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

Africa

Egypt

Kenya

Niger

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

Nigeria

Senegal

  • Nzinga Biegueng Mboup, architect, own practice

South Africa

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

Uganda

Zambia

Asia

Armenia

Azerbaijan

Bangladesh

China

  • Huang Hui
  • Lin Huiyin (1904–1955), first known Chinese female architect
  • Jing Liu (born 1981), co-founder of the New York design office SO-IL
  • Xu Tiantian (born 1975), founder of DnA Design and Architecture; has participated in China's rural revitalizing process through her “architectural acupuncture"
  • Lu Wenyu, whose husband Wang Shu won the Priztker Prize for the work the duo completed together in their firm (and whose sole attribution of the prize generated some controversy)

India

Indonesia

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

Iran

Iraq

Israel

Japan

Jordan

Korea

  • Sun-Young Rieh, practicing architect and professor at the University of Seoul

Lebanon

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

Mongolia

Nepal

Pakistan

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

Palestine

Saudi Arabia

  • Nadia Bakhurji, interior architect, holds several administrative positions

Singapore

Sri Lanka

Taiwan

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

Thailand

Turkey

Australasia

Australia

New Zealand

  • Kate Beath (1882–1979), probably the first female architect in New Zealand
  • Felicity Brenchley, architect
  • Justine Clark, New Zealand-born architectural editor, writer, speaker and researcher
  • Julia Gatley, architect, educator, writer
  • Jackie Gillies, specialist in heritage buildings and conservation architecture
  • Lucy Greenish (1888–1976), first woman to be a Registered Architect in New Zealand
  • Min Hall, first female architecture graduate at Victoria University of Wellington
  • Dorita Hannah, architect, educator whose work spans the spatial, visual and performing arts
  • Charmaine 'Ilaiū Talei, architect, academic, including projects in many Pacific Islands
  • Gill Matthewson (fl. from 1984), architect, educator, writer
  • Joanna Merwood-Salisbury, architectural historian
  • Margaret Munro (1914–2005) first woman to establish architectural career in Christchurch
  • Nancy Northcroft (1913-1980) architect and town planner
  • June Pallot (1953–2004), registered architect and professor of accounting
  • Renate Prince (1929– ), German born, New Zealand trained architect. Also worked in the United Kingdom.
  • Anne Salmond (architect), architect
  • Lynda Simmons, architect, educator, writer
  • Alison Sleigh (1898–1972), first New Zealand woman to attain membership of the Royal Institute of British Architects
  • Felicity Wallace, architect
  • Dorothy Wills (1911–2007) second woman to be a Registered Architect in New Zealand
  • Megan Wraight (1961–2020), New Zealand landscape architect

Europe

Albania

  • Valentina Pistoli (1928-1993), first Albanian female architect
  • Doris Andoni (born 1961), architect and housing policy expert
  • Vera Bushati (born 1946), architect, engineer, historian and professor

Austria

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

Belarus

  • Lyubow Usava (1921–2015), state architect who helped restore the Minsk after WWII

Belgium

Bosnia and Herzegovina

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

Bulgaria

Croatia

Czech Republic

Denmark

Estonia

Finland

  • Aino Aalto (1894–1949), first wife of Alvar Aalto using the Functionalist style, later turning to interiors
  • Elissa Aalto (1922–1994), second wife of Alvar Aalto, with whom she designed the opera house in Essen
  • Elsa Arokallio (1892–1982), after her husband died, ran her own business
  • Elsi Borg (1893–1958), after graduating in 1919, designed a hospital and a church
  • Elna Kiljander (1889–1970), early female architect active in Functionalism
  • Saija Hollmén (born 1970), founding partner of Hollmén Reuter Sandman
  • 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), pioneering Finnish architect and wife of architect Hilding Ekelund
  • 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 (1926–1993), closely cooperated with husband Raili Pietilä
  • Jenni Reuter (born 1972), founding partner of Hollmén Reuter Sandman
  • Helena Sandman (born 1972), founding partner of Hollmén Reuter Sandman
  • Ebba-Stina Schalin-Hult (1913–1999), active in Stockholm
  • Kaija Siren (1920–2001), worked with her husband Heikki Siren

