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Maya Lin

Norma Merrick Sklarek

Florence Knoll

Jeanne Gang

Julia Morgan

Denise Scott Brown

Ray Eames

Annabelle Selldorf

Rossana Hu

Zaha Hadid

Suzanne Tick

Eileen Gray

Hella Jongerius

Elizabeth Diller

Patricia Urquiola

Maya Lin

(b. October 1959)

Style: Modernism

Maya Lin was born on October 5, 1959, in Athens, Ohio. She received her bachelor's degree from Yale, where she studied architecture and sculpture. During her senior year she won a nationwide competition to create a design for the Vietnam Veterans Memorial. Her minimalist design aroused controversy but has become very popular with the public over the years. "I like to think of my work as creating a private conversation with each person, no matter how public each work is and no matter how many people are present.”

Vietnam Veteran's Memorial

Wave Field at Storm King

Norma Merrick Sklarek

(b. April 1926 - d. February 2012)

Style: Modernist

Norma Merrick Sklarek, originally from NYC, is the third African American woman to be licensed as an architect in the United States. She was the first woman to become licensed in New York and later the first woman to be licensed in the state of California. Sklarek was also the first Black woman to be elected to the Fellow of the American Institute of Architects (FAIA). She become a role model to many young women entering the male-dominated profession. Sklarek stated, “Architecture should be working on improving the environment of people in their homes, in their places of work, and their places of recreation. It should be functional and pleasant, not just in the image of the architect's ego.”

Pacific Design Center

Terminal 1 at Los Angeles International Airport

Florence Knoll

(b. May 1917 - d. January 2019)

Style: Modernism

Florence Knoll was an American architect, interior designer, furniture designer, and entrepreneur. She has been deemed one of the first to revolutionize office design by bringing modernist design to office interiors. Her design aesthetic was known for it’s clean lines, clear geometries, organic shapes, and color.

Sketch

Jeanne Gang

(b. March 1964)

Style: Postmodernism/Sustainable

American architect and MacArthur Fellow Jeanne Gang is the founding principal of Studio Gang, an architecture and urban design practice based in Chicago and New York. Gang is recognized internationally for her socially engaged design process that foregrounds the relationships between individuals, communities, and environments. Drawing insight from ecological systems, her analytical and creative approach has produced some of today's most compelling architecture, including the Aqua Tower and Nature Boardwalk at Lincoln Park Zoo in Chicago, and the Arcus Center for Social Justice Leadership at Kalamazoo College in Kalamazoo, Michigan. Her current major projects include an expansion of the American Museum of Natural History in New York City and the next United States Embassy in Brasília, Brazil.

Aqua Tower

Nature Boardwalk

Julia Morgan

(b. 1872 - d. 1957)

Style: Classical/Eclectic

Julia Morgan was an American architect and engineer. She designed more than 700 buildings in California during a long and prolific career. She is best known for her work on Hearst Castle in San Simeon, California. Morgan was the first woman to be admitted to the architecture program at l'École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris and the first woman architect licensed in California. Posthumously in 2014, Julia Morgan was also the first woman to receive American Institute of Architects’ highest award, the AIA Gold Medal.

Heart Castle

Berkeley City Club

Denise Scott Brown

(b. 1931)

Style: Postmodernism

Denise Scott Brown is an architect, planner and urban designer, and a theorist, writer and educator whose projects and ideas have influenced several generations of architects over the last half-century. African born and educated in South Africa, England and the US, she worked from 1967- 2012, in collaboration with Robert Venturi, using her experience in interdisciplinary work, teaching and research, to guide the global practice in architecture and urbanism of their firm, Venturi, Scott Brown and Associates. While Scott Brown has retired from designing, she continues to teach and write actively.

Allen Memorial Art Museum

Sainsbury Wing

Ray Eames

(b. December 1912 - d. August 1988)

Style: Mid-Century Modern

A Sacramento, California native who broke barriers during an era of limited opportunities for women in the arts. She graduated in 1933 with a focus on abstract painting and stayed in NYC to work. In 1940, she went on to learn a variety of arts in Bloomfield Hills Michigan, it was there she met Charles Eames. Some of her mediums were graphic design, modern architecture, furniture, films, toys, photography, textiles, exhibition design and more. Ray had a 60-year career in the arts and was significant in history as one of the 20th century’s most influential – yet largely unknown – artists, whose influence continues to shape design today. In celebration of what would have been Ray's 100th birthday, Vitra renamed a street at its Basel Campus "Ray-Eames-Strasse 1" in her honor. “I never gave up painting, I just changed my palette” — Ray Eames

Case Study House

Molded Plywood Chair

Rossana Hu

Style: Modernism

Rossana Hu is a Founding Partner of Neri&Hu Design and Research Office, an inter-disciplinary international architectural design practice based in Shanghai, China. Aside from Architecture and Interiors, together with her partner Mr. Neri, Ms. Rossana Hu, is actively working on a number of industrial design products for various brands. Hu believes strongly in research as a design tool, as each project bears its unique set of contextual issues. A critical probing into the specificities of program, site, function, and history is essential to the creation of rigorous design work. Based on research, Neri&Hu desires to anchor its work on the dynamic interaction of experience, detail, material, form, and light rather than conforming to a formulaic style. On The Waterhouse project, one of their first architectural works, she states “Urban memory should be preserved; saving a building the city thought was not worth saving and through design and an idea of reflective nostalgia, brought that building towards the future.”

