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== Frances Halsband (born October 30, 1943, in New York City) is an American architect. She received her B.A. at Swarthmore College in 1965 and a Master's from Columbia University in 1968. Previously, Halsband attended The Juilliard School to play piano. She is a founding partner of architectural firm Kliment Halsband, which was established in 1972. She has served on juries for design awards, chaired the 1999 American Institute of Architects Committee on Design, and served as AIA New York’s first woman president in 1991. Halsband was the Dean of the School of Architecture at Pratt beginning September 1991. On June 8, 2019, Halsband was elected to be the Secretary of the Executive Committee of the AIA College of Fellows. ==

In 2014, Halsband was recognized for her work designing the Long Island Rail Road Entrance, New York Penn Station, a winning site of Built by Women New York City, a competition launched by the Beverly Willis Architecture Foundation during the fall of 2014 to identify outstanding and diverse sites and spaces designed, engineered and built by women.

Activism
In May 2018, Halsband spoke in favor of reform in terms of workplace equality amongst architects. Resolution 18-16 calls for anti abuse and anti harassment policies to be enforced within the workplace. This would require the AIA code of ethics to be updated.