New Women in Architecture awards 2018 shortlists revealed

Sandra Barclay, Biba Dow, Ángela García de Paredes and Stephanie Macdonald have been shortlisted for the Woman Architect of the Year 2018 award, for projects in Peru, Spain and the UK. Jointly awarded by the Architects' Journal and The Architectural Review, the Woman Architect of the Year award recognises the architect of a single, recently completed project.

Ángela García de Paredes, co-founder of Paredes Pedrosa, for Two House in Oropesa, Spain. Photograph by Luis Asín

This year’s shortlists for the women Architect of the Year Award and the Moira Gemmill Prize for Emerging Architecture include female architects from around the world. The shortlists bring together architects from the UK, Spain, South Africa, Peru, Paraguay and South Korea.

The Architect of the Year shortlist comprises: Sandra Barclay for the Paracas Museum by Barclay & Crousse, Biba Dow for the Garden Museum in London by Dow Jones, Ángela García de Paredes for Twin Houses in Oropesa by Paredes Pedrosa, and Stephanie Macdonald for Cowan Court in Cambridge by 6a Architects.

In the frame for the Moira Gemmill Prize are: Ilze Wolff of South African practice Wolff Architects, Gloria Cabral of Paraguayan Gabinete de Arquitectura, Anna Puigjnaner and Maria Charneco of Spanish practice MAIO, and Sook-hee Chun of Korean Wise Architecture. Named in memory of the late Moira Gemmill, director of design at the V&A and latterly director of capital programmes at the Royal Collection Trust, this prize comes with a £10,000 fund.

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Anna Puigjaner and Maira Charneco, co-founders of MAIO Architects based in Spain. Photograph by José Hevia

Biba Dow, co-founder of Dow Jones Architects, for the Garden Museum in London, UK. Photograph by David Grandorge

Gloria Cabral, co-founder of Gabinete de Arquitectura based in Paraguay. Photograph by Federico Cairoli

Sandra Barclay, co-founder of Barclay & Crousse Architecture, for the Paracas Museum in Paracas, Peru. Photograph by Jean Pierre Crousse

Stephanie Macdonald, co-founder of 6a Architects, for Cowan Court in Cambridge, UK. Photograph by Johan Dehlin

Sook-hee Chun, co-founder of WISE Architecture based in South Korea. Photograph by Kyung Roh

Ilze Wolff, co-founder of Wolff Architects based in South Africa

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Ángela García de Paredes, Ignacio García Pedrosa. Paredes Pedrosa Arquitectos

Ángela García de Paredes (1958) and Ignacio García Pedrosa (1957) are architects from the Architecture School of Madrid, where they teach. Invited professors in other Spanish and foreign universities for teaching, critics and speakers. They founded Paredes Pedrosa Studio in 1990, after collaborating with José María García de Paredes for several years.

They are authors of, among other works, the Valdemaqueda Town Hall, Valle Inclán Theatre in Madrid, the Archaeological Museum of Almería, Peñíscola Auditorium, La Olmeda Roman Ville, Ceuta Library or the Lugo Auditorium. Their work has been recognized with the 2007 Spanish Architecture National Award, ar+d Award, Europan II and IV, Europa Nostra, Madrid Architecture Award, Mansilla Award, Gold Medal International Prize for Sustainable Architecture, Mediterranean Sustainable Architecture Award and 'Golden Medal for the Merit in Fine Arts' 2014, given by the Culture and Sports Spanish Ministery. Their work has been exhibited in many national and international architecture biennials.

Ángela García de Paredes Falla

Ángela García de Paredes Falla (Madrid, 1958) is architect from the Higher Technical School of Architecture of Madrid in 1982 and a doctor, Extraordinary Prize for doctoral thesis - dedicated to the work of her father, José María García de Paredes - from the Polytechnic University of Madrid in 2015, where she is a professor in the Department of Architectural Projects.

She began working as an architect collaborating, together with her husband Ignacio Pedrosa, in her father's studio which, after his death in 1990, became Paredes Pedrosa arquitectos Estudio de Arquitectura.

She is vice president of the Manuel de Falla Foundation, founded by her mother, and Academician of the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of San Fernando for the Architecture Section.

In 1990 he joined forces with Ignacio Pedrosa with whom he shares his professional and research activities, having obtained numerous first prizes in competitions and having built more than twenty buildings, and having been awarded the Gold Medal for Merit in Fine Arts 2014. In addition, his work has been exhibited at the Venice International Architecture Biennale in various editions.

Ignacio García Pedrosa

Ignacio García Pedrosa (Madrid, 1957) is architect from the Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura de Madrid, where he obtained his doctorate in 2015, receiving an extraordinary award for his thesis Auditorium, a typology of the 20th century.

Since 1995 he has been an associate professor of Architectural Projects at the ETSAM and has been a guest professor at various institutions such as the IUAV in Venice, the School of Architecture of the Polytechnic University of Valencia, etc.

In 1990 he joined forces with his wife, Ángela García de Paredes, to open the Paredes Pedrosa studio. In his professional career they have won first prizes in competitions and built more than twenty buildings, highlighting public works of a cultural nature and public housing.

