W Awards 2020

Celebrating the best design by female architects from around the world, enter this year's W Awards today - entries are free.

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Celebrating the best design by female architects from around the world, enter this year's W Awards today - entries are free
Following on from eight years of Women in Architecture, the W Awards celebrate exemplary work of all kinds; from the design of the world's most significant new buildings to contributions to wider architectural culture, from lifetimes of achievement to the work of women with bright futures ahead.
You're a damn fine woman painter, the artist Jackson Pollock tells Lee Krasner in Ed Harris's biographical film centred on the aforementioned man painter. The qualifier stings; smarting with the weight of thousands like it, with Krasner's historical neglect, this particular sting is not entirely unfamiliar today. A winner of last year's awards, Sheila O'Donnell insists that We have to get to the point where it doesn't have that Pollock connotation – a damn fine woman painter. The road is longer yet.
Our ideas around identity are constantly evolving, and require constant re-examination. We want to signify the shifts we continue to undergo in how we think about gender in the profession. What we call these things matters in the process: as the very basis of communication, the words we use underlie the formation of our society. They structure how we think and how we act. Some have countless associations, but they are also necessarily limited.
We are not leaving an old tradition as much as continuing to evolve it: W is reflective of our past, of the lineage of work that we seek to continue, but the suggestive signification opens to the future. What remains of utmost importance is the celebration of exceptional design by people who are systemically undervalued by the society in which we live. The W programme will continue to build on the work we have done to date, continuing to raise the profile of women in architecture worldwide, inspiring change as a united voice of this global call for respect, diversity and equality. We look forward to the year ahead, joining forces and celebrating the outstanding contribution these architects make to the wider profession.
Now we are inviting you to put forward talented women for the W Awards - or you can nominate yourself. This year, entries are open for the Moira Gemmill Prize and the MJ Long Prize for Excellence in Practice.

Jury
Not yet announced

Prize
Moira Gemmill Prize for Emerging Architecture: £10,000 prize fund
Jane Drew Prize for Architecture
Ada Louise Huxtable Prize for Contribution to Architecture

Entry Fee
None

Timetable
Winners will be honoured at an event at Illuminate, The Science Museum in London on Friday 6 March.

Past winners

Organizer
The Architectural Review

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