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Astra Zarina (August 25, 1929 – August 31, 2008) was an architect and professor at the University of Washington. She was born in Riga, in Latvia. She received the Rome Prize of the American Academy in Rome in 1963.[1]
Awards
[edit]- Rome Prize, 1963[1]
- Fulbright fellowship[citation needed]
References
[edit]- 1 2 "Astra Zarina (1929–2008), FAAR'63, was first woman to win Rome Prize in Architecture". Society of Fellows of the American Academy in Rome news. 4 September 2008.
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Categories:
- 1929 births
- 2008 deaths
- Architects from Riga
- University of Washington College of Built Environments alumni
- MIT School of Architecture and Planning alumni
- University of Washington faculty
- Architects from Seattle
- Latvian emigrants to the United States
- Latvian World War II refugees
- 20th-century American architects
- American women architects
- 20th-century American women
- American women academics
- 21st-century American women