Flora Samuel is a

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, author and academic. In 2009 she became the Head of the School of Architecture at

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, the first woman to hold the post.Steve Parnell
''Flora Samuel: "I'm not sure the term architect really describes what we do any more"''
The Architects' Journal, 26 February 2010. Retrieved 2020-01-25. Prior to this, she worked for ten years at the

Welsh School of Architecture The Welsh School of Architecture (WSA) ( cy, Ysgol Bensaernïaeth Cymru) is an academic school of Cardiff University. It is generally regarded as a world leading school of architecture, and one of the top architecture schools in Britain. In 2019 ...

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. She was educated at

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. Samuel is currently Professor of Architecture in the Built Environment at the

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, where she helped set up a new industry-led architecture school in close collaboration with construction. She was appointed as the first

RIBA The Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) is a professional body for architects primarily in the United Kingdom, but also internationally, founded for the advancement of architecture under its royal charter granted in 1837, three suppl ...

Vice President for Research in 2018.

Publications

* "Le Corbusier: Architect and Feminist", Wiley-Academy, 2004, ''Le Corbusier: Architect and Feminist''
Journal of Design History, Vol. 18, Issue 2, Summer 2005. * "Le Corbusier in Detail", Architectural Press, 2007, * "Le Corbusier and the Architectural Promenade", Birkhauser, 2010, Simon Richards
''Le Corbusier and the Architectural Promenade''
Times Higher Education, 10 March 2011. Retrieved (online) 2012-03-03. *Flora Samuel, 2018, ''Why Architects Matter: Evidencing and Communicating the Value of Architects'' (London, Routledge) *Anne Dye and Flora Samuel,
Demystifying Architectural Research
' (London: RIBA Enterprises, 2015)

References

External links

Profile page at Sheffield University
*Byron Kinnaird and Susie Ashworth,
In Conversation ... Flora Samuel
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