Women Architects of European descent

Women in Architecture focusses on queer, Black and Indigenous women, and women of color in architecture. Our timeline of architects centers these women on the homepage. On this page, we have also provided a list of women architects of European descent. The list of architects celebrates and remembers women who have been forgotten in today's architectural discourse. The list is a general guideline and timeline of women architects in the US and abroad and is by no means complete.  Together, we can work on building a resource to be used by current and future students whose interests are similar to our objective.  

In the USA

Late 19th Century

Marion Mahony, b. 1871, American

Julia Morgan, b. 1872, American

Eleanor Raymond, b.1887, American

Lilian Rice, b. 1889, American

Early to Mid 20th Century

practicing at home or in the public realm with husband in partnerships

Victorine Homsey, b.1900 in 1929 with Samuel Homsey, American

Elizabeth Sche, b. 1912 in 1938 with Winston Close, American

Sarah Pillsbury Harkness, b. 1914 with John C. Harkness (7 children), American

Jean Bodman Fletcher, b. 1915 with Norman Collings Fletcher (6 children), American 

practicing in California  

Lutah Maria Riggs, b. 1896, American

Elsa Gidoni, b. 1901, German 

Elda Muir, b. 1906, American

Greta Magnusson-Grossman, b. 1906, Swedish

Lucille Raport b. 1914, American

Corporate Careers

Elizabeth Coit, b. 1897, American

Catherine Bauer, b. 1905, American

Cloethiel Woodard Smith, b. 1910, American

Natalie de Blois, b. 1921, American

Mid to Late 20th Century

Chloethiel Woodard Smith, b. 1910, American

Aleksandra Kasuba, b. 1923, Installation Artist, Lithuanian-born American

Late 20th Century to Early 21st Century

Mary Otis Stevens, b. 1928, American

Denise Scott Brown, , b. 1931, South African-born American

Valerie Batorewicz, b. 1936, American

Laurinda Spear, b. 1950, American

Western Architectural Canon

late 19th Century to Early 20th Century

PARTNERSHIPS

Margaret Macdonald, b. 1864 and Charles Rennie Mackintosh, British

Marion Lucy Mahony Griffin, b.1871 and Frank Lloyd Wright,  American

Eileen Grey, b.1878 and Jean Badovici, French

Lilly Reich, b.1885 and  Mies Van Der Rohe, German

Margarete Schutte-Lihotzky, b.1897 Austrian and  Ernst May, German

Aino Aalto, b. 1894 and Aalvar Aalto, Finnish 

Bauhaus Women

Benita Otte (textile artist), b.1892, German

Marianne Brandt (painter, sculptor, photographer, designer, metalworker), b.1893, German

Marguerite Friedlaender-Wildenhain (ceramicist), b.1896, French

Ilse Fehling (sculptor and set designer), b.1896, Polish

Gunta Stölzl (textile artist), b.1897, German

Alma Siedhoff-Buscher (toy maker), b.1899, German 

Anni Albers (textile artist, printmaking ), b.1899, German

Otti Berger (textile artist), b.1898, Croatian

Gertrud Arndt (photographer, textile, designer), b.1903, Polish

Early to Mid 20th Century 

PARTNERSHIPS

Charlotte Perriand, b.1903 and Le Corbusier, French

Ray Eames, b.1912 and Charles Eames, American

Anne Tyng, b. 1920 and Louis Kahn, Chinese born American

Cini Boeri, b.1921 and Gio Ponti, Italian

Elisabeth Böhm, 1921 and Gottfried Böhm, German

Zoe Zenghelis, b. 1937 and Elia Zenghelis, Greek

Madelon Vriesendorp, b. 1945 and Rem Koolhaas, Dutch

Anna Bofill, b. 1944 and Ricardo Bofill, Catalan Spanish

Christine Hawley, b. 1949 and Peter Cook, British