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On the day I dropped out of architecture school, just a few weeks shy of completing my second year, my professor turned to me with a knowing look and said: “I think it’s for the best. This is not a...

Timea Jakab, a studio director at Gensler, has penned an op-ed for Canadian Architecture that seeks to explore the barriers women face within the architectural profession. Although women make up...

Architecture and design have longstanding reputations as male-dominated industries. In fact, women didn’t even begin practicing architecture in the United States until the mid-1800s. But despite the...

To mark International Women's Day, we asked our current and former Dezeen Awards judges to nominate a woman in architecture and design who should have greater recognition. Each of the prominent...

Building Equality in Architecture North is looking for design work to be featured in a virtual International Women's Day Exhibition to celebrate the design work by women in the Canadian Architectural...

In 2011, a student asked architect and historian Lisa Landrum, an associate professor of architecture at the University of Manitoba’s Faculty of Architecture: why were women absent from the...

The Beverly Willis Architecture Foundation (BWAF) has received $100,000 from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) for a new podcast series, called New Angle: Voice, featuring some of...

The Manitoba Women in Design Database is part of a larger initiative of the Winnipeg Architecture Foundation that aims to document women architects, landscape architects, planners, and interior...

The percentage of women in top jobs at the biggest architecture firms has doubled over the past five years – but men still occupy four out of five key roles, according to research conducted by Dezeen...

According to a 2020 report in Archinect, only 0.4% of licensed architects in the United States are Black women. And a recent survey from Zippia revealed that within a $17.5 billion industry, there are...