The Jane Drew Prize is an architecture award given annually by the ''

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'' to a person showing innovation, diversity and inclusiveness in

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. It is named after the

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modernist architect Modern architecture, or modernist architecture, was an architectural movement or architectural style based upon new and innovative technologies of construction, particularly the use of glass, steel, and reinforced concrete; the idea that Form f ...

Jane Drew Dame Jane Drew , (24 March 1911 – 27 July 1996) was an English modernist architect and town planner. She qualified at the Architectural Association School in London, and prior to World War II became one of the leading exponents of the Modern ...

Background

The Jane Drew Prize began with discussions in 1997 between the

Royal Institute of British Architects 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 ...

(RIBA) Women Architects Group and the

Arts Council of England The arts are a very wide range of human practices of creative expression, storytelling and cultural participation. They encompass multiple diverse and plural modes of thinking, doing and being, in an extremely broad range of media. Both ...

. The new prize was launched in January 1998 with a ceremony held at the

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. The award was created to recognise promotion of innovation, diversity and inclusiveness in architecture. It was named after the English architect Dame

(died 1996) who, among other achievements, had tried to set up the first all-women architecture practice and had been the first female full Professor at

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and

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. Originally published by ArchDaily 12 April 2012. Nominations were invited by the RIBA, after which a jury selected the winner who received a prize of £10,000. The 1998 winner also received a sculpture by

Eduardo Paolozzi Sir Eduardo Luigi Paolozzi (, ; 7 March 1924 – 22 April 2005) was a Scottish artist, known for his sculpture and graphic works. He is widely considered to be one of the pioneers of pop art. Early years Eduardo Paolozzi was born on 7 March ...

. Problems were encountered with the initial award, primarily in finding suitable candidates that met all three criteria. A forum was held on 19 May 1998 where the four shortlisted candidates (client

Jane Priestman Jane Priestman OBE (7 April 1930 – 25 January 2021) was a British designer who performed a number of high-profile roles in design and architecture. She was appointed an OBE in 1991 for her work in design and an honorary doctorate from Sh ...

, artist Martin Richman, landscape architect

Kathryn Gustafson Kathryn Gustafson (born 1951) is an American landscape architect. Her work includes the Gardens of the Imagination in Terrasson, France; a city square in Évry, France; and the Diana, Princess of Wales Memorial Fountain in Hyde Park, London. Sh ...

and architectural practice

Fashion Architecture Taste Fashion Architecture Taste or FAT is an art and architecture collaborative first established in the 1990s in London, England. Their work falls broadly under the postmodern category with pop-culture influences.Pearman, Hugh (15 January 2006"Your ...

) were asked to give a ten-minute presentation. The evening was described as "tedious" and Gustafson didn't even turn up. The award was finally presented to Gustafson on 4 June after strong disagreements and near-resignations amongst the judging panel. The prize has subsequently come under the jurisdiction of the ''

''. Winners are chosen by the AJ Women in Architecture Judging Panel. According to the 2013 entry guidelines, the prize recognises a "contribution to the status of women in architecture".

Winners

* 2022 -

Farshid Moussavi Farshid Moussavi (born in 1965, Shiraz, Iran) is an Iranian-born British architect, educator, and author. She is the founder of Farshid Moussavi Architecture (FMA) and a Professor in Practice of Architecture at Harvard University Graduate S ...

, architect, "for elevating the profile of women in architecture." * 2021 -

Kate Macintosh Catherine Ailsa "Kate" Macintosh MBE (born 1937) is a Scottish architect known for her work for local authorities. She designed Dawson's Heights in Southwark and 269 Leigham Court Road, a Grade II listed building in Lambeth. Career Macinto ...

, architect, "selected in celebration of her work in public architecture and advocation for the use of buildings as a tool for social justice since the 1960s." * 2020 –

Yasmeen Lari Yasmeen Lari (born 1941; ur, ) is Pakistan's first female architect. She is best known for her involvement in the intersection of architecture and social justice. Since her official retirement from architectural practice in 2000, her UN-recog ...

