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On 31 March 2016, Hadid died of a heart attack at the age of 65 at Mount Sinai Medical Center in Miami, where she was being treated for bronchitis. [71] [72] 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]
Ida McCain (born 1884, date of death unknown), early female architect active on the West Coast; Margaret McCurry (born 1942), partner with Stanley Tigerman in Tigerman McCurry Architects in Chicago; Marcia Mead (1879–1967), partner in the early female firm Schenck & Mead in New York City; Elise Mercur (1869–1947), early female architect in ...
Born in Laguna in 1922, Cruz's sculptor father, Amado, convinced her to become an architect instead of her original desire to be a dentist. Cruz graduated from the University of Santo Tomas in 1947 with a degree in architecture. She placed seventh in the licensure exam, making her the first registered female architect in the Philippines the ...
The late architect Zaha Hadid, known as 'The Queen of Curves' for her modern curving designs in her buildings, died Thursday at the age of 65.
Carol Roxane Johnson (September 6, 1929 – December 11, 2020) was a landscape architect and educator notable for being one of the first women in her field. She founded Carol R. Johnson Associates, a landscape architecture firm in Boston, and designed large-scale projects throughout the United States.
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.
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]
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]