Five leading women will be recognized for their design leadership by the Women in Architecture Forum & Awards next month. Now in its second year, the program, presented by Architectural Record magazine, announced the honored women across five categories, including:
Design Leader, honoring an architect with significant built work and influence
Winner: Billie Tsien, founding partner of Tod Williams Billie Tsien, New York
Generation Leader: Honoring an architect who is rising in the profession
Winner: Meejin Yoon, principal and co-founder, Howeler + Yoon Architecture, Boston, and head of the department of architecture at M.I.T.
Innovator: Honoring an architect who has made a mark in innovative design and building technology
Winner: Anna Dyson, professor of design, technology and theory at the School of Architecture at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and founding director of the Center for Architecture, Science and Ecology (CASE)
Activist: Honoring an architect who has used her skills for effecting change in the public realm
Winner: Pat Sapinsley, managing director of Cleantech Initiatives at New York University's Urban Future Lab
Educator: Honoring a professional who has helped the advancement of women.
Winner: Marilyn Jordan Taylor, dean of the School of Design at the University of Pennsylvania
Tsien; Yoon; Dyson
Sapinsley; Taylor
The winners were selected by a jury comprised of Rosalie Genevro, executive director, the Architectural League; critic Sarah Williams Goldhagen; Jill Lerner, principal, KPF; Mark Lamster, architecture critic, The Dallas Morning News; and Mark Regulinski, managing director, SOM.