African American female architect in the US
• Marion Mahony Griffin, one of the first licensed female architects in the world

  H

• Leola Hall, first female architect in Berkeley, California
• Frances Halsband, AIA design committee
• Alice Hands, co-founder of Gannon and Hands
• Sarah P. Harkness, president of the Boston Society of Architects
• Georgia Louise Harris Brown, second African American woman to become a licensed architect in the United States
• Jane Hastings, in Seattle; first female chancellor of the AIA College of Fellows
• Sophia Hayden, 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, own firm in New York City
• Edith Henderson, landscape architect
• Frances Henley, early female architect in Rhode Island
• Margaret Hicks
• E. E. Holman , early female architect in Pennsylvania
• Victorine du Pont Homsey, founding partner in the firm of Victorine & Samuel Homsey
• Mary Rockwell Hook, denied admission to AIA due to her gender
• Lois Howe, founder of the all female firm in Boston, Howe, Manning & Almy, Inc.
• Elinor Mead Howells, artist, architect, aristocrat
• Ada Louise Huxtable, architecture critic
• Joyce Hwang, architect and urban planner

  I

• Elizabeth Wright Ingraham, architect and granddaughter of Frank Lloyd Wright
• Harriet Morrison Irwin, 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, early landscape architect
• Alice E. Johnson, early architect from Ohio

  K

• Michelle Kaufmann, green architect and designer
• Anna Keichline, first registered female architect in Pennsylvania
• Fay Kellogg, "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
• Gertrude Lempp Kerbis, modernist architect with Bauhaus connections, and with links to Frank Lloyd Wright
• Florence Knoll, architect and furniture designer
• Rosalyn Koo, Chinese-born American, manager at MBT Associates, San Francisco, also a philanthropist
• Gertrude Kuh, landscape architect active in the Chicago area

  L

• Ellamae Ellis League, first woman FAIA from Georgia
• Grace La, Professor of Architecture at Harvard University, co-founder of LA DALLMAN in Boston, MA and Milwaukee, WI
• Cara Lee, co-founded a firm in Los Angeles, California, in 2003
• Andrea Leers, founded the Boston-based firm Leers Weinzapfel Associates
• Brenda Levin, based in Los Angeles, California, advocate of historic preservation
• Diane Lewis, architect, first female faculty at Cooper Union
• Maya Lin, designer of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C.
• Jing Liu, co-founder of new York-based firm SO-IL
• Ivenue Love-Stanley, first African American woman licensed architect in the Southeast
• Florence Luscomb

  M

• Marion Manley, based in Florida, collaborated on the University of Miami campus
• Elisabeth Martini, active in Chicago
• Susan Maxman, first woman president of the AIA
• Ida McCain, early female architect active on the West oast
• Margaret McCurry, partner with Stanley Tigerman in Tigerman McCurry Architects in Chicago
• Marcia Mead, partner in the early female firm Schenck & Mead in New York City
• Elise Mercur, early female architect in Pennsylvania
• Amaza Lee Meredith, early African American architect, known for Azurest South
• Harriet Moody
• Julia Morgan, first woman to obtain an architecture degree at the École des Beaux-Arts
• Toshiko Mori, Japanese architect based in New York City
• Gertrude Comfort Morrow, opened her own office in San Francisco, contributed to the Golden Gate Bridge
• Edla Muir, designed residences in Southern California
• Louise Caldwell Murdock, interior designer and architect active in Wichita, Kansas

  N

• Edith Northman, one of Southern California's first women architects

  O

• Eleanor Manning O'Connor, partner in the female firm Howe, Manning & Almy, Inc. in Boston
• Kathleen O'Donnell, architect and founding partner of Studio Gang/O'Donnell
• Carole J. Olshavsky, own firm in 1975, state architect for Ohio
• Kate Orff, landscape architect, founder of SCAPE

  P

• Mary L. Page, first American woman to graduate in architecture in the United States
• Cary Millholland Parker, landscape architect, worked with Rose Greely and Gertrude Sawyer
• Elizabeth Pattee
• Juliet Peddle, first woman architect licensed in Indiana
• Brigitte Peterhans, worked on many renowned buildings internationally, including the Sears Tower, Chicago
• Nelle Peters, prolific architect in Kansas City
• Carolyn Peterson, Texas preservation architect and Fellow of the AIA
• Eleanore Pettersen, one of the first female architects in New Jersey
• Alberta Pfeiffer, one of the first female architects in Illinois
• Marjorie Pierce, architect who practiced in Massachusetts
• Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk, co-founder of Miami's Duany Plater-Zyberk & Company; academic
• Linda Pollari, active in Los Angeles, California
• Monica Ponce de Leon, National Design Award Winner; practicing architect; founder of MPdL Studio
• Ethel B. Power, writer on architecture and magazine editor

