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Margaret Justin Blanco White

Architect Margaret Justin Blanco White dropped her first name while working in the U.K. from the 1930s onward, including as Superintending Architect of the Scottish Office.

In 2013, the Gottfried Semper Architekturpreis was initially awarded only to Matthias Sauerbruch of Sauerbruch Hutton, without acknowledging equal founding partner Louisa Hutton—a decision that was later reversed when Sauerbruch objected.

Lu Wenyu

Chinese architect

Arinda da Cruz Sobral

Arinda da Cruz Sobral was the first woman to graduate with a diploma in architecture from the Escola Nacional de Belas Artes in Rio de Janeirol (c. 1914)

Rudylynn De Four Roberts

Rudylynn Da Four Roberts is the first woman president of the Trinidad and Tobago Institute of Architects (1995–1997)

Dr Dora Riedel

Dora Riedel was the first woman to earn a diploma in architecture in Chile and in South America (1930), and one of the first women to obtain a license to professionally practice architecture in Chile.

Doris Mary Clark Núñez

Doris Mary Clark Núñez is considered the first Peruvian woman architect. She was also the first woman to study at the Escuela de Ingenieros del Perú (School of Engineering of Peru) in Lima, Peru (1924).

Gwendoline Albright Ndikumagenge

Burundian architect

Luz Amorocho

María Luz Amorocho Carreño was the first woman to earn a diploma in architecture in Colombia (1945), graduating from the School of Architecture at the National University of Colombia in Bogotá.

Guadalupe Ibarra

Guadalupe Ibarra was the first Ecuadorian woman to hold a diploma in architecture (1970).