, architect, "for her contribution to raising the profile of women in architecture and design." * 2019 – Liz Diller, architect and founder of the firm

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, "From her wide range of work – including the High Line in New York, to The Broad art museum in Los Angeles, to the much-anticipated London Centre for Music – Diller's brave, refreshing, innovative and often cross-disciplinary approach is an inspiration to the architectural profession." * 2018 – Amanda Levete, architect and principal of the firm

AL_A AL_A, formerly known as Amanda Levete Architects, is a London-based practice formed in 2009 by Stirling Prize-winning architect Amanda Levete CBE. Practice AL_A was formed in 2009 following the end of Levete's 20-year partnership with the lat ...

, "Amanda Levete is an architect whose career has been notable at several points, but whose independent practice has blossomed internationally, and whose independent voice has generated welcome debate and reform." * 2017 –

Denise Scott Brown Denise Scott Brown (née Lakofski; born October 3, 1931) is an American architect, planner, writer, educator, and principal of the firm Venturi, Scott Brown and Associates in Philadelphia. Scott Brown and her husband and partner, Robert Venturi, ...

, architect, planner, writer, educator, and principal of the firm Venturi, Scott Brown and Associates, "Denise Scott Brown's wonderful architectural writing and thinking, her work and her wit has been an inspiring force for change. This honour squares the circle." * 2016 –

Odile Decq Odile Decq (born 1955 in Laval, France) is a French architect, urban planner and academic. She is the founder of the Paris firm, Studio Odile Decq and the architecture school, Confluence Institute. Decq is known for her unique, self-described g ...

, architect, Co-founder of Studio Odile Decq, for being "a creative powerhouse, spirited breaker of rules and advocate of equality." * 2015 –

Yvonne Farrell Yvonne Farrell (born 1951) is an Irish architect and academic. She is the co-founder, together with Shelley McNamara, of Grafton Architects, which won the World Building of the Year award in 2008 for their Bocconi University building in Milan ...

and

Shelley McNamara Shelley McNamara (born 1952) is an Irish architect and academic. She attended University College Dublin and graduated in 1974 with a Bachelor of Architecture. She founded Grafton Architects with Yvonne Farrell in 1978. Grafton rose to promin ...

, architects and founders of Grafton Architects, for "not being afraid to speak in a language that is feminine yet produce buildings which are robust and full of conviction." * 2014 –

Kathryn Findlay Kathryn Findlay (26 January 1953 – 10 January 2014) was a Scottish architect. Early life and education Findlay was born in Forfar in Scotland, the daughter of a sheep farmer, and studied fine arts at the Edinburgh College of Art. She moved to ...

, architect, for "her outstanding contribution to the status of women in architecture." * 2013 –

Eva Jiřičná Eva Jiřičná (born 3 March 1939) is a Czech architect and designer, active in London and Prague. She is the founder of the architectural atelier ''Eva Jiricna Architects'', operating in Britain (at first as ''Jiřičná Kerr Associates'') fro ...

, architect, for "her outstanding contribution to the status of women in architecture." * 2012 –

Zaha Hadid Dame Zaha Mohammad Hadid ( ar, زها حديد ''Zahā Ḥadīd''; 31 October 1950 – 31 March 2016) was an Iraqi-British architect, artist and designer, recognised as a major figure in architecture of the late 20th and early 21st centu ...

, architect, for "her outstanding contribution to the status of women in architecture." She was described as having "broken the glass ceiling more than anyone", for example being the first woman to win the

Pritzker Prize The Pritzker Architecture Prize is an international architecture award presented annually "to honor a living architect or architects whose built work demonstrates a combination of those qualities of talent, vision and commitment, which has produ ...

. * 1998 –

, landscape architect, for her body of work which "straddled the boundary between individual artistic sensibility and teamwork."

References

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