Women in Architecture | Campaign & Awards

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Women with attitude: AAXX

From the advent of female undergraduates in 1917, the Architectural Association has spurred feminist activism in the profession

Unfair dismissal: the legacy of women architects working for London councils

The legacy of women architects working for London councils in the 20th century is often overlooked – for no good reason

Signs of the times: Learning from Las Vegas returns

The facsimile edition of Learning from Las Vegas, by Jane Drew Prize winner Denise Scott Brown, Robert Venturi, and Steven Izenour, is long overdue

Women in a man-made world: the need to build more holistically

The exteriors of buildings are an expression of human sexuality and power, historically determined by men – we should now design more holistically

Loos and Baker: a house for Josephine

Adolf Loos’s lost house for Josephine Baker marked a seminal moment in the expression of cultural and social modernity

Built-in bias: hidden power and privilege in design

Hidden power and privilege can damage our reputations or place us in harm’s way

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The Williams sisters’ feminist space of possibility 23m by 8m long

Only resist: a feminist approach to critical spatial practice

Since the 1990s, a radical and interdisciplinary approach to spatial practice offers a rich and productive seam for feminism and architecture

Editorial: Awards for women architects will eventually become an anachronism

While it is still the case that women have yet to achieve equality in the architectural world, the Women in Architecture awards applaud first architectural quality, and then the architect – who happens to be a woman

The Invisible Women: How female architects were erased from history

As stars or workers, women are often not attributed with authorship of the work; they are oppressed by the fact of being women

How architecture cheats women: results of the 2017 Women in Architecture survey revealed

When it comes to gender equity in architecture there is still a long way to go, according to the 2017 survey

‘Despite the pulls of gender, there is still the work – the ideas, designs and buildings that transcend any single notion of identity’

Identifying as an architect is a kind of drag, a mannered persona donned for effect

Editorial: Five years ago, I asked a question: why do women leave architecture?

I could not find a single answer to this question, but a whole spectrum of experience only partially captured by the responses to the Women in Architecture (WIA) survey. With women making up half of architecture students, as then editor of the Architects’ Journal, I hunted the spectre of the missing 25 per cent among qualified architects.

Results of the 2016 Women in Architecture Survey revealed

The Women in Architecture survey provides disturbing insights into the experiences of 1,152 women worldwide – alarmingly, more than one in five would not recommend a career in architecture.