Flora Samuel

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]

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.