Dr Jane Hall is the inaugural recipient of the British Council Lina Bo Bardi Fellowship (2013) and a founding member of the architecture collective Assemble. In 2015, Assemble won the Turner Prize for their work refurbishing a series of houses in collaboration with residents in Granby, Liverpool and were recently elected as Royal Academicians. Jane completed a PhD at the Royal College of Art, London (2018) on the legacy of modernist architects in Brazil and the UK in the immediate postwar period. With Assemble, Jane has delivered a number of high profile public art and exhibition commissions, including The Brutalist Playground (2015), Skating Situations (2021), Charlotte Perriand (2021), Dreamachine (2022) and the recently completed Bill Brown Creative Workshops for Churchill College, University of Cambridge. She is currently the Project Lead for a new Maggie’s, a cancer care and support centre, in Maidstone, Kent.
Jane has been a jury member for the Stirling Prize (2017), and a visiting lecturer at the Architectural Association (AA), Royal College of Art (RCA), Bartlett School of Architecture and the University of Cambridge. Jane is the author of two books, Breaking Ground: Architecture by Women (Phaidon, 2019) and Woman Made (Phaidon, 2021), which are about the work of women architects and designers globally. She is currently writing a narrative history of gender, sisterhood and queerness in architecture.
