The rising power and influence of women in the architectural culture of the United States – Cathleen McGuigan

About: Cathleen McGuigan, is editor-in-chief of Architectural Record, the nation’s leading architecture publication for 127 years. Under her leadership, Record has won the Grand Neal Award, the top American Business Media award for overall excellence, among numerous other editorial awards. In addition, she oversaw the launch of Record’s Women in Architecture Design Leadership annual awards program in 2014, to recognize the contributions of women in the profession. It is the only honour of its kind in the U.S. A former architecture critic and arts editor of Newsweek, she has a BA from Brown University and was awarded a Loeb Fellowship at the Graduate School of Design at Harvard. She has taught at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism and has been a Poynter Fellow at Yale. Besides Newsweek and Record, her articles have appeared in such publications as The New York Times Magazine, Smithsonian, and Rolling Stone. She sits on the board of trustees of the Skyscraper Museum and the Center for Architecture in New York and is on the advisory council of the Beverly Willis Architecture Foundation.