Alison Killing is a British architect and urban designer. In 2010, she founded a studio for design and research in the field of architecture named

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. She is a

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as well.

Early life

She was born in Newcastle upon Tyne, England and currently lives in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. She studied

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and

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Pulitzer Prize

Killing was part of the team that produced a series of innovative articles that used

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, 3D architectural models, and in-person interviews to expose China’s vast infrastructure for detaining hundreds of thousands of Muslims in its

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region and won the 2021

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References

External links

Killing Architects (Official website)
Year of birth missing (living people) Living people 21st-century British architects Alumni of King's College, Cambridge Alumni of Oxford Brookes University Architects from Northumberland British women architects English expatriates in the Netherlands Architects from Newcastle upon Tyne Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting winners {{UK-bio-stub