ARCHITECT PROJECT/BIOGRAPHY

CARME PIGEM BARCELO

is a Spanish architect, a member of the Pritzker Prize-winning

architectural firm RCR Arquitectes, together with Ramón
Vilalta and Rafael Aranda.

PUBLIC LIBRARY IN BARCELONA

MAYA YING LIN

is an American designer and artist who is known for her work

in sculpture and land art. She achieved national recognition at the
age of 21 while still an undergraduate at Yale University when her
design was chosen in a national competition for the Vietnam
Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C. It is considered one of the
most influential memorials of the post-World War II period.
VIETNAM VETERANS MEMORIAL
DENISE SCOTT BROWN

is an American architect, planner, writer, educator, and principal

of the firm Venturi, Scott Brown and Associates in Philadelphia.
Scott Brown and her husband and partner, Robert Venturi, are
regarded as among the most influential architects of the twentieth
century, both through their architecture and planning, and
SAINSBURY WING NATIONAL GALLERY, is a theoretical writing and teaching.
notable example of Postmodernist architecture in
Britain
NERI OXMAN

is an American–Israeli architect, designer, and professor at

the MIT Media Lab, where she leads the Mediated Matter
research group. She is known for art and architecture that
combine design, biology, computing, and materials engineering.
On the interplay between design and fabrication methods, she
said "the assumption that parts are made from single materials
and fulfill predetermined functions is deeply rooted in design
enforced by the way that industrial supply chains work.”
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ODILE DECQ

is an award-winning French architect, urban planner and

academic. She is the founder of the Paris firm, Studio Odile Decq

Banque populaire de l’Ouest (BPO)

Rennes, France
AMANDA LEVETE

is a Stirling Prize-winning British architect, and principal of AL A

(Amanda Levete Architects). Levete is credited with making the
Future Systems' organic and conceptual designs a reality.

The Museum of Art, Architecture and Technology

(MAAT) in Lisbon
KAZUYO SEJIMA

is a Japanese architect. She is known for designs with

clean modernist elements such as slick, clean, and shiny surfaces
made of glass, marble, and metals. She also uses squares and
cubes, which can be found in her designs in various degrees. Large
windows allow natural light to enter a space and create a fluid
transition between interior and exterior. It is this connection of
two spaces from which she draws her inspiration.In 2010, she was
LOUVRE LENS an art museum located in Lens, Pas-de- awarded the Pritzker Prize, together with Ryue Nishizawa.
Calais, Northern France,
LOUISE BLANCHARD BETHUNE

was the first American woman known to have worked as a

professional architect. Her best-known design and masterpiece is
the neoclassical Hotel Lafayette.

Lafayette Hotel, is a historic hotel building located

at Buffalo in Erie County, New York.
NORMA MERRICK SKLAREK

was a pioneering African-American architect. Sklarek was the third

black woman to be licensed as an architect in the United States.
She was the first woman to become a licensed architect in the
states of New York (1954) and later the first woman to be licensed
in the state of California (1962).She remained the only licensed
black woman in California until 1980. Author Anna Lewis calls her
"The Rosa Parks of Architecture".
Embassy of the United States
Tokyo, Japan
ZAHA HADID

was an Iraqi-British architect. She was the first woman to receive

the Pritzker Architecture Prize, in 2004. She received the UK's most
prestigious architectural award, the Stirling Prize, in 2010 and
2011. In 2012, she was made a Dame by Elizabeth II for services to
architecture, and in 2015 she became the first and only woman to
be awarded the Royal Gold Medal from the Royal Institute of
British Architects.
Guangzhou Opera House Guangzhou,
China (2003–2010)
JULIA MORGAN

was an American architect. She designed more than 700 buildings

in California during a long and prolific career. She was the first
woman architect licensed in California and was the first woman to
receive the AIA Gold Medal, posthumously in 2014.

Hearst Castle, also called La Casa Grande (“The Big

House”) in San Simeon, California
EILEEN GRAY

was an Irish-born French-based architect and furniture designer

and a pioneer of the Modern Movement in architecture. In the
1970s Gray was made Royal Designer for Industry, Royal Society of
Arts (1972)

Villa E-1027
in Roquebrune-Cap-Martin, France
MARION MAHONY GRIFFIN

was an American architect and artist. She was one of the first
licensed female architects in the world, and is considered an
original member of the Prairie School.

Heritage Hill
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Grand Rapids, MI Architects
ANNA KEICHLINE

was an American architect, inventor, suffragist, and World

War I Special Agent from Pennsylvania. She was the first
registered female architect in Pennsylvania and she was "the
first woman to actually practice architecture professionally".

PLAZA THEATER
Bellefonte, Pennsylvania
JEANNE GANG

is an American architect. She leads Studio Gang Architects,

an architecture and urban design firm based in Chicago and
New York. Gang is recognized as one of the most prominent
architects of her generation. She is known for a design
process that foregrounds the relationships between
individuals, communities, and environments.

AQUA TOWER
Downtown Chicago, Illinois
ANNABELLE SELLDORF

is a German-born architect and founding principal of Selldorf

Architects, a New York City-based architecture practice. She
is a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects (FAIA) and
the recipient of the 2016 AIANY Medal of Honor

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LU WENYU

is a Chinese architect and cofounder, with her husband Wang Shu,

of the firm Amateur Architecture Studio. In 2012, Wang Shu was
awarded the Pritzker Prize for the work the duo completed
together in their firm, Amateur Architecture Studio.

AMATEUR ARCHITECTURE STUDIO

Hangzhou, China