Caroline Barla
Caroline Barla is the second woman registered as an architect with L’Ordre National des Architectes du Cameroun (1986).
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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
Marie Krøyer
Danish painter Marie Krøyer’s first marriage was to one of the most famous painters in Danish history. It was not until after her daughter’s death in 1986 that Marie’s own art gained recognition, as her paintings were among the estate and were eventually collected by the Skagens Museum in Skagen, Denmark.
Victorine du Pont Homsey
Victorine du Pont Homsey, FAIA, earned a master’s degree in architecture from Smith College in 1925. With her husband, she founded an architectural firm in Wilmington, Delaware, in 1929 and was in practice for fifty years.
Louisa Beaufort
1800s Welsh antiquarian, artist, entomologist and writer
Elizabeth Coldicutt
Beth Coldicutt taught in the Faculties of Engineering and Architecture, University of Melbourne 1939-1979, beginning as a senior demonstrator and ending as a Reader.
Marion Mahony Griffin
American architect