Where Are The Women Architects?
How can the built environment be designed without the input of half the population?
Sumita’s talk will focus on what women can do during education and work to help themselves and what support they need from practices and institutions in order to do this.
Sumita Singha OBE, RIBA is an award winning architect, teacher and writer. She founded Architects For Change, the Equality forum at RIBA. Singha has served on many RIBA committees for over 25 years and on the NHS Board for nine years. Sumita is a trustee of four built environment charities including the Architects Benevolent Society, and the founding director of Charushila, an environmental design charity. Sumita is the RIBA Board Trustee for Education. She has taught architecture for over 25 years. Singha is the author of many publications on architecture. She received an OBE for services to architecture in 2021.
The talk is chaired by Lucy Bullivant Hon FRIBA, Trustee, Temple Bar Trust.
