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Alison Killing is a British architect and urban designer. In 2010, she founded a studio for design and research in the field of architecture named Killing Architects. She is a
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as well.


Early life

She was born in Newcastle upon Tyne, England and currently lives in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. She studied
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at
King's College, Cambridge King's College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge. Formally The King's College of Our Lady and Saint Nicholas in Cambridge, the college lies beside the River Cam and faces out onto King's Parade in the centre of the city ...
and
Oxford Brookes Oxford Brookes University (formerly known as Oxford Polytechnic) is a public university in Oxford, England. It is a new university, having received university status through the Further and Higher Education Act 1992. The university was named ...
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Pulitzer Prize

Killing was part of the team that produced a series of innovative articles that used
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, 3D architectural models, and in-person interviews to expose China’s vast infrastructure for detaining hundreds of thousands of Muslims in its Xinjiang region and won the 2021
Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting This Pulitzer Prize has been awarded since 1942 for a distinguished example of reporting on international affairs, including United Nations correspondence. In its first six years (1942–1947), it was called the Pulitzer Prize for Telegraphic R ...
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Killing Architects (Official website)
Year of birth missing (living people) Living people British women architects Architects from Northumberland Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting winners 21st-century British architects {{UK-bio-stub