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Phyllis Lambert and Kazuyo Sejima win 2023 Jane Drew and Ada Louise Huxtable Prizes

2023-01-30T13:40:00-05:00

Influential Canadian architect Phyllis Lambert and SANAA co-founder Kazuyo Sejima have been named as this year's respective winners of the Jane Drew and Ada Louise Huxtable prizes by the UK-based publications Architects’ Journal and The Architectural Review as part of the annual W Awards program, now in its 11th year.

Lambert was awarded the Ada Louise Huxtable Prize for her influence on the culture of architecture. Her early work with Mies van der Rohe on New York’s Seagram Building has been well documented, along with the influence spread throughout her native country after founding the Canadian Centre for Architecture (CCA) in Montreal in 1979. Her influence is still widely felt today in both countries. As AR’s Deputy Editor Eleanor Beaumont said, Lambert encourages us to “always be curious.”

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and Phyllis Lambert with the model for the Seagram Building New York, 1955. Photo © Fonds Phyllis Lambert.

Sejima, the 2010 winner of the Pritzker Prize along with S...

2021 Jane Drew and Ada Louise Huxtable Prizes awarded to Kate Macintosh and Lesley Lokko

2021-01-21T16:37:00-05:00

The work and leadership of female architects continue to impact the industry thanks to their relentless efforts and passion for architecture, equity, and progress. The Architectural Review and Architect's Journal awards two women whose exemplary work in architecture has deemed them winners of the 2021 Jane Drew Prize for Architecture and the Ada Louise Huxtable Prize for Contribution to Architecture.

Kate Macintosh's South London housing project in Dawson's Heights (1972). Image © Abi Jones

Pioneering British architect Kate Macintosh is the recipient of the Jane Drew Prize award. Focusing on social housing and activism her legacy within the profession is built upon her tenacious commitment to housing and social justice. Macintosh's accomplishments include her work on designing the South London housing project Dawson's Heights at the age of 26. Macintosh is part of a legacy of trailblazing women in the field of architecture whose work has paved the way for many.

Macintosh shares in a...

Elizabeth Diller wins 2019 Jane Drew Prize, Hélène Binet wins Ada Louise Huxtable Prize + Women in Architecture shortlists announced

2019-01-28T14:09:00-05:00

Today, the Architects' Journal and Architectural Review announced two influential women in the architecture industry as winning recipients in their 2019 Women in Architecture Awards program. Architect Elizabeth Diller was honored with the Jane Drew Prize, while renowned architectural photographer Hélène Binet won the Ada Louise Huxtable Prize.

The Jane Drew Prize is a lifetime achievement that recognizes an architect who, through their work, helped raise the profile of women in architecture. The Ada Louise Huxtable Prize recognizes individuals working in the wider architectural industry who have made a significant contribution to the field and the built environment.

The Broad Museum in Los Angeles by Diller Scofidio + Renfro. Photo: Diller Scofidio + Renfro.

“Liz Diller is an international architectural powerhouse and a hugely deserving winner of this year’s Jane Drew Prize. From her wide range of work [...] Diller’s brave, refreshing, innovative and often cross-disciplinary approach...

Denise Scott Brown awarded the Jane Drew Prize

2017-02-07T12:33:00-05:00

Denise Scott Brown, one of the most influential architects and architectural writers of the second half of the twentieth century, has been awarded the Jane Drew Prize. The Prize recognizes an architecture designer responsible for elevating the role of women in the profession.

According to Architects Journal, the awarding is, in part, a result of a grassroots effort to see Scott Brown recognized equally for her role in the work produced by Venturi Scott Brown, the studio she founded alongside her husband, Robert Venturi. In 1991, Venturi was awarded the discipline’s highest honor, the Pritzker Prize, while Scott Brown was snubbed—an omission largely credited to internalized or structural sexism.

A petition was launched in 2013 to award Scott Brown the Pritzker alongside her husband, but the organization would not budge. Eventually, they decided to allow recognition of partners with the awards, but wouldn’t retroactively change the awarding.

Last year, Archinect conducted a three-part i...

Kathryn Findlay, recipient of the 2014 Jane Drew Prize, dies at 60

2014-01-13T19:29:00-05:00

British architect Kathryn Findlay, Co-Founder and Principal Director of London-based Ushida Findlay Architects, has died. Findlay had been suffering from a brain tumor. Unaware of her recent passing, the jury of the 2014 Jane Drew Prize just announced her as this year's award recipient. The Prize, awarded annually by The Architects' Journal, recognized Kathryn Findlay ‘for her outstanding contribution to the status of women in architecture.'

Findlay is most famous for her projects Truss Wall House (1993), Soft and Hairy House (1994), and, most certainly, the ArcelorMittal Orbit Tower, the UK's tallest sculpture and intergral part of the London 2012 Olympic Park.