As we celebrate Women’s History Month, we recognize the women who have shaped the field of architecture and design.
Below are resources, books, and more that highlight the work and scholarship of women in design:
Resources
- Association for Women in Architecture + Design
- Beverly Willis Architecture Foundation
- Black Females in Architecture
- Feminist Architecture from A to Z – Reading Design
- Futuress
- International Archive of Women in Architecture
- Madame Architect
- Parlour Collective
- Women In Architecture – AIA New York
- Women Writing Architecture
Books (The Best Women-Owned Bookstores in NYC)
- Architecture: A Woman’s Profession by Tanja Kullack
- Candid Reflections: Letters from Women in Architecture, 1972 & 2004 by Doris Cole
- Embodied Utopias: Gender, Social Change and the Modern Metropolis by Amy Bingaman, Lise Sanders, & Rebecca Zorach
- Gender and Architecture: History, Interpretation and Practice by Louise Durning & Richard Wrigley
- Gender Studies in Architecture: Space, Power and Difference by Dörte Kuhlmann
- Marion Mahony Reconsidered by David Van Zanten
- Negotiating Domesticity: Spatial Productions of Gender in Modern Architecture by Hilde Heynen & Gulsum Baydar
- The Architect: Women in Contemporary Architecture by Maggie Toy
- The Feminist Reconstruction of Space by Louise May
- The First American Women Architects by Sarah Allaback
- Women’s Places: Architecture and Design 1860-1960 by Brenda Martin & Penny Sparke
Miscellaneous
- She Builds Podcast
- The Bernard and Anne Spitzer School of Architecture: Spring 2025 Lecture Series – Still Making Space for Gender
- Women in Architecture – Documentary Series
Sources: University at Buffalo, New School of Architecture & Design