Stellar Works - Utility Collection

The Waterhouse at South Bund, Shanghai

Zaha Hadid

(b. October 1950- d. March 2016)

Style: Neo-Modernism/Parametricism

Born in Baghdad, Zaha Hadid was an Iraqi-British Architect. She was the first woman to receive the Pritzker Architecture prize in 2004. She was described as the “Queen of the curve” and also known as the inventor of the “89 degrees”. Hadid famously said, “I’m sure that as a woman I can do a very good sky scraper. I don’t think that it’s only for men.”

Heydar Aliyev Cultural Center

11-story condo complex on New York City's High Line

Annabelle Selldorf

(b. 1960)

Style: Minimalistic

Annabelle Selldorf is a German-born architect and founding principal of Selldorf Architects, a New York City-based architecture practice. She received a Bachelor of Architecture degree from Pratt Institute and a Master of Architecture degree from Syracuse University in Florence, Italy. She is a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects and serves on the Board of the Architectural League of New York, the World Monuments Fund, the Chinati Foundation, and the Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College. In 2017, Ms. Selldorf was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters, three years after receiving the organization’s prestigious Award in Architecture. She is also the recipient of the 2016 Medal of Honor from the American Institute of Architecture New York Chapter.

10 Bond Street

Neue Gallery

Eileen Gray

(b. 1878 - d. 1976)

Style: Modernism

Eileen Gray, an Irishwoman, was one of the leading members of the modern design movement. Renowned in France during the early decades of the 20th Century as a designer in lacquer furniture and interiors, she then began to experiment with architectural forms in the late 1920s. Her architectural work included the famous E.1027 home in Roquebrune, Cap Martin in 1929 and the apartment in Rue Chateabriand in 1931 as well as her own home, Tempe à Pailla, in Castellar in 1934.

S Chair

E-1027 House

Hella Jongerius

(b. May 1963)

Style: Modernism

A Dutch industrial designer that dares to play with a rich palatte. “Color can bring richness, beauty and ambiguity to design, if it is used well. But most designers use the same colors again and again, mostly ones that are too bright, too kitschy, too gray, or too cold.” Her design focuses on combining opposites; for example, new technology and handmade objects, industrial manufacturing and craftsmanship, and the traditional and the contemporary. She has an issue with ephemeral, low-quality objects put out into the world. "It's not the design that is the real issue but the amount that is being produced, that is where the evil starts; it just doesn't really add anything to the world."Jongerius follows the ideals of long-termism. She sees this as a solve for the wastefulness of design.

Multitone Rug for Maharam

Design Academy Eindhoven

Elizabeth Diller

(b. June 1954)

Style: Neo-Modernism/Parametricism

Elizabeth Diller is the sole female partner for the New York-based firm Diller Scofidio + Renfro. Her firm was put into the spotlight for its design of the High Line on the west side of Manhattan. She is an advocate for architects starting and raising families, as well as equality of pay and opportunities. Diller is currently a professor at Princeton, she states, “I like to teach not what I know, but what I don’t know…What I want to impart to the students is that possibility that you’re not there to receive someone else’s hand-me-down programs: you can make them up yourself.”

The Shed

London Centre for Music - Concept

Suzanne Tick

Style: Modernism

As the founder of Suzanne Tick Inc., Suzanne Tick specializes in materials, brand strategy, and design development for interiors. Tick has a distinguished career as a textile designer, design consultant for Tarkett, Creative Partner at Lumm, and Design Partner with Skyline Design. Suzanne is also known for her hand-weaving practice and sustainability, the materials in her weavings are typically discarded objects; Tick states, “The beauty of altering the state of found materials engages the mind in a totally different way. There’s this natural perfection when you don’t try to control things and let the material be the material.”

Weaving Temple Emanu-el Commission

Skyline Design Transcend Shift Grid

Patricia Urquiola

(b. 1961)

Style: Modernism

Spanish by birth, and Italian by choice, Patricia Urquiola was born in Oviedo, Spain 12th of May 1961 and studied architecture in Madrid before graduating from the Milan Politecnico in 1989. She is a famed Architect, Interior Designer and Furniture (object) designer and is one of the well-known representatives of eclecticism. Her work is widely known to be playful and poestic, yet pragmatic and functional. She has collaborated on countless projects with some of the best! She currently runs Studio Urquiola in Milan and has some of her product on display in the permanent collection of Moma New York.

Shimmer Table

Mandarin Oriental Barcelona

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