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
Run in association with The Architectural Review, the W Awards and the W Programme recognise women’s contribution to the architectural profession
By will hurst. Portrait photography by Laura Pannack 27 April 2023 3,603 Views
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
By Richard Waite 12 April 2023 993 Views
Only 31 per cent of the UK’s architects are female, but the gender balance among new registrants is continuing to improve
By MIPIM Lads 15 March 2023 43,075 Views
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
By Becca Thomas 8 March 2023 6,657 Views
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
By Gino Spocchia 8 March 2023 2,706 Views
An action group has created a new map of London marking women’s ‘significant’ but ‘often missed off’ contributions to the built environment
By Fran Williams 3 March 2023 1,549 Views
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
By Fran Williams 24 February 2023 1,708 Views
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
By Fran Williams 24 February 2023 797 Views
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
By Marianna Janowicz 24 February 2023 1,357 Views
Marianna Janowicz meets the seven women behind a podcast that discusses their experiences as architecture graduates and women of colour. Photography by Ellem Productions
By Fran Williams 27 January 2023 1,445 Views
The Architectural Review and the AJ have named Kazuyo Sejima and Phyllis Lambert as winners respectively of the 2023 Jane Drew and Ada Louise Huxtable prizes