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Phyllis Birkby (1932–1994), practicing architect, educator and proponent of women's role in architecture; Norma Bonniwell (1877–1961), worked with her father in North Carolina; India Boyer (1907–1998), first female architect in Ohio; Louise Braverman (born 1948), New York-based architect who is a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects
At 363 metres (1,191 ft) tall, Jeanne Gang's St. Regis Chicago is currently the tallest building in the world designed by a woman. This list ranks skyscrapers by height which were designed by women working as primary architects or design coordinators.
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.
List of women artists exhibited at the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition; White Rabbits (sculptors), a group of women who created statues for the Horticultural Building; World's Congress of Representative Women, a week-long convention for the voicing of women's concerns, held at the Fair in May 1893
Natalie Griffin de Blois (April 2, 1921 – July 22, 2013) was an American architect. Entering the field in 1944, she became one of the earliest prominent women in the male-dominated profession.
See List of female architects#United States, which may roughly correspond to this category, but may also include women who do not yet have separate Wikipedia articles (may show as wp:redlinks, or may link to architectural firms where they work) and women who have lesser associations with architecture that are not properly categorized as architects (e.g., women with an architectural degree who ...
Chicago has the second-tallest skyline in the United States after New York City, and leads the nation in the twenty tallest women-designed towers in the world, thanks to contributions by Jeanne Gang and Natalie de Blois. As of December 2019, Chicago had 125 buildings at least 500 feet (152 m) tall. [5]
Elisabeth A. Martini (1886–1984) [1] was an American architect who was a member of the second generation of women architects in Chicago. [2] She was the first woman to be the sole owner of an architectural firm in Chicago, and she founded the Chicago Drafting Club, one of the first organizations for women architects and a precursor of the Women's Architectural Club founded by Juliet Peddle ...