Daphne Elizabeth Brown (1948–2011) was an American architect who was posthumously inducted into the Alaska Women's Hall of Fame and awarded the Kumin Award from the American Institute of Architects, the highest recognition for architectural achievement in Alaska.
[1] In 1975, Brown moved to Alaska and began her career working for Edwin Butler Crittenden at CCC Architects in Anchorage.
[3] She was honored with a Loeb fellowship from the Harvard Graduate School of Design in 1989.
[4] In 2002,[5] she began work on a project to expand and renovate the Anchorage Museum at Rasmuson Center.
Brown's role in the project was to ensure that the design met with the "technical, climatic, structural, and seismic" requirements of Anchorage codes and conditions,[6] She served as the overall project manager of the 90,000 sq ft addition and remodeling of the existing space.