Tatiana von Preussen (born 16 October 1980) is an architect who worked on the construction of the

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, an

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, greenway and

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in New York. She graduated in architecture from

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and

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. In 2009 Tatiana von Preussen, Catherine Pease and Jessica Reynolds set up vPPR Architects. they jointly won ''Emerging Woman Architect of the Year'' at the

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's Women in Architecture Awards in 2015. In 2013 her Otts Yard project which replaced a derelict workshop with two green roofed houses, won a

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London award and was shortlisted for the

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Prize.

Personal life

Tatiana von Preussen is the daughter of

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and Alexandra Blahova, and granddaughter of Prince Frederick of Prussia and

Lady Brigid Guinness Lady Brigid Katharine Rachel Guinness (30 July 19208 March 1995) was the youngest daughter of Rupert Guinness, 2nd Earl of Iveagh, and wife of Prince Frederick of Prussia (1911–1966), Prince Frederick of Prussia, grandson of Wilhelm II, German ...

; on 28 June 2014 she married writer and journalist

Philip Womack Philip Womack (born in 1981) is a British writer and journalist. Womack married Princess Tatiana von Preussen in 2014. Education Womack was educated aDorset House Preparatory School Lancing College, BPP Law School, and read Classics and English ...

, and lives in London. They have one son, Arthur Frederick Richard Womack von Preussen (born 21 November 2015) and twin girls, Xenia Alexandra Selena Womack von Preussen and Amalia Maria Brigid Womack von Preussen (born 29 August 2020).

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:von Preussen, Tatiana 1980 births Living people House of Hohenzollern Prussian princesses German women architects Alumni of the University of Cambridge Columbia Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation alumni