The Architects’ Journal Architecture News & Buildings
Listing for post-war house designed by unsung Team 4 founder
A 1970s house in north London, by ‘fearless, uncompromising’ but unsung Modernist architect Georgie Wolton has been Grade II listed
Women in architecture
Run in association with The Architectural Review, the W Awards and the W Programme recognise women’s contribution to the architectural profession
Are you a female or non-binary practitioner or researching gender? Enter the 2024 W Awards now
Three categories in the annual W Awards – for both practitioners and researchers – are now open. Entry is free and the deadline is 17 November 2023
From banks to bamboo: Pakistan’s first female architect Yasmeen Lari
How the RIBA Royal Gold Medal winner swapped rich corporate clients for community-driven architecture that helps the poorest on the frontline of climate change
Women still make up less than third of profession, latest figures show
Only 31 per cent of the UK’s architects are female, but the gender balance among new registrants is continuing to improve
It’s lads lads lads at MIPIM and that’s the way we like it
While other global events have bowed to woke pressure, how reassuring that the annual Cannes property event is comfortable in its integral ladness, write the MIPIM Lads
I’m nobody’s ‘lady architect’
On International Women’s Day Becca Thomas talks about unhelpful labels and why practice leaders must ‘be the change’ that will make the profession a more equitable place to work
New map of ‘missed off’ buildings by women in London launched
An action group has created a new map of London marking women’s ‘significant’ but ‘often missed off’ contributions to the built environment
MJ Long Prize 2023 awarded to Sergison Bates associate
Architect Kirsten Gabriëls Webb, associate at London, Zurich, and Brussels-based practice Sergison Bates has won this year’s MJ Long Prize for De Korenbloem sheltered housing, a care home for residents with young-onset dementia in Belgium
Park Hill architect features on shortlist for 2023 MJ Long Prize
Park Hill retrofit architect Amy Waite of Mikhail Riches is among the architects shortlisted for the 2023 MJ Long Prize, part of the AJ and AR’s W Awards
Part W collective wins the inaugural W Awards research prize
Campaign group Part W has won the inaugural Prize for Research in Gender and Architecture 2023, part of AR/AJ’s W Awards, for its mapping project Women’s Work: London