Uploaded March 2024 | Updated September 2026, 2 days ago

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A pioneer of timber construction and fierce defender of the right to good housing, the Polish-French architect Iwona Buczkowska encourages us to think of architecture’s contribution to social ecology. She is the recipient of the Jane Drew Prize for Architecture 2024, part of the 2024 W Awards for women and non-binary people in architecture 2024, in partnership with the Architects’ Journal.

In this interview, recorded at the CCA, Montreal, Iwona discusses the history of her practice, her advice for young architects, and what she sees as the decline of architectural experimentation, research and pleasure in social housing since the heyday of the 1970s and ’80s.

Learn more about the W Awards, presented in partnership with the CCA (cca.qc.ca/) and the Architects Journal (architectsjournal.co.uk/): architectural-review.com/awards/w-awards

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