Mónica Ponce de León
Born in Caracas, Venezuela, Mónica Ponce de León is the first woman and first Latin American to serve as dean of the School of Architecture at Princeton University in Princeton, New Jersey (2016-2025).
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Georgette Cottin-Euziol
Georgette Cottin-Euziol was a French-Algerian architect known as one of the first professional women architects in France and Algeria.
Antonieta Cândida Pires Jacinto
Antonieta Jacinto was a Luso-Angolan architect who is considered the first African-born Portuguese woman to hold a diploma in architecture, and the first woman born in Angola to become an architect.
Julia Guarino Fiechter
Julia Guarino Fiechter is considered the first professional woman architect in Uruguay.
Charmelle Sèmènou Alavo
Charmelle Sèmènou Alavo is the Founder of Sharm’s Concept, a design agency located in Cotonou, Littoral, Benin.
Caroline Barla
Caroline Barla is the second woman registered as an architect with L’Ordre National des Architectes du Cameroun (1986).
Filandia Pizzul
Filandia Pizzul was the first woman to graduate with a diploma in architecture from the University of Buenos Aires in Argentina (1928).
Denise Scott Brown
Architect Denise Scott Brown, who won the Soane Medal in 2018 for the “global influence” of her work, was deliberately excluded when her husband won the Pritzker in 1991 for work that everyone knew they had collaborated on together.
Ray Eames
While Charles Eames was the public face of their architecture and furniture design partnership, he was always quick to acknowledge his wife, Ray, as an equal, or even superior, saying “Anything I can do, Ray can do better.”
Aino Aalto
Finnish designer