Iwona Buczkowska and Angela Davis named winners of the 2024 Jane Drew and Ada Louise Huxtable Prizes
08/02/2024.
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French architect and urban planner Iwona Buczkowska has been awarded the 2024 Jane Drew Prize for Architecture and the American Marxist philosopher and politician Angela Davis has been awarded the Ada Louise Huxtable Prize for her contribution to Architecture.
The Jane Drew Award belonging to the W Awards recognizes the work and commitment to project excellence of different architects, however, the Ada Louise Huxtable Award recognizes anyone, architect or not, who has contributed significantly to architecture. and to the entire world of construction.
The Jane Drew Award belonging to the W Awards recognizes the work and commitment to project excellence of different architects, however, the Ada Louise Huxtable Award recognizes anyone, architect or not, who has contributed significantly to architecture. and to the entire world of construction.
Iwona Buczkowska. Photograph by Patricia Stroud.
Iwona Buczkowska, photograph by Patricia Stroud, and Angela Davis photograph by courtesy of Oregon State University.
Architect Iwona Buczkowska has been awarded the Jane Drew Prize for Architecture 2024, an award recognising an architectural designer who, through their work and commitment to design excellence, has raised the profile of women in architecture. The Polish-French architect designed the largest timber housing complex in France, the Cité Pierre Sémard – a social housing project of 225 units completed in 1992 in Seine-Saint-Denis. Founding her practice Atelier Iwona Buczkowska in 1980, Buczkowska has completed several radical social housing projects and public buildings in France.
"Iwona Buczkowska is both a pioneer of timber construction and a fierce defender of the right to good housing. Rejecting standardisation, she prefers arcs and oblique planes to create intimate and brightly lit homes, and encourages us to think of architecture’s contribution to social ecology. Buczkowska’s buildings need to be preserved, and her ideas celebrated".
Manon Mollard, Editor of The Architectural Review.
The previous winners of the Jane Drew award include: Kazuyo Sejima (2023), Farshid Moussavi (2022), Kate Macintosh (2021), Yasmeen Lari (2020), Elizabeth (Diller 2019), Amanda Levete (2018), Denise Scott Brown, Odile Decq, Grafton Architects’ founders Yvonne Farrell and Shelley McNamara, Zaha Hadid, Kathryn Findlay of Ushida Findlay and Eva Jiřičná.
Angela Davis. Photograph by Oregon State University.
Political activist, philosopher and writer Angela Daviss is the winner of the Ada Louise Huxtable Prize for Contribution to Architecture 2024, which recognises individuals, from fields adjacent to and that intersect with architecture, who have made a significant contribution to architecture and the built environment. Davis is a leader of the movement for abolition of the prison system as well as an important voice in other fields of civil rights activism. Davis’s latest book Abolition: Politics, Practices, Promises, Volume 1 is due to be published by Penguin in March.
"Angela Davis’s activism and leadership is as relevant and pertinent to architecture as it has ever been. Her work highlights the complicity of architecture as a tool of violence and encourages architects to advocate for spatial justice. Davis continues to speak truth to power, setting an example for architects around the world."
Eleanor Beaumont, Deputy Editor of The Architectural Review.
Previous winners include: founder of the CCA Phyllis Lambert (2023), British-Palestinian sculptor and artist Mona Hatoum (2022), educator and writer Lesley Lokko (2021), academic and writer Beatriz Colomina (2020), photographer Hélène Binet (2019), Dutch artist Madelon Vriesendorp (2018), British sculptor Rachel Whiteread (2017), former director of the Serpentine Galleries Julia Peyton-Jones (2016), and architecture patron Jane Priestman (2015).
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Iwona Buczkowska
Iwona Buczkowska is a French architect and urban planner born in Poland, from the Special School of Architecture in Paris, as well as an architect from the Polytechnic School of Gdansk (Poland).
Buczkowska received the Gold Medal and the Special Prize at the Fifth World Architecture Biennale in Sofia in 1989 for her project in Le Blanc-Mesnil and the silver medal and the Delarue Prize in 1994 from the Academy of Architecture for the complete work of hers. In 2003, she received the Grand Public Prize for Architecture of the Ile-de-France region for her work on Le Blanc-Mesnil.
Buczkowska received the Gold Medal and the Special Prize at the Fifth World Architecture Biennale in Sofia in 1989 for her project in Le Blanc-Mesnil and the silver medal and the Delarue Prize in 1994 from the Academy of Architecture for the complete work of hers. In 2003, she received the Grand Public Prize for Architecture of the Ile-de-France region for her work on Le Blanc-Mesnil.
Angela Davis
Angela Davis is a philosopher, Marxist politician, Afro-descendant activist and professor in the Department of History of Consciousness at the University of California at Santa Cruz in the United States, born in Alabana, United States, on January 26, 1944.
In 1969 she was expelled from the University of California, where she taught philosophy classes as an assistant professor for belonging to the Communist Party of the United States. She was linked to the Black Panther movement, but she was not part of it. She was also involved in the case of "The Brothers of Soledad", for which she was sentenced to capital punishment for kidnapping and murder, but she was released after the mobilization of progressive organizations around the world.
In 1974 she became a member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the United States. In 1976, after publishing her autobiography, she returned to teaching. In 1984, in the company of the then leader of the CPUSA, she presented her candidacy for the vice presidency of the United States.
In 1969 she was expelled from the University of California, where she taught philosophy classes as an assistant professor for belonging to the Communist Party of the United States. She was linked to the Black Panther movement, but she was not part of it. She was also involved in the case of "The Brothers of Soledad", for which she was sentenced to capital punishment for kidnapping and murder, but she was released after the mobilization of progressive organizations around the world.
In 1974 she became a member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the United States. In 1976, after publishing her autobiography, she returned to teaching. In 1984, in the company of the then leader of the CPUSA, she presented her candidacy for the vice presidency of the United States.
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