This has been a big season for celebrating the achievements of women. RECORD's annual Women in Architecture Design Leadership awards have just honored five exceptional professionals, whose broad range of accomplishments are having a profound impact. The beauty of the work of this year’s Design Leader Toshiko Mori can be seen in the exploration of ideas, materials, and details in projects such as the art center THREAD, in Senegal, while the expressiveness of New Generation Leader Sharon Johnston is exemplified in the Menil Drawing Center in Houston and the rough-and-ready Margo Leavin Graduate Art Studios at UCLA.
Claire Weisz is honored as this year’s Innovator for stretching the boundaries of practice in her work in the public realm. Similarly, the Activist award-winner, Dana Cuff, is intensely engaged in civic design as founding director of UCLA’s cityLAB. Notably she was coauthor of the California legislation to allow accessory dwelling units on singlefamily lots across the state, to address affordable-housing shortages. This year’s Educator honoree, Mabel O. Wilson, professor of architecture and of African American and African Diasporic Studies at Columbia University, has deeply probed the history of race and racism in the built environment, as both a scholar and a practitioner.
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