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Key Building in Piccadilly, West End, London, England, UK
30 + 28 Apr 2018
Royal Academy of Arts Elections in 2018
The Royal Academy of Arts announces election of a new Royal Academician, two Honorary Royal Academicians, a new Treasurer and new Professor for The Royal Academy Schools
The Royal Academy of Arts has elected artist collaboration Jane and Louise Wilson as a new Royal Academician in the category of Printmaking, following a recent General Assembly.
In addition, Wim Wenders and Laurie Anderson have been elected as Honorary Royal Academicians and Marina Warner has been elected as a new Honorary Fellow.
Architect Chris Wilkinson has been appointed as the new Treasurer of the Royal Academy, replacing Chris Orr RA.
Architect Chris Wilkinson:
photograph : Rob Greig
Alison Wilding has been appointed as the new Eranda Professor of Drawing at the Royal Academy Schools, replacing David Remfry RA.
Treasurer of the Royal Academy
Chris Wilkinson RA
Chris Wilkinson will replace Chris Orr RA in his post as Treasurer on 1 September 2018. Wilkinson set up Chris Wilkinson Architects in 1983, formed a partnership with Jim Eyre in 1987 and established Wilkinson Eyre Architects in 1999 in order to explore new directions in architecture. Wilkinson’s contribution to architecture has been recognised by the award of an OBE in the Millennium Honours List, election to the Royal Academy of Arts in 2006, and an Honorary Fellowship of the American Institute of Architecture in 2007.
WilkinsonEyre has had back to back success for both the RIBA Stirling Prize for Magna (2001), UK and the Gateshead Milliennium Bridge (2002), UK; the RIBA Lubetkin Prize for the Guangzhou International Finance Centre (2012), China, and for the Cooled Conservatories at Gardens by the Bay (2003), Singapore.
Current projects include the restoration of Battersea Power Station, the re-use of three Grade II-listed gasholders in King’s Cross to provide 145 apartments, a landmark tower overlooking Sydney Harbour, a new tower in the heart of the City of London and the continuing expansion of Dyson’s Research and Development Headquarters. Wilkinson is the author of Supersheds, The Sketchbooks of Chris Wilkinson and co-author of Bridging Art & Science, Exploring Boundaries, Techtonics and Wilkinson Eyre Architects/Works. At the Royal Academy, Chris Wilkinson has chaired the Client Committee since 2009 which has overseen the redevelopment of 6 Burlington Gardens.
He was responsible for hanging the Architecture Room within the Summer Exhibition in 2012 with Eva Jiricna RA and presented the sculpture Landscape to Portrait in the Annenberg Courtyard in the same year designed with Diana and Dominic Wilkinson.
The Treasurer of the Royal Academy is elected by ballot for a three-year term, from RAs who have served a minimum of five years. The Treasurer acts as the formal representative of the Academicians on all matters concerning finance.
21 May 2017
RA Summer Exhibition 2017
The Royal Academy of Arts’ 249th Summer Exhibition
Location: Main Galleries, Burlington House
The Royal Academy’s 249th Summer Exhibition will be co-ordinated by Eileen Cooper RA.
Hanging Committee: Ann Christopher, Gus Cummins, Bill Jacklin, Fiona Rae, Rebecca Salter and Yinka Shonibare.
Architecture Gallery Curator: Farshid Moussavi RA.
Opening Times:
13 June – 20 August 2017
10am – 6pm, Fridays until 10pm
Royal Academy of Arts Summer Exhibition, London
17 Mar 2017
Royal Academy of Arts News – David Adjaye Royal Academician
Royal Academy of Arts announces election of David Adjaye and Gilbert & George as new Royal Academicians
The Royal Academy of Arts has elected the internationally renowned architect Sir David Adjaye and artist Gilbert & George as new Royal Academicians following a recent General Assembly.
Christopher Le Brun, President of the Royal Academy, said “David Adjaye joins us at a time when the Royal Academy architects currently comprise a more distinguished group than at any time in its long history. I’m delighted to welcome Gilbert & George to the Royal Academy; the election of two people as one artist member is the first of its kind in the history of the Academy.”
Sir David Adjaye OBE (born Tanzania, 1966)
photograph © Ed Reeve
Sir David Adjaye is recognised as a leading architect of his generation. Born in Tanzania to Ghanaian parents, his broadly ranging influences, ingenious use of materials and sculptural ability have established him as an architect with an artist’s sensibility and vision. He founded Adjaye Associates in 2000, and immediately won several prestigious commissions including the Nobel Peace Centre in Oslo (2005) and the Idea Stores in London (2005), which were credited with pioneering a new approach to the provision of information services. His largest project to date, the $540 million Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, opened on the National Mall in Washington DC in Autumn of 2016 and was named Cultural Event of the Year by the New York Times.
photograph courtesy of Doug Aitken Workshop and 303 Gallery, NY
Adjaye Associates now has offices in London, New York and Accra with projects in the US, UK, Europe, Africa, Asia and the Middle East. These include the Moscow School of Management SKOLKOVO (2010), the Sugar Hill mixed-use social housing scheme in Harlem, New York (2015); the Aishti Foundation retail and art complex in Beirut (2015); and two neighbourhood libraries in Washington DC (2012). Prominent ongoing projects include a new home for the Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, a major neighbourhood masterplan in San Francisco, and One Berkeley, a £600 million redevelopment project in London’s prestigious Piccadilly area.
