How Esther Charlesworth adds priceless value to architecture through Architects Without Frontiers (AWF)
Share Esther Charlesworth, founder of humanitarian organisation Architects Without Frontiers (AWF) and a professor at RMIT University’s school of architecture and urban design, is the youngest child in a family of seven. She's got quite a story of her own. But over a 90-minute meal in which she travels from 1980s Melbourne to Harvard Uni, through the troubled Balkans and Africa, then back to a women's refuge in Melbourne's Preston, it becomes apparent that although she's making her own mark on the world, she's doing so in the shadow of her siblings. Charlesworth, and her twin sister, are th...