WIA at LFA and Festival of Place June 2021
Summer usually brings festivals and we are thrilled to be taking part in two in June - the London Festival of Architecture (LFA) and the Festival of Place.
Read MoreThe Future of Women in Architecture - The Big Debate 1: The Challenge of working from home - is good, bad, or ugly?
This International Women's Day 2021, we would like to share with you a teaser of some of the findings from our survey, spark a debate and hear your point: “The Challenge of working from home - is good, bad, or ugly?”
Read MoreThe Future of Women in Architecture Survey 2021
WIA are pleased to launch The Future of Women in Architecture Survey 2021. We value your feedback on how you are coping during this time of crisis and want your views about the future of women in architecture. Please share this link with your colleagues and friends.
Read MoreWIA UK Stands In Solidarity with Black Lives Matter
As we at WIA have watched events unfold in America, like many, our members were appalled to see the life of a man so meaninglessly and brutally taken, by those whose duty it is to protect all of us.
This is not a time for silence. George Floyd's Life Mattered. The lives of all those who have been taken in such brutal circumstances mattered. And so we raise our voices in solidarity with our Black members. Black Lives Matter.
Read MoreFive Ways to Well-Being - Video by Wendy de Silva
In this short video Wendy took for the NLA, she takes us around Cargo Fleet - her Highbury home – and provides some important wellbeing tips for others working remotely.
Read MoreA Message from WIA
We are facing an unprecedented virus pandemic which has already disrupted the world’s economy. The solution to the problems we will face going forward needs to come from our community uniting.
Read MoreMeet the WIA Committee: Anna Schabel
We’d love to introduce you to the Women in Architecture team members: Anna Schabel is a director of Wilton Studio Architects and the Chair of the Women in Architecture committee….
Read MoreLooking Back On 2019 - Committee Member Projects - XXAOC
The XXAOC Project
In January 2019, WIA’s Sarah Akigbogun began looking for the stories of female architects of colour she might tell. Sarah has been a filmmaker for several years, learning her craft whilst in Pascal Schoning’s unit at the Architectural Association. Since then her work has focused on giving voice to untold stories and histories, and included work with female lead theatre companies, such as the film Escape.
In 2017 she directed, filmed and edited the film She Draws : She Builds, a documentary featuring interviews with 15 female architects. Following this Sarah began the search for female architects of colour and the XXAOC project was born. Her reasons for wanting to do this are outlined in an article on Parlour, published earlier this year.
The search began with a simple tweet which led to an interview with Sharon Egretta Sutton, the first Black woman to be made a full professor of architecture in the US. Following this Sarah was invited to take part in this year’s NOMA conference in New York.
On learning about the incredible work of Dr Sharon Sutton, Sarah nominated her for Part W’s Alternative Gold Medal List:
Read MoreWIA OPEN CALL for Three Colours: Red/Home: Fraternité: Blood
What is ‘home’? What defines it? Shelter, fraternity, blood…bricks?
Read MoreThree Colours: Red / Fraternité Sorority: Blood - Meet the Speaker: Alice Brownfield
During Alice Brownfield’s time at PBA she has worked on a number of high profile award winning homelessness and housing projects for a number of London Boroughs. Find out more about this work at Three Colours: Red.
Read MoreThree Colours: Red / Fraternité Sorority: Blood - Meet the Speaker: Abigail Hall
Designing Happiness, the name of Abigail’s next book and a design philosophy which has helped build her International Consultancy. It is also the subject matter which will be discussed at Three Colours: Red.
Read MoreThree Colours: Red / Fraternité Sorority: Blood - Meet the Speaker: Catja de Haas
The Giant Dolls’ House Project is the result of the ongoing research by Catja de Haas into the use of dolls’ houses and imaginary homes as a way to explore domesticity and architecture as a result of her PhD by design from UCL. The dolls’ house in the shoebox has been a fantastic medium to explore domestic space with its quirks, traditions and memories for both children as well as adults as it reflects the dreams, hopes, whims and ideas of its creators.
Read MoreSupporting Diversity Handbook
Kathryn Timmins, senior project officer at the Greater London Authority (GLA) spoke at Three Colours White/ Egalité: Women on the Edge about the GLA’s Supporting Diversity Handbook.
Read MoreVienna: Planning a Women-oriented City
Sabina Riss, architect and lecturer at the Technische Universitat Vienna shared her experience with women led planning and design at Three Colours White/ Egalité: Women on the Edge. Click link for more on her good practice instruments.
Read MoreThe last little Girl
The last little Girl was shown at Three Colours White/ Egalité: Women on the Edge . A short film written by Kay Adshead, directed by Quason Matthews, performed by Lauren Cato, commissioned by Mama Quilla Productions for Acts of Defiance - The Festival, 2016. Adapted from the stage play written by Kay Adshead and directed by Michael Batz.
Read Morethis strange insensitivity
This strange insensitivity was shown at Three Colours White/ Egalité: Women on the Edge . Taking cues from and making reference to Benjamin Christensen’s 1922 film Häxan, this strange insensitivity follows as a young witch practices her private ministry, finding her own source of communion in the greening spaces beyond her urban home. Film submitted for Papa Gyro Nights 2017 Art Festival. by Rosa Appleby Alis
Read MoreThree Colours: White/ Egalité: Women on the Edge - Meet the Speaker Kathryn Timmins
Passionate about architectural education at all ages Kathryn runs workshops for to students from primary school to college level on careers in the built environment and architectural skills. As well as critting and teaching, Kathryn co-leads an MA unit at Manchester School of Architecture with a focus on feminist architecture and designing for diversity.
Read MoreThree Colours: White/ Egalité: Women on the Edge - Meet the Speaker Katya Veleva
Meet Katya Veleva, one of our guest speakers at Three Colours: White/Egalité. Katya will be mixing fact, fun and stories about her own personal oppressions bacuase “ it's way too much deviation from a straight white male I am dealing with here.”
Read MoreThree Colours: White/ Egalité: Women on the Edge - Meet the Speaker Zahra Haider
“I am quite interested in self-imposed or internalised mental barriers within ourselves, which often are the most difficult to break down and most debilitating. When we have internalised barriers or self-perception, even deep down, we are a little less stronger, a little less sure of ourselves. In a situation that is already trying to push us out, we end up feeling unable to fight back.”
Read MoreWIA OPEN CALL for Three Colours: White/ Egalité: Women on the Edge
What constrains us? Where do we feel free? Women in Architecture UK is seeking short and micro films that explore women and transitional spaces.
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