David Adjaye:
photo courtesy of Doug Aitken Workshop and 303 Gallery, NY
Adjaye frequently collaborates with contemporary artists on art and installation projects. Examples include The Upper Room, with thirteen paintings by Chris Ofili (2002), Within Reach, and the Thyssen-Bornemisza Art for the 21st Century Pavilion designed to show a work by Olafur Eliasson, Your Black Horizon, at the 2005 Venice Biennale. Adjaye worked with curator Okwui Enwezor on the design of the 56th Venice Art Biennale (2015). He was awarded an OBE for services to architecture in 2007, received the Design Miami/ Artist of the Year title in 2011, the Wall Street Journal Innovator Award in 2013 and the 2016 Panerai London Design Medal, awarded by the London Design Festival. In 2017, Adjaye received a knighthood for services to architecture in the Queen’s New Year’s Honours list.
A recent building design by David Adjaye on e-architect:
National Museum of African American History & Culture, Washington DC, USA
Design: Freelon Adjaye Bond / SmithGroup
image courtesy of architects
National Museum of African American History and Culture Building
David Adjaye : ‘Urban Africa’
photograph : David Adjaye
David Adjaye Exhibition in London at the Design Museum
About the Royal Academy of Arts
The Royal Academy of Arts was founded by King George III in 1768. It has a unique position in being an independent, privately funded institution led by eminent artists and architects whose purpose is to be a clear, strong voice for art and artists. Its public programme promotes the creation, enjoyment and appreciation of the visual arts through exhibitions, education and debate.
The Royal Academy of Arts is governed by 80 Royal Academicians who are all practising artists or architects. On reaching the age of 75 they become Senior Academicians thus initiating vacancies for new Members. Elections are held at regular meetings of the General Assembly, when new Members are voted in by existing RAs.
The RA is undergoing a transformative redevelopment which will be completed in time for its 250th anniversary in 2018. Led by the internationally-acclaimed architect Sir David Chipperfield RA and supported by the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF), the plans will link Burlington House on Piccadilly and Burlington Gardens for the first time, uniting and revitalising the two-acre site. The redevelopment will also reveal the elements that make the RA unique, sharing with the public the historic treasures in its Collection, the work of its Academicians and the RA Schools, alongside its world-class exhibitions programme. For more information on the RA visit www.royalacademy.org.uk/ra250#video
Major Buildings by Adjaye/Associates
Kvadrat London Showroom, London, UK
Design: David Adjaye and Peter Saville
photo from Adjaye / Associates
Kvadrat London Showroom
Idea Store Chrisp St, Poplar, east London, UK
photo © Nick Weall
Idea Store Chrisp St
Idea Store Whitechapel, east London, UK
photo © Nick Weall
Idea Store Whitechapel
Rivington Place, London, UK
photo © Nick Weall
Rivington Place
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13 Aug 2013
Burlington House Courtyard Development
Design: Rogers Stirk Harbour and Partners
The Royal Academy of Arts unveils a three storey house designed by Rogers Stirk Harbour and Partners in the Courtyard at Burlington House
Richard Rogers:
© Andrew Zuckerman
Homeshell – Royal Academy of Arts, London
Royal Academy of Arts Architecture Exhibition
Royal Academy of Arts Exhibition : Andrea Palladio
18 Jun + 24 Apr 2012
Royal Academy Summer Show 2012
Summer Exhibition Curators
Eva Jiricna and Chris Wilkinson are to curate the architecture gallery of Royal Academy’s Summer Exhibition for 2012.
Royal Academy Summer Exhibition – architectural installation
Design: Chris Wilkinson, Wilkinson Eyre Architects
image : Luke Hayes
The 244th annual Summer Exhibition at the Royal Academy of Arts features a site specific architectural installation designed by architect and artist Chris Wilkinson RA, Director at Wilkinson Eyre Architects.
10 Jun 2008
Royal Academy of Arts London
David Chipperfield Architects appointed by Royal Academy of Arts for 6 Burlington Gardens, London
David Chipperfield Architects have been appointed to redevelop and refurbish the Royal Academy of Arts’ building at 6 Burlington Gardens, one of the most significant High Victorian buildings in central London.
Royal Academy of Arts North Elevation : David Chipperfield Architects
Designed by Sir James Pennethorne for the University of London in the 1860s, 6 Burlington Gardens has been part of the Royal Academy estate since 2000 and currently functions largely as a temporary venue. The building is situated to the rear of the Royal Academy’s Burlington House headquarters on Piccadilly.
The project will provide the Royal Academy with new exhibition space for contemporary art shows, education facilities including a new 250 seat auditorium, shops, and a restaurant, and also allow all Royal Academy staff to be accommodated on site for the first time.
This is not the first time David Chipperfield Architects have made design proposals for the building, having previously done so during its occupation by the Museum of Mankind in the 1980s.
David Chipperfield Architects have already begun a feasibility study for the project, which will be completed in September. The project is scheduled to complete in 2012.
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Royal Academy of Arts, London: Burlington House, Piccadilly
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Nearest tube stations: Piccadilly Circus or Green Park
Royal Academy of Arts redevelopment designers : David Chipperfield Architects
Royal Academy Sackler Galleries architects : Foster Associates
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