INTERVIEW:WALTERS & COHEN
“Too young, too foreign and too female to ever succeed”
That’swhatWalters and Cohenwere toldwhen they started their practice in 1994, but oh howtimes have changed…
Michál Cohen and Cindy Walters have led their practice to phenomenal success since its inception eighteen years ago. And now their status as rolemodels to all young ambitious architects, particularly women, has been compounded after they were awarded the AJ ‘Woman Architect of the Year’ Award.
Zaha Hadid, Amanda Levete, SarahWigglesworth and Debroah Saunt to win. Believed to be the first in the
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UK to be set up by two women and with a workforce whose oestrogen levels drastically outweigh the national average, their practice has earned a
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he dynamic duo topped a shortlist of strong competitors including
reputation for delivering design excellence and creating buildings that express a profound sense of place. Indeed,Walters and Cohen has been behindmany high profile projects in recent years. As well as being adamant
that architecture should be not only beautiful but should serve a civic and social purpose, bothWalters and Cohen are
keen to share their skills with the next generation of aspiring young architects. Both have an active involvement with the RIBA and in teaching and examining at architecture schools. Cohen's commitment to the
role of design in the learning environment is well established; she speaks regularly at conferences and
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