It's now 20 years since a solo woman won the Pritzker Architecture Prize. The profession's most prestigious award must do better, writes Tom Ravenscroft.

It is 20 years since Zaha Hadid won the Pritzker Architecture Prize, yet somehow she remains the only solo woman to have won the accolade.
Just days before International Women's Day today, the Pritzker jury again named a man ? this time Riken Yamamoto ? as this year's laureate. It is the third year in a row that a solo man has been given the award. For Pritzker, this is very much business as usual.
Since Hadid's victory two decades ago, the prize has been awarded to individual men on 16 occasions. All of the women that have been awarded the honour, aside from Hadid, have been in partnerships ? nearly always with men. Are there really no more women deserving of architecture's highest prize"            'Yamamoto takes the tally of Japanese male winners to eight'
After a brief dabble in recognising the work of women architects ? Yvonne Farrell and Shelley McNamara winning in 2020 and Lacaton & Vassal in 2021 ? it looks like the Pritzker Prize has now reverted to form, again presenting the award to a very established Japanese architect. Yamamoto takes the tally of Japanese male winners to eight, pulling two clear of the total number of female winners in the global award's 45-year history.
The Pritzker jury's ongoing recognition of male architects from the Global North is either a damning reflection of the sta...