Pioneering Women of Architecture
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In honor of Women's History Month, we introduce you to historic women architects who achieved success in spite of hardship and gender discrimination. Their stories span the 19th, 20th and 21st centuries. We believe you will be humbled and inspired.
To continue the movement of diversity and inclusion, we strongly request you encourage girls and young women to follow their dreams of becoming an architect, engineer, landscape architect, surveyor, scientist, a construction professional or another member of our field!
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Louise Blanchard Bethune (1856-1913)
is widely considered to be the first woman to practice as a professional architect in the United States. She participated in the design of approximately 150 buildings in the Buffalo and New England areas in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. She was also the first female member of the American Institute of Architects (AIA) in1888 and the first worman honored as an AIA Fellow in 1889.
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Mary Elizabeth Colter (1869-1958) was an American architect and interior designer whose distinct architectural style was steeped in the imagery, culture, and landscape of the Southwest. As a primary architect for the Fred Harvey Company, she designed hotels, shops, and rest areas along one of the major routes on the Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railway from 1902 until her retirement in 1948. Colter's most well-known projects include the buildings she created in Arizona's Grand Canyon National Park - which demonstrate a commitment to regionally appropriate, site specific architecture and to a desire to integrate Native American construction techniques and design motifs within her work. |
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Norma Merrick Sklarek (1926-2012) was lauded for her numerous pioneering achievements as one of the first African-American women architects in the United States. Her intelligence, talent, and tenacity allowed her to overcome racism and sexism to become a prominent architect and a leader in the profession. She took a civil service job as a junior draftsperson in the City of New York's Department of Public Works. Feeling her talents and skills were underused in the city position, she took the architecture licensing examination in 1954, passing it on her first try and becoming the first licensed African-American woman architect in New York state. |
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Susan Abel Maxman (1938 -) became the first woman elected President of the American Institute of Architects (AIA) in 1992. Her practice has received acclaim for its user-centered, ecologically-conscious work. In 2011, she was named by President Obama to the board of directors of the National Institute of Building Sciences. Maxman was 30 years old and the mother of six children when she enrolled in architecture school. As a student, she challenged her professors' ethos of "high design" in favor of a collaborative and socially engaged design process that gave priority to the needs of the community over the artistic expression of the architect. Her career was influenced by her gender; for example, one client refused "to believe she was an architect until he saw the registration credentials in [her] office."
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Sharon E. Sutton (1941 -) became an architecture educator in 1975; at the University of Michigan, she became the first African-American woman to become a full professor in an accredited architectural degree program. Sutton's focus is community-based participatory research and design with a special emphasis on low-income and minority youth, and other disenfranchised populations. A registered architect, Sutton was the 12th African-American woman to practice architecture (1976), the first to be promoted to full professor of architecture in (1994) and the second to be elected to Fellow in the American Institute of Architects. She received the AIA Medal of Honor from the Seattle (2014) and the New York (2017) Chapters, the highest awards chapters can confer. |
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These ladies are awesome, right? They recognized the importance of education, professional licensure and what it means to respect humanity, our environment, and each other. We want you to achieve your goals as well. Let us help you with
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DID YOU KNOW?
(NCARB Statistics 2019)
Nearly 2 in 5 new architects are women.
Women complete licensure requirements 1.2 years sooner than men.
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