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RIBA President’s Awards for Research 2017 News

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RIBA President’s Awards for Research 2018

12 May 2017

2017 RIBA President’s Awards for Research

Honoursing architecture’s brightest new stars

RIBA 2017 President’s Awards for Research Update

RIBA opens 2017 President’s Awards for Research with special housing category

The Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) is calling for entries from students, academics and practitioners to the 2017 RIBA President’s Awards for Research.

The awards celebrate the best research in architecture and the built environment and are presented annually in three categories, with an additional special category which for 2017 is ‘housing’.

The four categories are:

• Cities and Communities
• Design and Technical
• History and Theory
• Housing

The deadline for entry is 31 May 2017 at midnight (GMT).

One winner will be selected per category; the best overall winner will be presented with the prestigious RIBA President’s Medal for Research in a special ceremony at the RIBA in December.

For more information:
RIBA President’s Awards for Research in 2017

RIBA Head of Research and Innovation Dr Kat Martindale said:
“The President’s Awards for Research brings together the best research from across the built environment sector, and last year we saw greater collaboration between students, academics and practitioners in the process. This year, in addition to the constant categories we’re delighted to welcome responses from innovative researchers to this year’s annual theme: housing.”

The 2017 judges are:

• Chair: Peter Clegg, Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios
• Zohra Chiheb, Levitt Bernstein
• Dr Elizabeth Darling, Oxford Brookes University
• Hattie Hartman, Architects Journal
• Dr Matthew Jones, University of West England and Coombs Jones Architects
• Dr Kerstin Sailer, Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London
• Professor Chris Tweed, Cardiff University

RIBA President’s Awards for Research 2016

RIBA President’s Awards for Research 2016 information from Royal Institute of British Architects

RIBA President’s Medal for Research 2016 Winners

The four papers that won:

Winner of the 2016 President’s Medal for Research and winner of the category ‘History and Theory’

Asmara – Africa’s Modernist City: UNESCO World Heritage Nomination
Edward Denison, The Bartlett School of Architecture, UK
Medhanie Teklemariam and Dawit Abraha, Asmara Heritage Project, Eritrea

Winner of the Annual Theme – ‘Learning from Projects’ and highly commended

Make Public: Performing Public Housing in Ernö Goldfinger’s Balfron Tower
David Roberts, Bartlett School of Architecture, UK

Winner of the category ‘Cities and Community’

The Common Camp: Temporary Settlements as a Spatio-political Instrument in Israel-Palestine
Dr Irit Katz, University of Cambridge, UK

Winner of the category ‘Design and Technical’

Super Tall Timber: Design Research for the Next Generation of Natural Structure
Dr Michael Ramage and Dr Rob Foster, University of Cambridge, UK
Simon Smith, Smith and Wallwork, UK
Kevin Flanagan & Ron Bakker, PLP / Architecture, UK

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23 Sep 2016

RIBA President’s Awards for Research 2016 Shortlist

RIBA reveals shortlist for President’s Awards for Research

The annual awards celebrate the best research in the fields of architecture and the built environment. This year, a record-breaking 75 submissions were received from 14 countries, including 22 entries from architecture practices.

Cities and Community

• The Common Camp: Temporary Settlements as a Spatio-political Instrument in Israel-Palestine

Kibbutz Givat Brenner 1935 by Kluger Zoltan copyright The Israeli National Photo Collection

• Palestine Regeneration Team (PART)

new urban strategy

• Living Well with Dementia at Home: Understanding the Role of the Home Environment

Design and Technical

• Supertall Timber: Design Research for the Next Generation of Natural Structure

Physical Testing (c) Michael Ramage

• UK’s First Amphibious House. Can-float Amphibious Building

images © Baca Architects

History and Theory

• Asmara – Africa’s Modernist City: UNESCO World Heritage Nomination

Ministry of health / Edward Denison

• The Texture of Politics: London’s Anarchists Clubs 1882-1914

Autonomie Club – The Graphic – 1894 – pt 4 (c) The British Library

• ‘Spotless Lilies and Foul Smelling Weeds’: Architecture and Moral Cleanliness in Victorian Magdelen Convents

KJ Spotless Lilies Figure 6 (c) Generalate of the Poor Servants of the Mother of God