Architectural Association elects Eva Franch i Gilabert as next director
The New York-based architect, curator, and educator won 67 percent of the votes One of the most prestigious architecture schools in the world has elected a new director and it?s poised to be a historic appointment. After counting votes from 1,077 students, faculty, and members of its community, U.K.?s Architectural Association School of Architecture has announced a clear winner: New York-based Spanish architect, curator, educator, and lecturer Eva Franch i Gilabert.
Franch soared past two other candidates on the ballot, pulling in 67 percent of total votes, the highest majority in the school?s contested elections since 1990. She is also the first woman to be elected as director of the AA.
All of the shortlisted candidates made presentations to the AA community in recent weeks. In Franch?s vision statement, she said: I believe that architecture is the discipline with the privilege and duty to articulate the different desires and realities of society in a specific moment in time. Architecture has the ability to bring together the social, the economic, the political and the technological in a project of collective aspiration. But more importantly, architecture is the discipline that understands society as a whole, being able to advocate for those who are unable to sit down at the decision-making table. Architecture sits for all.
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