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Dorel Ramirez

Dorel Ramirez is the founder and lead architect of Dorel Ramirez Arquitectos, an architectural firm in Managua, Nicaragua

Considered the first Puerto Rican woman to earn a diploma in architecture (1945), she was also the first Puerto Rican woman to obtain a license to practice architecture and work as a professional architect in Puerto Rico (1945).

Peggy Bawoek

Architect in Suriname

Athala Ojeda Manjra

The first woman architect authorized to work in Fes, Morocco.

Lucha Reyes

Mexican singer Lucha Reyes made a name for herself in the male-dominated cancion ranchera style

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)

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).

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.