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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"
The statement issued by her London-based design studio announcing her death read, "Zaha Hadid was widely regarded to be the greatest female architect in the world today". [73] She is buried between her father Mohammed Hadid and brother Foulath Hadid in Brookwood Cemetery in Brookwood, Surrey, England. [74]
The AIA National Associates Committee Report from 2004 gives the percentage of licensed female architects as 20%. In 2003, an AIA Women in Architecture study found that women accounted for 27% of staff in U.S. architecture firms. [117] The honorific FAIA was held by 174 women and 2,199 men, or roughly 8% in 2005. [118]
Jeanne Gang (born March 19, 1964) is an American architect and the founder and leader of Studio Gang (established in 1997), an architecture and urban design practice with offices in Chicago, New York, San Francisco, and Paris.
Julia Morgan (January 20, 1872 – February 2, 1957) was an American architect and engineer. [1] [2] She designed more than 700 buildings in California during a long and prolific career. [3]
When Robert Venturi was named as winner of the 1991 Pritzker Architecture Prize, [16] Scott Brown did not attend the award ceremony in protest. [17] The prize organization, the Hyatt Foundation, stated that, in 1991, it honored only individual architects, a practice that changed in 2001 with the selection of Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron. [17]
Marina Tabassum (born 1968 or 1969) [1] is a Bangladeshi architect. [2] She is the principal architect of Marina Tabassum Architects. In 2016, she won the Aga Khan Award for Architecture for the design of Bait-ur-Rouf Mosque in Dhaka, Bangladesh. [3]
She is the "half" niece of Lin Huiyin, who was an American-educated artist and poet, and said to have been the first female architect in modern China. [5] Lin Juemin and Lin Yin Ming, both of whom were among the 72 martyrs of the Second Guangzhou uprising , were cousins of her grandfather. [ 6 ]