(b Puan, Argentina, 2 Nov 1944). American architect and teacher. She graduated in architecture from the University of Buenos Aires in 1967 and studied at Columbia University, New York (1968–9). She was a principal of the Architectural Studio in New York from 1978 to 1984 and formed an independent practice in 1990. Torre also held academic appointments at Columbia, Yale and Syracuse universities and at Cooper Union, New York. She became an American citizen in 1989. From the beginning of her career, Torre was concerned with the status of women in architecture, studying the history of the subject and advocating a fuller participation of women in the field. Her work is strongly engaged in a dialogue of Modernist and Post-modernist forms. Fire Station Five (1987), Columbus, IN, for example, is a composition of geometric forms in which pitched roofs appear to form a pediment above a cylindrical tower (containing stairs and fireman’s pole), which is reminiscent of Midwestern farm silos. Clark House (c. 1980), South Hampton, NY, is a renovation of a shingled carriage house of 1917. This project and a private residence (c. 1980) in Amangansett, NY, combine monumentality with intimate domesticity. Torre described the latter house, the circular form of which echoed the path of the sun, as ‘a sun porch attached to a tower’ (Lorenz). Torre’s involvement with architectural history informed her renovation (1985) of Schermerhorn Hall, Columbia University, a structure built by McKim, Mead & White in 1896. To rectify a brutal renovation of 1939, Torre partially restored, or rather evoked, the building’s original spacious vestibule and stairway. According to Boles this renovation ‘relates new and old through a system of proportional reckoning’.