In honor of our all-female teams for tonight’s Architect Duel, here's an overview of famous female architects through the years:

Julia Morgan (1872-1957) The first woman to graduate from Paris' elite Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Julie Morgan's private and public buildings are synonymous with early Californian style, being the chief architect for William Randolph Hearst, creating the Hearst Castle in San Simeon and the Los Angeles Examiner Building. Also, along with contemporaries Greene and Greene, was a main supplier of Pasadena's signature “ultimate bungalow” style homes.

Lina Bo Bardi (1914-1992) Shouldering setbacks in her early career, the Italian Bardi originally focused her energies on her national communist party. It took moving to Brazil for her to complete her many masterworks, including her Glass House in Morumbi and the Sao Paulo Art Museum, with its creative use of pillars to allow for an impressive amount of open space within.

Zaha Hadid (1950-) An extremely popular and inventive architect, Hadid is one of the big names of modern architecture. Having studied in Beirut and London, Hadid worked with Rem Koolhaas before starting out on her own. Although many of her prize-winning designs were famously never built, she has projects constructed around the world (a favorite being the Phaeno Science Center in Wolfsburg, Hadid has been sought after to teach at practically every notable Architecture school in the world, and has one countless awards. Most notably, she became the first woman to win the Pritzker Architecture Prize, architecture's Nobel Prize equivalent, in 2004. In 2006, the Guggenheim honored her with a career-spanning retrospective.

Elizabeth Diller (1950-) Graduating from Cooper Union School of Architecture in 1979, Diller joined forces with her husband, Ricardo Scofidio. They have since received many awards including the “genius grant” MacArthur Prize, becoming the first architects to do so. In 2002, they completed the “Blur Building“, a lake pavilion entirely enveloped in mist, at that year's Swiss Expo. She continues to design and teach at Princeton.