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The Women in Architecture awards, in association with The Architectural Review and The Architects’ Journal, look to inspire change in the architectural profession by celebrating great design from around the world and promoting role models for young women in practice. Click here to visit the campaign site
Sheila O’Donnell and Xu Tiantian announced the winners of the Women in Architecture awards 2019Subscription
Sheila O’Donnell and Xu Tiantian have been named the winners of the Architect of the Year prize and the Moira Gemmill Prize for Emerging Architecture
2019 Architect of the Year winner
Hungarian rhapsody: Central European University, Budapest, Hungary, by O'Donnell + TuomeySubscription
Women in Architecture Architect of the Year 2019 winner: O’Donnell + Tuomey’s progressive building for the Central European University in Budapest, dedicated to open minds, borders and society, converses in the city’s language of courtyards and rhythmic stone
2019 Moira Gemmill Prize winner
Rural restoration: Xu Tiantian, DnA, ChinaSubscription
Women in Architecture Moira Gemmill Prize winner 2019: hidden deep in the heartlands of Songyang, Xu Tiantian’s network of small but sophisticated structures is transforming the Chinese countryside
Ada Louise Huxtable Prize winner 2019
‘An image for me should never be completely defined’: How Hélène Binet's photographs changed the way we look at architectureSubscription
Winner of the Ada Louise Huxtable Prize 2019, Hélène Binet’s photographs are more than simply representations of the buildings they depict. They are distinct works in their own right
Jane Drew Prize winner 2019
‘My intention was never to be an architect’: Elizabeth Diller's role in the contemporary creative landscapeSubscription
Absorbing and elaborating creativity from a wide array of artistic endeavours is, winner of the Jane Drew Prize 2019, Elizabeth Diller’s forte
Trophies by Madelon VriesendorpSubscription
A sneak peek at the trophies for this year’s Women in Architecture awards, made by Madelon Vriesendorp – these will be presented to Elizabeth Diller and Hélène Binet, as well as the winners of Architect of the Year and the Moira Gemmill Prize for Emerging Architecture, who will be announced later today!
Sheila O'Donnell: ‘Of course I think of London as part of the EU’VideoSubscription
Sheila O’Donnell, founding director of O’Donnell + Tuomey alongside John Tuomey, talks Brexit, Irish architecture, and ‘damn fine women painters’, after winning Architect of the Year at the Women in Architecture awards 2019
Xu Tiantian: ‘The buildings are not iconic – they're more quiet’VideoSubscription
Xu Tiantian, founder of DnA (Design and Architecture), talks about acupuncture, ancient Chinese building techniques and rejecting icons after winning the Moira Gemmill Prize for Emerging Architecture at the Women in Architecture awards 2019
Moira Gemmill Prize & Architect of the Year winners 2018
Sandra Barclay and Gloria Cabral announced the winners of the Women in Architecture awards 2018Subscription
Sandra Barclay and Gloria Cabral have been named the winners of the Architect of the Year Award and the Moira Gemmill Prize for Emerging Architecture
Ada Louise Huxtable Prize winner 2018
‘If at first you don’t succeed, cry, cry again’: Madelon Vriesendorp on being written out of historySubscription
Vriesendorp, winner of the Ada Louise Huxtable Prize 2018, explores refreshing alternatives to professional modes of practice in art or architecture
Jane Drew Prize winner 2018
‘I work best with something to push back against’: Amanda Levete on pushing borders and parametersSubscription
Winner of the Jane Drew Prize 2018, a desire to push the boundaries led Levete to embark on her stellar career in architecture
Gloria Cabral: ‘You need to make doors open – big doors’VideoSubscription
Gloria Cabral from Gabinete de Arquitectura talks about inequality in Paraguay, Peter Zumthor, and how to change the world, after winning the Moira Gemmill Prize for Emerging Architecture at the Women in Architecture awards 2018
Sandra Barclay: ‘It is important that women have a voice’VideoSubscription
Sandra Barclay from Barclay & Crousse talks about who shouts the loudest and fighting for quality in public buildings in Peru, after winning the Architect of the Year 2018 at the Women in Architecture awards 2018
Amanda Levete addresses the Women in Architecture LuncheonVideoSubscription
Jane Drew Prize 2018 winner Amanda Levete talks tinned tuna, taking off your shoes and women doing it their own way at the Women in Architecture Luncheon on 2 March 2018
Madelon Vriesendorp: ‘There's a “coming out of hiding”’VideoSubscription
Winner of the Ada Louise Huxtable Prize 2018, Madelon Vriesendorp talks Lina Bo Bardi, bitches and cosmic jackets following the Women in Architecture awards in March
Madelon Vriesendorp speaks out at the Women in Architecture awardsVideoSubscription
Ada Louise Huxtable Prize winner 2018 Madelon Vriesendorp discusses women being written out of the script, defending her legacy and #MeToo heralding an end to mother-in-law jokes
Essays on gender, women in architecture, and sexualised space
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Naked ambition: blurring the line between creator and consumer in the porn industry
As pornography has moved from the public to the private sphere, stage sets have increasingly mirrored the domestic settings in which it is consumed
Out of space: changing homosexual geographies
State control over homosexuality in public has given way to spatial divisions brought on by economic and technological pressures
Outrage: the prejudice against queer aesthetics
Architecture represses plurality and queerness in favour of heteronormative culture
Tortuous trajectories: the loves and lives of Modern couples
Activating multiple modernities and identities, the Barbican’s Modern Couples exhibition probed the explicit intertwining of lives and art
Stepping out: the flâneuse claims the city for herself
Forging a pattern for a new archetypal character distinct from that of her oft-cited male counterpart, the flâneuse savours the city in a way that has historically been denied her
Poem: phases of home life
Home futures brimming with desire and an aesthetics of domesticity
Pyjama party: what we do in bed
Place of work, protest, creativity, sexual gratification as well as slumber – the bed hosts myriad activities
Body unbuilding: on cuts, stitching and anarchitecture
If the human form can be depicted as a house, what does it mean to dismantle it?
