Pioneering Women of American Architecture is a collection of profiles of fifty women who have made important contributions to American architecture.

This site was created and is maintained by Chuck LaChiusa as a public service. It features short biographies of historical architects who practiced in Buffalo and their buildings.

Overlooked is a series of obituaries about remarkable people whose deaths, beginning in 1851, went unreported in The Times. Louise Bethune was featured on November 4, 2021.

Three architectural scholars and practitioners are working to bring the hidden stories of women in architecture to life. They will share the challenges they faced writing biographies of women architects because of how they were marginalized in the profession for decades.

She Builds Podcast is a podcast featuring the seldom told stories of women who build; women whose worth is not taught in schools, but who have shaped the industries of architecture, construction, and development over the last century.

The trailblazing legacies left behind by these local architects is an inspiration to all. Read more about architects like Louise Bethune, E.B. Green, and Frank Lloyd Wright.