"We can't make decisions by ticking boxes" says Pritzker Prize executive director
The Pritzker Architecture Prize and the RIBA Royal Gold Medal have defended their diversity policies and addressed the reason why women make up just one per cent of the winners of the two leading architecture prizes combined.
"Sometimes looking at numbers does not mean anything," said Martha Thorne, executive director of the Pritzker. "We can't make decisions by ticking boxes."
"In the future there will be many more female winners," said former RIBA president Jane Duncan. "But we are now looking backwards unfortunately and there are some fantastic men that actually ought to be winning the Royal Gold Medal."
Together the two prestigious awards have been won just one time each by a sole women, compared to 202 times by men. There were five occasions when they were won by mixed-gender teams. Desire to have diversity
Dezeen looked at the gender balance of winners of the world's four leading architecture prizes as part of our Move the Needle initiative.
The Praemium Imperiale has been won by a woman in seven per cent of years, while the RIBA Royal Gold Medal and the AIA Gold Medal have both been won by a woman on one per cent of occasions they have been awarded.
The Pritzker Architecture Prize does slightly better, with two per cent female winners.
"Ticking boxes is not what we do; we don't have a policy," said Thorne. "However, our jury is sensitive and aware of the whole gender issues in architecture.
"There is cle...
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