Architect
Name: Christine Fahringer Salmon
Date of Birth / Location: July 22, 1916 / Audenried, Pennsylvania
Date of Death / Location: October 10, 1985 / Stillwater, Oklahoma
Education: Bachelor's of Architecture, University of Pennsylvania, 1941; Master's of Architecture, University of Pennsylvana, 1943
Date of Death / Location: Perkins, Wheeler & Will, 1943-1947; Founder, Salmon and Salmon (with her husband)
Professional Organizations & Activities: Chicago Planning Commission; First woman admitted to the Pennsylvania Chapter of the American Institute of Architects; First woman elected Mayor in Stillwater, Oklahoma; American Institute of Architects National Housing Commission, 1969-1985; Stillwater Planning Commission 1973-1978; Visting Professor at Ohio State University, Texas Tech University, University of Iowa, University of Nebraska; Associate Professor, Oklahoma State University College of Home Economics
Jane Leoncavallo Hough- Courtesy of Bennington College
Name: Jane Leoncavallo Hough
Education: Graduated from Bennington College, 1959. Went to the Harvard Graduate School of Design the next year.
Date of Death / Location: Hyatt International; Skidmore, Owings and Merril (SOM); John Portman's Hotel Company in Atlanta; Hough Associates Architects; Project Director at US Department of State 1990
Professional Organizations & Activities: Joined the AIA in 1972
Awards & Honors: Joined AIA IN 1972.
Members of the T-Square Society. (Bertha Yerex
Name: Ruth H. Perkins
Date of Death / Location: February, 2009
Education: Bachelor's of Architecture, University of Michigan
Date of Death / Location: February, 2009
Professional Organizations & Activities: First woman to recieve a degree in architecture from the University of Michigan. Obtained her Illinois architect's license in 1929. Perkins served as an architectural engineer with the army ordinace department during WWII, designing buildings for the manufacture and storage of munitions. Member of the Western Society of Engineers and the American Institute of Architects.
Alberta Raffl Pfeiffer- courtesy of Un Dia Una Arquitecta 4
Name: Alberta Raffl Pfeiffer
Date of Birth / Location: September 17, 1899 / Red Bud, Illinois
Date of Death / Location: August 5, 1994 / East Haddam, Connecticut
Education: Bachelor's of Architecture, University of Illinois School of Architecture at Champaign-Urbana, 1923. Pfeiffer graduated first in her class. After working for a year, she returned to the University of Illinois for graduate work.
Date of Death / Location: Tallmadge and Watson, 1923-1925, Chicago. After completeing some graduate work, Pfeiffer moved to New York (c. 1925) and worked at the firm Harrie T. Lindberg. Sometime in the early 1930s, Alberta and her husband, Homer F. Pfeiffer, established their own practice in Hadlyme, Connecticut. After WWII, Alberta established her own private practice, which occupied her until her retirement in 1977.
Awards & Honors: Pfeiffer was the first woman to win the American Institute of Architects School Medal.
Grace Wilson, featured in the Champaign-Urbana News Gazette on February 2, 1957- Courtesy of University of Illinois
Name: Grace Wilson
Date of Birth / Location: October 15, 1907
Date of Death / Location: February 28, 2005
Education: Bachelor of Science in Architecture, University of Illinois, 1931; Master's of Science in Architecture, 1942
Professional Organizations & Activities: Worked in Chicago 1931-1941. Member of W.A.C. Air Transport Command, 1944-1945. Moved to Champaign to teach high school, taught university in 1946 with the Department of General Engineering as an instructor. Member of many professional societies and helped organize and advise the student chapter of the Women’s Engineering Society in 1961. First female assistant professor in Engineering at the University of Illinois.
Name: Barbara Armstrong
Name: Barbara A. Koenig
Professional Organizations & Activities: Joined AIA in 1978.
Name: Alice Rebechini Wolfe
Date of Death / Location: Project Management Advisors
Professional Organizations & Activities: Joined AIA IN 1977.
Name: Laura A. Horstman Fisher
Date of Birth / Location: 1953 / Evanston, Illinois
Education: Bachelor's of Architecture, Virginia Tech; Master's of Business Administration - Finance, University of Chicago,1981
Date of Death / Location: Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM), 1974-1975; Continential Illinois National Bank, 1976-1977; Texan Commerce Bancshares 1977-1982; Allied Banchares 1982-1986
Professional Organizations & Activities: Founding Member, Chicago Women in Architecture (CWA); Foundation Board Member Chicago Women in Architecture (CWA); Board of Directors, American Institute of Architects, 2003-2008; Fellow of the American Institute of Architects, 2003
Awards & Honors: Young Architect of the Year, American Institute of Architects, 1986
Margaret McCurry
Name: Margaret McCurry
Date of Birth / Location: September, 1942 / Chicago, Illinois
Education: Art History degree, Vassar College, 1964; Loeb Fellowship in Advanced Environmental Studies, Graduate School of Design at Harvard University.
Date of Death / Location: McCurry worked for Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM) where she was mentored for 11 years by Davis Allen. McCurry had her own firm from 1977-1982, then she joined up with her husband Stanley Tigerman to form Tigerman McCurry (1982-2017).
Professional Organizations & Activities: Package Design Coordinator, Quaker Oats, 1964, SOM. AIA Chair for Committee on Design; American Society of Interior Designers VP; Interior Design Hall of Fame, 1990; ASID Designer of Distinction, 2002; International Interior Design Association Fellowship, 2012. In 2012, she was elevated to Fellow by the International Interior Design Association. Professionally, McCurry has served as Vice-President of the Chicago Chapter and Chair of the National AIA Committee on Design. She also served as Vice-President of the Illinois Chapter of ASID. She serves on the boards of the Architecture and Design Society as well as the Textile Department at the Art Institute of Chicago and is a member of The Women’s Board as well as the Visiting Committee of the Divinity School at the University of Chicago. She has been President of the Alumni/ae Council of the Graduate School of Design at Harvard University also serving a six year term as a Director of the Harvard Alumni/ae Association and a two year term as President of the Harvard Club of Chicago overseeing the publication of the book 150 Years of the Harvard Club of Chicago: 1857-2007.
Awards & Honors: McCurry is the recipient of many Honor Awards from the National AIA, numerous Distinguished Building and Interior Architecture Awards from the Chicago Chapter, and both National and Local Interior Design Project Awards from the American Society of Interior Designers (ASID). In 1989 she was awarded the Dean of Architecture Award, in 1990 she was inducted into the Interior Design Hall of Fame and was named “The Designer of Distinction” in 2002 by ASID and in 2009 Traditional Home Magazine named McCurry an “Icon of Design.”