Sarah Wigglesworth

Sarah Wigglesworth founded her London-based practice in 1993. It aimed to explore sustainable environments in all forms. It has won many awards, including the RIBA Sustainability Award for 9/10 Stock Orchard Street, an experiment exploring sustainable living on a brownfield site in north London. Other awards include RIBA Awards for Cremorne Canoeing Centre (2008), Siobhan Davies Studios (2006), and NLA awards for The Kingston Cycle Hub and Bridge (2021). In addition to her practice, between 1998 and 2016, Sarah was Professor of Architecture at the University of Sheffield, where she led the design research project DWELL (dwell.group.shef.ac.uk). She has sat on a number of committees, such as the President’s Awards for Research, the Gold Medal selection panel, and the Procurement Taskforce, all for the RIBA. She sits on several Design Review Panels. Sarah is committed to advocating for gender equity in the industry and is a member of Part W. She has published extensively and, in addition to authoring numerous essays, she is joint author of "Desiring Practices: architecture, gender, and the interdisciplinary" (Black Dog Press, 1996) and (with Jeremy Till) "The Everyday and Architecture" (Academy Wiley, 1998). The book she edited, entitled "Around and About Stock Orchard Street," was published by Routledge in 2011. She was awarded an MBE for services to architecture in 2003 and made an RDI in 2012.