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.

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 statement, "I am absolutely thrilled by this news, not least because I knew Jane Drew personally and occasionally we shared a platform in schools of architecture. Our values systems chimed as we discovered when we overlapped on RIBA council.’

A leader, writer, academic advocate, and multi-talented Ghanaian-Scottish architect Lesley Lokko is the recipient of the Ada Louise Huxtable Prize. Much like Macintosh, her efforts and practice within architecture and academia have deemed her a powerful force of change and progress. 

Lokko shares in a statement, "over the past decade, social media has blurred the lines between personal and public, fact and fiction, opinion and critique. It’s made the role of the critic more fraught, especially since criticism requires time, both to digest and to craft. Particularly in this moment, it’s such an honour to be given an award by one’s peers who look at a body of work, sometimes going back decades, long before the issues make the headlines. I’m deeply grateful.’