Odile Decq (image courtesy of Vogue) and Julia Peyton-Jones (image courtesy of Dezeen).

The Architectural Review (AR) has announced that Odile Decq has won the Jane Drew Prize and Julia Peyton-Jones has been awarded the Ada Louise Huxtable Prize in the annual Women in Architecture Awards. The judges described Odile Decq as ‘a creative powerhouse, spirited breaker of rules and advocate of equality’.

Decq’s key projects range from The Cargo incubator building in Paris to the Fangshan Tangshan National Geopark Museum in Nanjing, China. She has also established her own architectural school in Lyon, the Confluence, which seeks to promote experimentation and work across different disciplines – and shake up the status quo.

The judges celebrated Julia Peyton-Jones’ ‘incredible global impact achieved with limited resources – and as someone who has done so much to nurture architectural vision and make architecture available to many people’.

Both Decq and Peyton-Jones will speak at the annual Women in Architecture Awards luncheon on Friday 4 March at Claridge’s. The winners of the Architect of the Year award and Moira Gemmill Prize for Emerging Architecture will be announced at the lunch.

> via The Architectural Review