The first recipient of University of California at Berkeley’s 2012 Berkeley-Rupp Architecture Professorship and Prize goes to Deborah Berke, FAIA, founder and partner of Deborah Berke and Partners in New York.
Awarded by UC Berkeley’s College of Environmental Design, the prize will be given biannually to an architect or academic who has worked to promote the advancement of women in architecture, and whose work exhibits sustainable and community-focused aspects.
Berke’s firm has 33 staff—about half men and half women. She mentors women in the field, and encourages female students as an adjunct professor of architectural design at Yale University. She told ARCHITECT in July that despite the exceptions—among them Zaha Hadid, Hon. FAIA, Jeanne Gang, Elizabeth Diller, and Annabelle Selldorf—the vast majority of women face “death by a thousand cuts,” such as being ignored in male-dominated meetings, low salaries, and student debt.
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Berkeley-Rupp Prize Recipient Deborah Berke: Ongoing Exhibition
January 28 through May, 2013108 Wurster Hall, Architecture Gallery
College of Environmental Design
UC Berkeley
