Alison Killing

Alison Killing is a Pulitzer Prize winning journalist and licensed architect specialising in open source and visual investigations.

Alison Killing is a Pulitzer Prize winning journalist and licensed architect specialising in open source and visual investigations. She worked in architecture and urban planning practices in London and Rotterdam for several years, before starting her own studio, Killing Architects. Since then she has produced and curated an exhibition on death and architecture called Death in Venice, carried out research into the reconstruction in Haiti following the 2010 earthquake and developed Migration Trail, a mapped data visualisation about migration to Europe.

In 2021 she was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting, together with Megha Rajagopalan and Christo Buschek for a series of articles exposing the network of detention camps in Xinjiang, China. This work used satellite imagery and architectural expertise, as well as interviews with two dozen former detainees, to identify and investigate this vast new infrastructure.