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
The serve
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
‘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.
‘This opens a new chapter for Women in Architecture’
I wanted to inspire change, and now I want to do it on a global scale, says Christine Murray
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
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.
Moira Gemmill Prize winner 2017
Cancha in Veracruz, Tepoztlán House and Común-Unidad in Mexico by Rozana MontielVideoSubscription
Sensitive engagements with communities activate simple architectural forms
Architect of the Year winner 2017
Pátzcuaro Criminal Courts in Mexico by TALLER | Mauricio Rocha + Gabriela CarrilloSubscription
Calls for transparency in the judicial system in Mexico have inspired a novel architectural approach
Ada Louise Huxtable Prize winner 2017
Rachel Whiteread: ‘Faithful to a truly architectural project’Subscription
Whiteread’s architecture autre interrogates the psychic response to space
Jane Drew Prize winner 2017
Denise Scott Brown and the fight for recognition VideoSubscription
[Jane Drew Prize 2017] A fearless feminist icon, Scott Brown fought against a culture that assigned Venturi to the canon without her – and she’s still fighting
The life, work and reputation of influential women architects
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Ada Louise Huxtable (1921-2013)
Ada Louise Huxtable made history as the first full-time architecture critic at a US newspaper when she joined the New York Times, and was later awarded the first Pulitzer Prize for Criticism in 1970
Charlotte Perriand (1903-1999)
Inspired by Art Deco, the machine aesthetic, organicism, biomorphism, Art Brut and industrial prefabrication, French architect and furniture designer Charlotte Perriand deeply believed that good design should be fundamentally transformative and accessible to all
Zaha Hadid (1950-2016)
Zaha Hadid was an explosion of fearless, impolite, aggressive talent onto a profession terrified of itself
Eileen Gray (1878-1976)
From furniture designer to architect, why has Gray found such belated prominence?
Maria Carlota Costallat de Macedo Soares (1910-1967)
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Hilla Becher (1934-2015)
A gritty industrial past was brought to life in Hilla and Bernd Becher’s photos
Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky (1897-2000)
The socially oriented Frankfurt Kitchen aimed at a more egalitarian world
Charles Eames (1907–1978) and Ray Eames (1912–1988)
The Eameses, the ‘painters who didn’t paint and architects who didn’t build,’ did however manage to change the way we see the world
Jane Drew (1911-1996)
Shrouded in rumours of misdemenour and spying, Jane Drew’s life was richly packed with exciting opportunities and major projects
Denise Scott Brown (1931- ) and Robert Venturi (1925-2018)
In remembrance of Robert Venturi who sadly passed away on 19 September: the pair of Learning from Las Vegas fame, whose mannerist inquisition of taste will be their enduring legacy
Lina Bo Bardi (1914-1992)
The Brazilian Modernist’s work is celebrated for its punchy, honest concern for social good
Alison Smithson (1928-1993) and Peter Smithson (1923-2003)
Steve Parnell elaborates on the extraordinary lives of The Smithsons
Jane Jacobs (1916-2006)
Why Neo-Cons loved communitarian urbanist Jane Jacobs
Moira Gemmill Prize winner 2016
Ambrosi Etchegaray employ Mexican idiosyncrasies in a rich reinterpretation of cultural and material historyVideoSubscription
Winner of the Moira Gemmill Prize for Emerging Architecture
Architect of the Year winner 2016
The Arcus Center for Social Justice in Kalamazoo, Michigan by Studio GangVideoSubscription
Inclusion, openness and dialogue resonate throughout Jeanne Gang’s Arcus Center for Social Justice Leadership
Ada Louise Huxtable Prize winner 2016
Julia Peyton-Jones awarded the 2016 Ada Louise Huxtable Prize: ‘when push comes to shove, architects can change the world’Subscription
A nurturer of architectural vision who has made architecture available to many
Jane Drew Prize winner 2016
Odile Decq wins the 2016 Jane Drew Prize: ‘I’m still at war - there’s so much to fight for’Subscription
A creative powerhouse, spirited breaker of rules and a vocal advocate of equality
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