Month: December 2022

Archisource Drawing of the Year 2022 Competition | Deadline, January 31, 2023 (23.59 GMT)

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Archisource invites students, graduates and alumni to submit their drawings into our free to enter, Drawing of the Year 2022 competition.

The competition has £30,000 worth of prizes to be won, significant international publication and all entries will receive Affinity V2 Universal Licence for free which includes all of Affinity’s creative apps!

In 2021, School of Architecture + Cities student Jake Cripwell was awarded Highly Commended Award in the Environmental category at the Drawing of the Year competition for his drawing titled ‘The Creeping Seaweed Gardens, Fish’s-Eye View’.

Archisource is an architecture and design community of 350,000 with a mission to support and inspire creative builders and thinkers; our fourth annual competition celebrates those that have truly excelled in creating standout works.

COMPETITION INFORMATION:

Enter here: archisource.org 

Host: instagram.com/archisource 

Entry closes 31st January 2023 (23.59 GMT)

The Drawing of the Year 2022 by Archisource is the annual, international, free to enter and open to all drawing competition celebrating the most accomplished imagery and extensive variety of drawings created around the world. The competition has £30,000 worth of prizes with significant international publication, five award categories and numerous commendation awards to be won. This year ALL entries will receive Affinity V2 Universal Licence for FREE!

The competition showcases the diverse varieties, types, styles and functions of imagery created each year. Submissions are open to all disciplines and can be created in any medium or style, however they must convey: architecture, design or the built environment. 

This year’s competition is in partnership with Affinity, the award-winning graphic design, image editing and page layout software used by architects around the world. Affinity is providing all entries with a free Affinity V2 Universal Licence worth £144.99 GBP which includes Affinity Designer 2, Affinity Photo 2 and Affinity Publisher 2 for Mac, iPad and Windows PC.

The widely recognised aspirational awards series celebrates works across the following award categories: the Drawing of the Year Award, Architectural Award in partnership with Bentley’s MicroStation, Environmental Award, Narrative Award and the Visualisation Award. 

Archisource welcomes creatives from all backgrounds and drawings of all types. Whether it be hand-drawn or painted, rendered or collaged, detailed linework or diagrammatic – the judging panel wants to see your creations. Archisource truly believes in the power of drawings and the Drawing of the Year recognises, celebrates and gives a platform to the very best talents across the world.

The mission and purpose of Archisource is to support and unite the creative community at all skill levels, and Archisource is very proud to bring you the biggest and most inclusive competition of its kind. This is a great opportunity to win an incredible array of prizes and also receive fantastic awareness and international exposure of your standout works to the wider architecture and design industries.

Congratulations to Prof Kester Rattenbury on receiving the 2022 RIBA Annie Spink Award

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On Monday, December 6, Professor Kester Rattenbury received the biannual 2022 RIBA Annie Spink Award at the RIBA President’s Medals Awards ceremony.

“The prestigious biennial prize is awarded to an individual who has made a significant contribution to the advancement of architectural education, in a school of architecture anywhere in the world that offers courses validated by the RIBA. 

Rattenbury is an architectural teacher, critic, writer and academic, who has taught design studio for 30 years: first at the University of Greenwich; then since 2000 at the University of Westminster in London. Here she ran the experimental studio DS15 with Sean Griffiths and also devised and spearheaded the research group EXP (Experimental Practice) with its leading projects the Supercrit series and the Archigram Archival Project – which was rated ‘Outstanding’ by the Arts and Humanities Research Council. She was made FRIBA in 2005 and Professor at Westminster in 2014. ”

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Read more here.

Featured image: Kester Rattenbury by Clare Banstead (source: RIBA website)

Norman Foster Foundation: 2023 NFF Energy Workshop, supported by the GS Energy Corporation | Deadline for applications: Sunday, December 18 by 24:00 (CEST)

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The 2023 Energy Workshop will take place in Madrid, Spain, from 20-24 February 2023 and will gather a team of ten granted scholars drawn from diverse backgrounds to explore new opportunities that combine natural processes with emerging technologies.

Each grant will cover all transportation, accommodation and incurred costs related to the Workshop in Madrid. Students will be invited to engage with Norman Foster and an interdisciplinary Academic Body composed by researchers, industry practitioners and academicians.

For more information please find attached the Open Call Form: 

NFF-2023-EEnergy-Workshop-Open-Call-ApplicationDownload

MArch DS18 student, Georgios Malliaropoulos, reports on his experience from 2022 Sustainability Workshop by the Norman Foster Foundation

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The 2022 Sustainability Workshop organised by Norman Foster Foundation took place in Madrid, Spain, between 10th and 14th of October.

Georgios spoke about his experience to University of Westminster’s News:

“The Workshop aimed to explore the concept of sustainability at the intersection of natural and artificial. During the week-long programme, we aimed to generate projects and prototypes that demonstrated the transformative potential of combining different types of intelligence, namely ecological, human, and technological.”

To read more, please go here.  

Technical Studies Lecture Series: Michael Jones, Foster and Partners “Building Bloomberg” | Thursday, December 8 at 18:00 (GMT), M416 + Online

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When: Thursday, 8th of December, 6pm (GMT)

Where: M416, University of Westminster, 35 Marylebone Road, NW1 5LS + Online (see tumblr page below for link)

Michael Jones is a deputy head of studio at Foster + Partners. Alongside Senior Executive Partner Stefan Behling, he oversees almost 100 architects working on a wide range of international projects. He was awarded a bachelor degree in architecture in 1986 and joined the practice in the same year as an architectural assistant.  In 1988, he continued his studies at the Royal College of Art, gaining his master’s degree in architecture in 1990. He subsequently returned to Foster + Partners, where he qualified as an architect in 1994. 

He initially worked on a number of education buildings, starting with the Deuxième Lycée de Fréjus in the South of France, followed by the Law Faculty for the University of Cambridge. Thereafter, he focused on working with historic and listed buildings, initially as the project architect of the new International Rail Terminal for London at St Pancras Station, then as project director on the detail design and procurement for the Great Court at the British Museum. In 2000, he began work on the large-scale masterplan and expansion of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. During this time, he was leading the design of the UK Supreme Court in Westminster, the new Winspear Opera House in Dallas and a major a new Faculty Building for Imperial College London. 

Most recently he has been responsible for the new European headquarters for Bloomberg in the City of London and the ongoing renovation and expansion of the Imperial War Museum in London, the first phase of which was completed to coincide with the centenary of the First World War in 2014. 

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For details contact: Will McLean – w.f.mclean@wmin.ac.uk