Polish-French architect Iwona Buczkowska has won the Jane Drew Prize for 2024 for elevating the profile of women in architecture through her design work.
Buczkowska is the director of Atelier Iwona Buczkowska, which she founded in 1980.
As part of her studio, she has completed several public buildings and social housing projects in France, including Cité Pierre Sémard ? the country's largest timber residential complex.
Above: Iwona Buczkowska has won the 2024 Jane Drew Prize. Photo by Patricia Stroud. Top image: Buczkowska (left) is joined by Angela Davis (right) who is another winner in the W Awards 2024
The annual Jane Drew Prize forms part of the W Awards, formerly Women in Architecture, which was founded by The Architectural Review and Architects' Journal to raise the profile of women and non-binary people in the profession. Previous winners of the prize include architects Kate Macintosh, Yasmeen Lari and Zaha Hadid.
Editor of The Architectural Review Manon Mollard said Buczkowska was selected as this year's laureate for being "a pioneer of timber construction and a fierce defender of the right to good housing".

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"Rejecting standardisation, she prefers arcs and oblique planes to create intimate and brightly lit homes, and encourages us to think of architecture's contribution to social ecology," said Mollard.
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