Farshid Moussavi and Mona Hatoum winners of the Jane Drew and Ada Louise Huxtable Prizes 2022
25/02/2022.
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Farshid Moussavi (winner of the Jane Drew Prize 2022, left) and Mona Hatoum (winner of the Ada Louise Huxtable Prize 2022, right).
Farshid Moussavi (winner of the Jane Drew Prize 2022, left) and Mona Hatoum (winner of the Ada Louise Huxtable Prize 2022, right).
Folie Divine by Farshid Moussavi Architecture. Photograph by Paul Phung. Courtesy of Farshid Moussavi Architecture
Light Sentence, Mona Hatoum, 1992. Photograph by Edward Woodman. Mona Hatoum / Locus+ Archive Cardiff.
Jane Drew Prize Award 2022. has been awarded to British-Iranian architect, educator, and writer Farshid Moussavi. The annual award is given to an architect whose work and activity has raised the profile of women in architecture. Moussavi was a co-founder of Foreign Office Architects, known works such as the Yokohama International Ferry Terminal, which opened in 2002. In 2011, Moussavi founded Farshid Moussavi Architecture, based in London.
Farshid Moussavi, the Jane Drew Prize 2022 winner. Photograph by Anne Purkiss.
Farshid Moussavi, the Jane Drew Prize 2022 winner. Photograph by Anne Purkiss.
“It is a very great honor for me to receive the Jane Drew Prize, which has done so much to draw attention to the achievements of women in the field of architecture,” Moussavi said upon hearing the news. “There are relatively few role models for women in architectural practice, and I believe that this allows them freedom to be more creative in responding to the urgent challenges facing architects today, whether these challenges are finding new and more generous uses for buildings as well as new languages in which to engage a larger and more diverse public, or addressing climate change to protect future generations.”
It was named after the English architect Dame Jane Drew (died 1996) who, among other achievements, had tried to set up the first all-women architecture practice and had been the first female full Professor at Harvard University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Mona Hatoum, winner of the Ada Louise Huxtable Prize 2022. Photograph by Mizuho Miyazaki / The Japan Art Association The Sankei Shimbun.
The Ada Louise Huxtable Prize for Contribution to Architecture 2022 has been awarded to the British-Palestinian artist Mona Hatoum, recognizing individuals from the wider architectural industry who have made a significant contribution to the built environment.
“In a world fractured by conflict and exile, the work of Mona Hatoum only gains further relevance and importance. Turning familiar objects into uncanny experiences, she makes visible human fragility and spatial violence.” Architectural Review editor Manon Mollard.
The previous winners of the Jane Drew award include, Kate Macintosh, Lesley Lokko, Yasmeen Lari, Beatriz Colomina, Elizabeth Diller, Amanda Levete, Denise Scott Brown, Odile Decq, Grafton Architects’ founders Yvonne Farrell and Shelley McNamara, Zaha Hadid, Kathryn Findlay of Ushida Findlay and Eva Jiřičná.
Moira Gemmill Prize for Emerging Architecture 2022. In addition to the winners of the Jane Drew and Ada Louise Huxtable prizes, the shortlists have been unveiled for the Moira Gemmill and MJ Long Prizes. The Moira Gemmill Prize for Emerging Architecture recognizes promising designers under the age of 45 who are leading their own practice.
The 2022 shortlist comprises:
- Ana Baptista, co-founder of Colectivo Mel, based in Portugal.
- Rania Ghosn, founding partner of Design Earth, based in the United States.
- Swati Janu, founder of Social Design Collaborative, based in India.
- Sumayya Vally, principal of Counterspace, based in South Africa.
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FARSHID MOUSSAVI
Farshid Moussavi, born in Iran in 1965. Studied architecture at Dundee University, University College London’s Bartlett School of Architecture and Harvard Graduate School of Design. She worked at the Renzo Piano Building Workshop and the Office of Metropolitan Architecture (OMA) before co-founding Foreign Office Architects (FOA) in 1995 where she worked until its demerger in May 2011. She is Professor in Practice of Architecture at Harvard University, USA. She published "The Function of Ornament" in 2006, based on her research and teaching at Harvard, and the second volume, "The Function of Forms", in 2009.
Moussavi has also been a visiting professor at UCLA, Columbia and Princeton, and head of the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna. As well as serving on numerous international design juries, she is a trustee of the Whitechapel Gallery and Architecture Foundation in London, and a member of the Steering Committee of the Aga Khan Award for Architecture.
Farshid Moussavi Architecture (FAM)
Mona Hatoum
Mona Hatoum was born into a Palestinian family in Beirut in 1952. While on a short visit to London in 1975 the outbreak of the Lebanese Civil War prevented her from returning home and she has lived in London ever since. She has held solo exhibitions in numerous museums in Europe, the United States, Canada and Australia. She has also participated in many important international exhibitions including the Venice Biennale (1995 and 2005), Documenta, Kassel (2002 and 2017), Biennale of Sydney (2006) and Istanbul Biennial (1995 and 2011). Recent solo exhibitions include a major survey organised by Centre Pompidou, Paris (2015), Tate Modern, London and KIASMA, Helsinki (2016-2017).
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