Susana Torre is an Argentine-born American architect, critic, and educator. Torre graduated from Universidad de La Plata and Universidad de Buenos Aires in 1967 and in 1968 completed postgraduate work at Columbia University. Torre organized and curated the first major exhibition of American women architects in 1977 and edited the book under the same title as the exhibition, Women in American Architecture: A Historic and Contemporary Perspective , in the same year. Torre has won numerous awards for designs and scholarly work, including The National Endowment for the Humanities, The National Endowment for the Arts, The National Gallery, and The Architectural Record Houses Award of Excellence for Design.