Architecture Award Honors Five Women
Architecture and Urban Design Professor Dana Cuff receives Women in Architecture Award for activism
Dana Cuff, professor of architecture and urban design and founding director of UCLA cityLAB was recognized for her activsm by Architectural Record's 2019 Women in Architecture Awards. In 2016, after a decade of design research, cityLAB co-authored landmark state legislation to encourage Accessory Dwelling Units effectively ending single-family zoning in California and enabling the design and construction of millions of small rental units. cityLAB is now experimenting with “schoolyard housing” that would integrate affordable apartments on strategic sites at kindergarten through college campuses.
Sharon Johnston, whose firm, Johnston Marklee, designed the expanded UCLA Margo Leavin Graduate Art Studios, was also recognized with a New Generation Leader award.
"The magazine Architectural Record is honoring five winners for outstanding achievement in the field in this year’s Women in Architecture Awards, which were announced on Friday. The winners are: Toshiko Mori, Sharon Johnston, Claire Weisz, Mabel O. Wilson and Dana Cuff.'The range of smart, passionate talent in these different fields related to architecture and design is inspiring and it’s also informative,' John King, the architecture critic for the San Francisco Chronicle who was a member of the independent jury for the award, said in a telephone interview. 'There is such talent that is working on very important and interesting design and social challenges.'"
"Ms. Johnston was recognized as a new generation leader — a category that Cathleen McGuigan, the editor in chief of Architectural Record, said was intended to honor a woman who is 'rising in her profession.' Ms. Johnston is the co-founder of the firm Johnston Marklee, whose projects have included the Menil Drawing Institute in Houston and the U.C.L.A. Margo Leavin Graduate Art Studios in Culver City."
"In the activist category the honoree was Dana Cuff, a professor at U.C.L.A. and the founder and director of the urban research group cityLAB. She is an expert in affordable housing and has been a co-author of legislation to address housing shortages in California."
— Sophie Haigney, September 8, 2019
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