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Flora Samuel is a British architect, author and academic. In 2009 she became the Head of the School of Architecture at Sheffield University, the first woman to hold the post. [1] Prior to this, she worked for ten years at the Welsh School of Architecture, Cardiff. [1] She was educated at the University of Cambridge [1] where she is presently Professor of Architecture (1970) and director of the forthcoming Cambridge Urban Room. [2]

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Samuel previously held the post of Professor of Architecture in the Built Environment at the University of Reading, where she helped set up a new industry-led architecture school in close collaboration with construction. [3] She was appointed as the first RIBA Vice President for Research in 2018.

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  1. 1 2 3 Steve Parnell, Flora Samuel: "I'm not sure the term architect really describes what we do any more", The Architects' Journal, 26 February 2010. Retrieved 2020-01-25.
  2. Grove, M. L. R. (13 March 2023). "Professor Flora Samuel". www.arct.cam.ac.uk. Retrieved 19 September 2024.
  3. Kinnaird, Byron; Ashworth, Susie (1 November 2018). "In conversation with ... Flora Samuel". Parlour. Retrieved 13 May 2020.
  4. Le Corbusier: Architect and Feminist, Journal of Design History, Vol. 18, Issue 2, Summer 2005.
  5. Simon Richards, Le Corbusier and the Architectural Promenade, Times Higher Education, 10 March 2011. Retrieved (online) 2012-03-03.