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Women in Architecture Awards

The Jane Drew Prize

Eva Jiricna

Eva Jiřičná calls for return of a ‘socially responsible’ profession

Jane Drew Prize-winner Eva Jiricná has called on younger architects to become more socially and politically engaged

Eva Jiricna picking up the Jane Drew Prize 2013

Eva Jiricna picks up Jane Drew Prize

‘Incredibly influential’ architect Eva Jiricná has collected this year’s Jane Drew Prize at the AJ Women in Architecture Awards luncheon in London today (22 March)

Woman Architect of the Year shortlist

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Interview with the AJ's Women Architect of the Year - Alison Brooks

Women Architect of the Year 2013 Alison Brooks talks about how she sees herself as’an architect and not a female architect’ and why mandatory fee scales should be re-introduced.

New Student Centre, London School of Economics

Woman Architect of the Year shortlist: Sheila O’Donnell

Co-founder, O’Donnell + Tuomey Architects, Sheila O’Donnell creates buildings which ‘are appropriate to their use, time and place and that weather and age naturally’

Alfriston School by Duggan Morris Architects

Woman Architect of the Year shortlist: Mary Duggan

Founder of Duggan Morris Architects, Mary Duggan is inspired by Kazuyo Sejima’s ‘delicate approach to materials, detail connections, texture and light’

York Art Gallery

Woman Architect of the Year shortlist: Kathryn Findlay

Kathryn Findlay, director of Ushida Findlay Architects advises aspiring female architects to ‘focus and be open to possibilities’

Amsterdam University College

Woman Architect of the Year shortlist: Francine Houben

Francine Houben, founder of Mecanoo Architects became an architect ‘to ‘combine human, technical and aesthetical aspects’

New Court Rothschild Bank HQ by OMA

Woman Architect of the Year shortlist: Ellen van Loon

‘Female architects add softness to the design’ says partner of OMA, Ellen van Loon

Magdalen College by wright & wright architects

Woman Architect of the Year shortlist: Clare Wright

Clare Wright, founding partner of Wright?&?Wright Architects is inspired by van Heyningen, Jiricná and Hadid

Courtyard House Terrace development in Newhall, Essex by Alison Brooks Architects

Woman Architect of the Year shortlist: Alison Brooks

Alison Brooks, director, Alison Brooks Architects says ‘I became an architect to engage in a profession that has a cultural, social and economic role in contemporary society’

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Emerging Woman Architect of the Year shortlist

Maria Smith

Interview with the AJ's Emerging Woman Architect runner-up - Maria Smith

The AJ caught up with Maria Smith, founding director at Studio Weave, after she picked up a commendation in the Emerging Woman Architect of the Year Award category

Olga Felip

Interview with the AJ’s Emerging Woman Architect of the Year – Olga Felip

Winner of the Emerging Woman Architect of the Year Award 2013, Olga Felip talks about how she balances a career in architecture with having children

Olga Felip

Olga Felip crowned Emerging Woman Architect of the Year

Olga Felip, co-founder of Catalonia-based practice Arquitecturia, has won the prestigious AJ Emerging Woman Architect of the Year award

Health Centre, L’Aldea, Catalonia

Emerging Woman Architect of the Year: Olga Felip

Olga Felip is co-founder of Catalonia-based practice Arquitecturia

The Ecology of Colour Studio, Dartford Central Park

Emerging Woman Architect of the Year shortlist: Maria Smith

Maria Smith is a founding director at Studio Weave

Refurbishment of Greenwich Beam Engine House

Emerging Woman Architect of the Year shortlist: Lisa Basu

Lisa Basu is a project architect at Fereday Pollard

The stairwell of Dockray’s refurbishment of a Lubetkin flat in Highpoint II, Highgate, London

Emerging Woman Architect of the Year shortlist: Bev Dockray

Bev Dockray is a director at Coppin Dockray Architects

Page’s renovation of her own Swiss home, including handmade tilework

Emerging Woman Architect of the Year shortlist: Anna Page

Anna Page is a senior architect at Atelier Zumthor

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