Are there many female architects

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Join Login. News Read Submit Archive. Measuring Progress on Gender in Architecture. Where Are the Women? ACSA Research. Already have an account? Learn more. Stay in Touch. Fill out my online form. Facebook Instagram Twitter Linkedin Youtube. Advertise Contact Join Login. Privacy Sitemap. OK Learn more. The company confirmed that these figures are correct. The company also told Dezeen: "Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios are part-way through a study of opportunities to encourage and facilitate greater diversity, with an additional aim to improve retention, and the promotion, of senior women over the coming years, for the broader benefit of the practice.

Founder and executive chairman: man Senior executive partners: nine men Senior partners: one woman, 18 men. Foster himself is listed as the founder and executive chairman of the firm on its website. There are nine male senior executive partners and 19 senior partners, one of which is female.

In total, the senior executive parters and senior partners are three per cent female. The firm confirmed these figures. CEOs: one woman, one man Board of directors: five women, seven men. Gensler is the biggest architecture firm in the world according to the WA The company is headed by two CEOs: one male and one female. Its board of directors is comprised of 14 people, five of which are female. This means the firm's senior team is 43 per cent female. Gensler confirmed that the staffing information on its website is correct.

The practice was founded by a man and according to its website has an eight-person management team, which includes one woman. Therefore the proportion of women at management level is 11 per cent. National practice leader: man Strategic leadership team: one woman, four men Sector leaders: one woman, nine men. According to its website, the national practice leader is a man and on the leadership team, there are four men and one woman. There are a further 10 sector leaders, of which one is female.

This makes the senior team 13 per cent female. There was no email address listed on its website to confirm these figures. Founding partners: two men Partners: three men Associate partners: one woman, 10 men. Headquartered in Hamburg, GMP Architekten has constructed over buildings worldwide since it was founded in In total the practice has over employees that work across its 13 offices.

The website states that GMP's two founding partners are both male. The practice has three partners, none of which are female. The practice also has 11 associate partners, one is female. These figures were confirmed by the practice, meaning GMP's founding partners, partners and associate parters are six per cent female.

GMP also sent through the firm's gender stats for all its global offices, which state that there are male employees and female employees. Therefore the proportion of women in the entire practice is 32 per cent. According to its website, the firm has an all-male senior team, comprised of the chairman and founder, CEO, four principals, and four associate design directors.

This makes the proportion of women at the top level zero per cent. Specialising in residential projects and masterplanning in the Americas, GVA has offices throughout Mexico, Colombia and the Caribbean — it also has a company base in London. The practice is headed by a male founder and executive chairman, and a male president and CEO. Leadership is also provided by a team made up of a male vice president, 15 male directors and four male managers.

Therefore the proportion of women is zero per cent. According to its website, Haeahn is run by five male presidents. Leadership is also provided by the practice's two vice chairmen, both of which are male. Therefore, the top-tier management of the firm is zero per cent female.

The "people" page of firm's website does list some women at executive director level, but the first 59 people listed — presumably in order of seniority — are all male. National practice director: man Other "key people": one woman, 17 men. Currently, the national practice director is a man. According to its website, there are 18 "key people" and out of those, one is a woman.

Therefore, the proportion of female "key people" is five per cent. Chairman and executive officer: man Board of directors: one woman, six men. HDR is a multi-disciplinary American architecture practice that has 10, employees in offices around the world.

The firm is listed on the WA as the fifth largest firm in the world. According to its website, HDR is headed by a male chairman and chief executive officer, and is overseen by a board of directors made up of one woman and six men. This makes the board 13 per cent female. We contacted HDR via its website but they had not replied at the time of publication to confirm these figures were up to date.

CEO: man Managing directors: man Corporate advisors: seven men Department leadership: three women, 36 men. Heerim Architects' head office is located in Seoul.

Since it was founded in , the South Korean practice has grown to a workforce of 1, employees. Heerim Architects is led by a male CEO and two male managing directors.

The board of corporate advisors consists of seven men. The practice also has 39 department leaders, three of which are women. Therefore six per cent of staff listed under the "leadership" section of the firm's website are female.