France

Germany

Greece

  • Souzána Antonakáki (1935–2020), founder of Atelier 66 in Athens
  • Alexandra Paschalidou-Moreti (1912–2010), designed pavilions for international exhibitions
  • Rena Sakellaridou (born 1955), cofounded the Greek architecture firm SPARCH; author, and professor of Architectural Design at The Aristotle University of Thessaloniki

Hungary

Iceland

Ireland

Italy

Luxembourg

Malta

Montenegro

Netherlands

Norway

Poland

  • Barbara Bielecka (born 1931), designed the Basilica of Our Lady of Licheń, Poland's largest church
  • Karola Bloch (1905–1994), worked in Austria, the United States and Germany
  • Barbara Brukalska (1899–1980), Functionalist architect, educator
  • Adrienne Górska (1899–1969), Russian-born Polish architect working in Paris
  • Zofia Garlińska-Hansen (1924–2013), architect who worked in Poland with husband Oskar Hansen
  • Jadwiga Grabowska-Hawrylak (1920–2018), first woman to be awarded the Honorary Award of the Association of Polish Architects (SARP)
  • Marya Lilien (1900 or 1901–1998), architect and university professor, the first woman architect to apprentice under Frank Lloyd Wright
  • Helena Syrkus (1900–1982), architect, urban planner and professor, an editor of Athens Charter

Portugal

  • Maria José Marques da Silva (1914–1996), first female architecture graduate from Porto's School of Fine Arts
  • Ana Louisa Soares (born 1988), architect, own practice

Romania

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

Russia

Serbia

Slovenia

Spain

Sweden

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

Switzerland

Turkey

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

United Kingdom

North America

Belize

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

Canada

Cuba

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

Puerto Rico

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

B

C

D

E

F

G

H

I

J

K

L

M

N

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

O

P

R

S

T

V

W

Y

Z

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

South America

Argentina

Brazil

  • Lina Bo Bardi (1914–1992), Italian-born Brazilian modernist architect
  • Georgia Louise Harris Brown (1918–1999), African American who spent most of her career in Brazil
  • Carla Juaçaba (born 1976), received the first arcVision prize for Women and Architecture
  • Lota de Macedo Soares (1910–1967), self-taught architect and landscape architect emeritus, created the Parque do Flamengo, RJ
  • Carmen Portinho (1903–2001), the third woman to graduate as an engineer in Brazil and later designed the Museum of Modern Art, Rio de Janeiro with Affonso Eduardo Reidy
  • Mayumi Watanabe Lima (1934–1994), architect and educator

Chile

  • Sophia Hayden (1868-1953), the first female graduate of the four-year program in architecture at MIT.
  • Antonia Lehmann (born 1955), first woman to receive National Architecture Prize in Chile.
  • Glenda Kapstein Lomboy (1939–2008), architect who won the 2003 PLEA Lifetime Achievement Awards for "sustainable architecture and urban design"
  • Joan MacDonald (born 1941), Deputy Ministre of Housing and Urbanism in Chile from 1990 until 1994
  • Margarita Pisano (1932–2015), architect, writer, and feminist theorist
  • Cecilia Puga (born 1961), architect, educator, and director of the Chilean Museum of Pre-Columbian Art
  • Dora Riedel (1906–1982), the first Chilean woman to receive a degree in architecture
  • Rocio Romero (born 1971), prefabrication, kit home designer
  • Sofía von Ellrichshausen (born 1976), Argentinian-born architect, cofounder of art and architecture studio Pezo von Ellrichshausen
  • Sonia Tschorne (born 1954), architect and Minister of Housing, Urban Development and National Assets from 2004 until 2006

Colombia

Paraguay

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

Uruguay

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

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