Sandra Barclay + Jean Pierre Crousse Barclay & Crousse

Barclay & Crousse. Their work manage a wide range of programs and focuses both on the relationship to place and human wellbeing, through pertinence in usage and attention to time, space and light. They like to consider their projects as being part of a design laboratory that explore the bonds between landscape, climate and architecture, in order to challenge those notions of technology, usage, and quality of life that, from the specific conditions of developing countries, can inform and be pertinent in a global context.

Founded in 1994 in Paris, since 2006 the studio is based in Lima, pursuing its activity in France with the Parisian studio Atelier Nord-Sud. Their work has been recognized by the first Oscar Niemeyer Prize, and in several international Biennales. They have been awarded by the International Committee of Architectural Critics (CICA) with the 2013 Latin America Prize. Barclay & Crousse has earned the Peruvian Architecture National Prize, Hexágono de Oro, in 2014. Their work has been exhibited and published worldwide. The Italian editor Lettera Ventidue published in 2012 a monographic book about their work in the Peruvian desert coastline, presented at the 13th Venice Biennale.

Sandra Barclay

1967 born in Lima (Peru). 1990 Graduated as Architect at URP (Lima). 1993 Graduated as Architect at the Ecole d’Architecture de Paris-Belleville (France). 1993 Robert Camelot Prize for best Architectural Thesis in France. 1994 Established Barclay & Crousse Architecture in Paris, France. 2000 Fulbrignt Foundation and American Institute of Architects Fellowship. 2005-2006 Teacher at the Ecole d’Architecture de Paris La Villette (Paris, France). 2006 Teacher at the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú. 2012 Participant for Peru at the 13th Venice Biennale. 2013 Master in Territory and Landscape, Universidad Diego Portales (Chile). 2016 Curator of the Peruvian Pavilion at the 15th Venice Biennale.

Jean Pierre Crousse

1963 Born in Lima (Peru). 1987 Architecture degree at URP (Lima). 1989 graduated at the Politécnico di Milano (Italy). 1994 Established Barclay & Crousse Architecture in Paris, France. 1999-2006 Teacher at the Ecole d’Architecture de Paris Belleville (France). 2006 Teacher at the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú. 2012 Member of the South America Project, GSD – Harvard University. 2012 Participant for Peru at the 13th Venice Biennale. 2013 Master in Territory and Landscape, Universidad Diego Portales (Chile). 2015 Design Critic at the Graduate School of Design, Harvard University. 2016 Member of the International Jury of the Mies Crown Hall Americas Prize, Chicago. 2016 Curator of the Peruvian Pavilion at the 15th Venice Biennale.

Maria Charneco, Alfredo Lérida, Guillermo López, Anna Puigjaner. MAIO

MAIO brings together creators to generate ideas and architectural solutions in order to re-imagine objects and sites. MAIO was founded in 2005. It is currently led by Maria Charneco, Alfredo Lérida, Guillermo López and Anna Puigjaner, architects based in Barcelona, that combine professional activities with academic and research ones.

The works done by MAIO have been published in magazines such as ONdiseño and DETAIL among others. MAIO has been awarded several times, among which stands out: LampLighting Solutions Award 2009, FAD Award finalist in 2007 and 2008, Girona College of Architects Award in 2007, New Working Fields Award finalist in 2009 of the National College of Architects of Spain CSCAE, and finalist of the Arquia/Proxima Award in 2010 of the Architect’s Bank Foundation ARQUIA.

People and others that have collaborated in MAIO projects: Olga Felip, Josep Camps, Maria Charneco, Alfredo Lérida, Guillermo López, Anna Puigjaner, GMK, Saint-Gobain, Schott, Mecrimar, Construmat-Fira de Barcelona, Ajuntament de Barcelona, Toldos Maillol, Brigadas Municipales del Ayuntamiento de Girona, Aceroid, Lamp Lighting, Rètols Gispert, Metàl·lics Cabratosa, Vallès School of Architecture ETSAV.

Stephanie Macdonald, Tom Emerson. 6a architects

6a architects. Architecture practice founded by Stephanie Macdonald and Tom Emerson in 2001 based in London, United Kingdom. Illustrate in their projects a sophisticated experience of space, light and material, also using locations throughout their history. Their work is surprising through its sovereign sense of lightness and originality, without disowning any of its sobriety.

Stephanie Macdonald, studied Fine Arts at the Portsmouth School of Art. Following a scholarship in Japan, he studied architecture at the Mackintosh School of Architecture, the Royal College of Art and the University of North London. His experience before moving to private professional practice includes working with Tom Dixon and collaborations with Glasgow artists. He has lectured to the new creative industries in Berlin representing the ICA and the British Council.

Tom Emerson studied architecture at the University of Bath, the Royal College of Art and the University of Cambridge. He combines his professional practice with teaching at the Architectural Association in London. He has published articles on architecture, literature and art, and has taught at several architecture and art schools, including the Chelsea School of Art at the University of Cambridge, the ICA and the Royal College of Art.