CEO: male Partners: 14 men Senior associates: three women, 22 men. The firm is led by a male CEO and an all-male team of 14 partners. There are 25 senior associates; three are female and 22 are male. Therefore, the proportion of female partners and senior associates at HENN is 7. CEO: female Partners: five women, 10 men International partners: two women, two men.

Henning Larsen Architects told Dezeen that the firm is headed by a female CEO and five out of the 15 parters are female. Two out of four partners in Henning Larsen's international subsidiaries are also female. This makes 37 per cent of the partners female. Headquartered in Dallas, HKS is an architecture practice with projects in over 1, cities across the world. It employs almost architects. According to its website, the president and CEO is male, as are the two executive vice presidents.

The remainder of the board of directors is made up of four men. Therefore the firm's executive- and director-level management is zero per cent female.

HOK is a global architecture firm that employs 1, people across three continents. It is the eight largest firm in the world according to the WA There are six other firm leaders, two of which are women. Therefore the proportion of women according to the "firm-wide" leadership section of its website is 25 per cent. Managing directors: two men Directors and partners: two women, 13 men.

According to the "directors and partners" section of its website, it is now led by two male managing directors and has 15 other directors and partners, two of which are female. This means that 12 per cent of the directors and partners are female. Its CEO is male, as shown on its website, but no other employee information is available. IBI Group is an integrative architecture firm that specialises in planning, engineering and technology. The rest of the board consists of two women and two men.

The firm also has a management team made up of a further 22 staff members, two of which are female. This means the board is 40 per cent female while the management team is nine per cent female. This information was taken from the IBI website and had not been confirmed as up to date at the time of publication.

It has one president and three managing directors, all are male. The company's figureheads are zero per cent female. It now has architects and is headquartered in Tokyo.

The chairman and CEO is male, but no other employee information is displayed on the firm's website, nor is there an email address to contact. Chairman: man Members of management board: one woman, nine men. According to its website, the practice is headed by a male chair and a management board of nine male staff members and one female. Therefore, the proportion of women at board level is nine per cent. Jacobs' website did not provide any information on staff gender ratios, and the practice did not respond to our emails.

Jaspers-Eyers Architects is an international practice with studios in Brussels, Leuven and Hasselt, currently employing around architects. The practice was founded by two men. No other information about its employees is shown on its website and the firm had not responded to our emails at the time of publication. CEO: man C-suite leaders: five men Executives: 15 men. Headquartered in Seoul, Junglim Architecture has a team of over architects that work on large-scale projects locally and internationally.

Leadership is also provided by five C-suite leaders, none of which are female, and 15 all-male executives. Therefore the firm's top-level management is zero per cent female. According to the "corporate leadership" page of its website, the company has a male chairman, and a female president and chief executive officer. It lists 18 further corporate leaders, of which three are female. Thus the female proportion of the leadership team 20 per cent. According to its website, the practice has a male president and a male chairman.

It has 23 principals, of which two are female, and there are 12 female directors of of a total of 39 directors. The firm was one of the few that responded at length to our requests for further information, stating that it has 27 male and 13 female senior associate principals, as well as 33 male and 24 female associate principals.

Therefore in what the company considers its top staff positions, 32 per cent of employees are female. When asked about its thoughts on gender ratios, KPF president Jamie von Klemperer said: "KPF strives to maintain an equitable practice and provide opportunities to our diverse, multicultural staff and leadership. We are actively increasing female participation in the firm's partnership, and have committed to doubling our female senior leadership by the Fall of The firm aspires to reach a 50 per cent or greater female leadership and continues to expand our perspective with representation from a myriad of cultures, ideologies, and backgrounds.

Kume Sekkei was established in , and now has approximately members of staff. The practice's head office is located in Tokyo. Kume Sekkei's website only provided information on the practice's CEO, who is male. The company did not respond to requests for more staff information. Founded in , Kunwon are a Seoul-based architectural practice that focusses on residential and urban environment design. Of the other eight people listed on the "people leading Kunwon" section of its website, one is female.