  R

• Amy Porter Rapp, active in Portland, Oregon
• Eleanor Raymond, prominent architect in Boston and Cambridge, Massachusetts
• Florence Kenyon Hayden Rector, first licensed female architect in Ohio
• Hilde Reiss, German-born architect, active in Minneapolis
• Lilian Jeannette Rice, 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, first female licensed architect in both New York and Connecticut
• Jane Silverstein Ries, Colorado landscape architect
• Lutah Maria Riggs, early female architect, active in Southern California, especially Santa Barbara, California
• Isabel Roberts, member of the architectural design team in the Oak Park Studio of Frank Lloyd Wright
• Annie Rockfellow, prolific architect in Tucson, Arizona
• Rocio Romero, Chilean-American architect
• Karla Rothstein, German American architect, educator, active in New York City
• Sigrid Lorenzen Rupp, German-born architect in Silicon Valley
• Marie Russak, singer, esotericist, also designed houses in Krotona, California
• Ida Annah Ryan, pioneering woman architect

  S

• Patricia Saldaña Natke, founding partner of UrbanWorks, Chicago
• Christine Salmon, mainly residential, focus on housing for the disabled
• Verna Cook Salomonsky, mainly residential architecture
• Adèle Naudé Santos, based in San Francisco, focus on low-income housing
• Gertrude Sawyer, early female architect in Maryland and Washington D.C.
• Anna Pendleton Schenck, partner in the New York firm of Schenck & Mead
• Cathy Simon, San Francisco Bay Area architect
• Norma Sklarek, first black female licensed architect in the US
• Chloethiel Woodard Smith, architect and urban planner in Washington, D.C.
• Laurinda Hope Spear, co-founder of Arquitectonica
• Margaret Fulton Spencer, second woman to become a member of the American Institute of Architects
• Lenore Thomas Straus
• Sharon E. Sutton, African American architect and architectural educator and Fellow of the American Institute of Architects
• Patricia Swan, active in Calgary, Alberta, and Denver, Colorado

  T

• Hilda Taba, architect, theorist, and educator
• Marilyn Jordan Taylor, partner of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, founder of Transport and Airport Design Division
• Jane Thompson, principal of Thompson Design Group
• Martha Cassell Thompson, African American architect and chief restoration architect for the National Cathedral
• Polly Povey Thompson, early 20th-century American architect, principal in the firm Polly Povey Thompson, Ray Kermit Thompson, Architects
• Martha Thorne, educator, curator, writer, executive director of the Pritzker Prize
• Billie Tsien, partner, Tod Williams Billie Tsien Architects
• Anne Tyng, close collaborator of Louis Kahn

  V

• Margaret Van Pelt Vilas, opened a practice in New Haven, Connecticut in 1958
• Shirley Jane Vernon, architect and architectural educator in Pennsylvania, was a Fellow of the AIA
• Lauretta Vinciarelli, artist, architect, and architectural educator

  W

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

  Y

• Georgina Pope Yeatman, active in Philadelphia
• Florence Yoch, landscape architect active in California
• Meejin Yoon, Korean-American architect and designer, co-founder of Höweler+Yoon
• Helen Binkerd Young, early New York architect and architectural educator

  Z

• Astra Zarina, architect and academic
• Zoka Zola, Croatian-born American architect, active in Chicago since 1990

  South America

Argentina

• Diana Agrest, co-founded Agrest and Gandelsonas Architects in New York City
• Cristina Álvarez Rodríguez, various administrative positions
• Alicia Cazzaniga, best known for designing the National Library of the Argentine Republic
• Sara Gramática, co-founded GGMPU Arquitectos in Córdoba, Argentina
• Mabel Lapacó, Brutalist architect
• Martha Levisman, architect and archivist
• Zaida Muxí, architect, city planner
• Filandia Elisa Pizzul, first female architecture graduate in Argentina
• Graciela Silvestri, architect, educator, researcher
• Susana Torre, feminist with academic and practical experience, strong supporter of women's role in architecture
• Itala Fulvia Villa, Buenos Aires urban planner
• Marina Waisman, Premio América laureate in 1987

  Brazil

• Lina Bo Bardi, Italian-born Brazilian modernist architect
• Georgia Louise Harris Brown, African American who spent most of her career in Brazil
• Carla Juaçaba, received the first arcVision prize for Women and Architecture
• Lota de Macedo Soares, self-taught architect and landscape architect emeritus, created the Parque do Flamengo, RJ

  Chile

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

  Colombia

• Luz Amorocho, 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, urban planning architect noted for designing urban spaces for women and marginalized groups
• Giulia Guarino, Italian-born architect, first woman architect in South America