As a former editor in AD China, I found out that female no longer participates in the construction domain. Women now play a more and more critical role in this area.

  We can see the 2020 Pritzker Prize goes to Yvonne Farrell and Shelley McNamara, co-founders of Grafton Architect, signalling a beacon and a light for other women. They showed us that talent, whether it’s from men or women, is very valuable nowadays. Meanwhile, more and more female shows significant interests in this domain. Womenswear designer Roksanda Ilincic made a splendid interior design, an apartment in London for herself. What impressed me a lot was, she worked with an almost exclusively female team on this project, which led the whole space imbued with femininity and a sense of the texture of what women love.

  Women are passionate, independent, opinionated. They are soft as well as firm enough to against almost everything. They discuss the relationship between natural resources and the craft just like Yvonne Farrell and Shelley McNamara did; They seem to be easier to come from the female perspective, thinking about making women’s lives more accessible in a remarkably unexpected way.

  A sense of architecture and design comes naturally to women. It seems like that construction domain is no longer something men are meant to do or are expected to show advantages in. What’s more, female power in the construction domain may be the new normal.