Therefore the top management tier is nine per cent female. The email provided on the firm's website is not valid so we were unable to contact Kunwon for confirmation. According to its website, the founders of the practice are both male. There are five female partners and eight male. This makes the proportion of women at associate level 33 per cent. Lemay Michaud had not replied to our emails at the time of publication to verify these figures found on its website.

Of the seven other corporate leaders and nine office leaders, there are no women. Therefore, the firm's "corporate" and "office" leadership as listed on its website is zero per cent female.

According to its website, the company has 14 "key people", six of which are women. This means the company is led by a per-cent female team. The practice did not confirm these figures but told us: "The Link Arkitektur gender ratio on senior staff is 45 per cent male and 55 per cent female. According to the firm, the CEO of MG2 is male and four of the 18 people of the firm's "leadership team" are women. Therefore, the proportion of women at the firm's most senior level is five per cent.

Firm leadership is in the process of launching an internal equity advocacy committee comprised of male and female staff to oversee the plan's implementation. Headquartered in Tokyo, Mitsubishi Jisho Sekkei was the design division of the giant Mitsubishi Estate property company until , when it became a separate company. According to its website, it is led by a male president and CEO, a male deputy president and four male executive vice presidents.

Therefore the firm's leadership is zero per cent female. Founded in , India-based Morphogenesis is a cross-disciplinary team comprised of architects, interior designers, landscape architects, urban designers, 3D visualisers and researchers. According to the Morphogenesis website, one of the two founding partners is female and the other is male.

The staffing structure below this point is unclear. The firm told Dezeen that "while there isn't a policy as such for gender balance at the firm, we do have a FLEX policy in place for women employees," and "the current female to male ratio at Morphogenesis is exactly National Engineering Bureau is a consultancy firm that was established in The three senior figures listed on its website are male: two partners and a general manager.

Therefore, the company's figureheads are zero per cent female. The company had not replied to our email requests for further information at the time of publication. C-suite leaders: Partner and director of communications: female Partner and COO: female Managing partner: male Design partner: male Other managing partners and partners: one women, 12 men.

All C-suite leaders have partner or managing partner titles, then there are a further 13 partners, one of which is female. Therefore, the proportion of female C-suite leaders is 50 per cent and other partners is 26 per cent. Headquartered in Tokyo, Nihon Sekkei has grown to a workforce of nearly 1, employees since its establishment in The practice has six offices across Japan, as well as three further spaces in China, Vietnam and Indonesia. The "leadership" section of Nihon Sekkei's website lists a further 30 male executives, meaning the percentage of females at the top level is zero.

Chairman: man Vice chairman: man Vice presidents: three men Executive committee: 24 men. Tokyo-based Nikken Sekkei is an architectural consultancy group that employs over 2, people. According to the WA, it is the second biggest firm in the world. According to the "key people" page on the firm's website , the practice is lead by a male chairman and male vice chairman.

The practice also has three vice presidents, all of which are male, and an executive committee of 24, all of which are male. Therefore the firm's senior management team is zero per cent female. Principal partner and chairman: man CEO: man Partners: two women, five men.

Based in Oslo, Nordic Office of Architecture is an architecture practice that was founded in , with additional offices in Copenhagen and London.

According to its website, the firm has a male chairman and male CEO, and there are five male partners and two female. This makes the proportion of women 22 per cent. The company had not replied to our emails at the time of publication to verify these figures found on its website. It has over 2, employees working in over 70 cities. According to its website, the management team is made up of 38 group directors, seven of which are female.

This means the firm's management team is 18 per cent female. The firm did not confirm these figures but gave us the gender figures for the architecture department at its Hong Kong office, which employs women and men. This makes the proportion of women 28 per cent. Arieff points out that the culture of male dominance runs deep in the architecture profession. Arieff reports that one prominent architect, Richard Meier, was forced to step down from a leadership role in his firm after allegations from five women.

Change is coming. Yes, please, more female architects! I have confidence that this issue will be resolved once we have more female architects!

I wonder if one more impediment for getting women into architecture is that many middle school females are no longer encouraged to pursue math and science, and may even be dissuaded.