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Architectural Record Announces Winners of First Annual Women in Architecture Awards
The five winners will be honored at a forum and luncheon in New York City on October 10.
August 12, 2014
Photo © Steve Hall/Hedrich Blessing
Studio Gang Architects' WMS Boathouse at Clark Park in Chicago. Jeanne Gang, the founder and principal of the Chicago-based firm, is one of five recipients of Architectural Record's first annual Women in Architecture Awards.
Architectural Record today announced the five winners of its
first annual Women in Architecture Awards, recognizing the design
leadership of American women architects.
The new awards program acknowledges the increasingly visible role of
women in the profession; encourages firms to promote women architects
and their work; and provides an opportunity for those in the
field—honorees, firm leaders and other practitioners—to come together to
celebrate women’s design achievements at an event hosted by the
magazine, the Women in Architecture Forum and Awards.
The forum and luncheon will be held October 10 at McGraw Hill Construction headquarters in New York City, following the magazine’s Innovation Conference on October 9.
“We aim to honor and celebrate women, and to advance the conversation about their role in the field,” said Cathleen McGuigan, the editor-in-chief of Architectural Record. “Though women now make up 43 percent of the architecture students in the U.S., they account for only 21 percent of licensed architects in firms. Only 17 percent of partners and principals of firms are women. But the good news is that there's a growing contingent of women designers whose architecture is having a profound impact on the built environment. Our first Women in Architecture Awards honor five outstanding practitioners whose work helps to open doors to the future.”
2014’s five winners include:
• Design Leader, honoring an architect with significant built work and influence: Merrill Elam of Mack Scogin Merrill Elam Architects, Atlanta, GA
• New Generation Leader, honoring an architect who is rising in the profession: Jeanne Gang of Studio Gang, Chicago, IL
• Innovator, honoring an architect who has made a mark in innovative design, materials or building type: Sheila Kennedy of Kennedy & Violich Architecture, Boston, MA
• Activist, honoring an architect who has used her skills to design for social change, effect the public realm or perform pro bono work: Erinn McGurn of SCALEAfrica, New York, NY
• Educator, honoring a professional who has helped the advancement of women: Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk, former dean of the University of Miami’s School of Architecture, Miami, FL
Winners were selected by an independent panel of judges including Blair Kamin, the architecture critic of the Chicago Tribune; Rosalie Genevro, the executive director of The Architectural League of New York; Sarah Williams Goldhagen, the architecture critic of The New Republic; Jill Lerner, a principal at Kohn Pedersen Fox; Mary McLeod, a professor at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation; and Mark Regulinski, a managing director at Skidmore, Owings & Merrill.
Sponsors of the 2014 Women in Architecture Awards include Presenting Partner Autodesk, and Supporting Sponsors Bespoke and reThink Wood.
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Photo © Tim Hursley
Mack Scogin Merrill Elam Architects' U.S. Courthouse in Austin, Texas. Merrill Elam is the recipient of the 2014 Design Leader award.
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The forum and luncheon will be held October 10 at McGraw Hill Construction headquarters in New York City, following the magazine’s Innovation Conference on October 9.
“We aim to honor and celebrate women, and to advance the conversation about their role in the field,” said Cathleen McGuigan, the editor-in-chief of Architectural Record. “Though women now make up 43 percent of the architecture students in the U.S., they account for only 21 percent of licensed architects in firms. Only 17 percent of partners and principals of firms are women. But the good news is that there's a growing contingent of women designers whose architecture is having a profound impact on the built environment. Our first Women in Architecture Awards honor five outstanding practitioners whose work helps to open doors to the future.”
2014’s five winners include:
• Design Leader, honoring an architect with significant built work and influence: Merrill Elam of Mack Scogin Merrill Elam Architects, Atlanta, GA
• New Generation Leader, honoring an architect who is rising in the profession: Jeanne Gang of Studio Gang, Chicago, IL
• Innovator, honoring an architect who has made a mark in innovative design, materials or building type: Sheila Kennedy of Kennedy & Violich Architecture, Boston, MA
• Activist, honoring an architect who has used her skills to design for social change, effect the public realm or perform pro bono work: Erinn McGurn of SCALEAfrica, New York, NY
• Educator, honoring a professional who has helped the advancement of women: Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk, former dean of the University of Miami’s School of Architecture, Miami, FL
Winners were selected by an independent panel of judges including Blair Kamin, the architecture critic of the Chicago Tribune; Rosalie Genevro, the executive director of The Architectural League of New York; Sarah Williams Goldhagen, the architecture critic of The New Republic; Jill Lerner, a principal at Kohn Pedersen Fox; Mary McLeod, a professor at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation; and Mark Regulinski, a managing director at Skidmore, Owings & Merrill.
Sponsors of the 2014 Women in Architecture Awards include Presenting Partner Autodesk, and Supporting Sponsors Bespoke and reThink Wood.
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Woman are Architects. Architects should compete against each other as equals.
With this sort of setup a Woman could win this Award and the "regular' award but a man cannot.
There is nothing stopping woman from being Architects and competing on the highest level if they so choose.
Give the "gender card" a rest.
When I look at a building design I never even consider the gender of the designer. Let's keep it that way.