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Huge congratulations to Robert Beeny from MArch DS16 on winning the RIBA President’s Silver Medal 2020!

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The School of Architecture + Cities is delighted to announce that Robert Beeny, MArch student from Design Studio 16 won this year’s RIBA President’s Silver Medal for his project Devil’s Valley Geothermal Co-operative.

This project is situated in an area of Tuscany, Italy known as the Devil’s Valley, which had become known for its production of renewable geothermal energy over the past century. To protect the livelihood of local communities relying on that energy source, Robert proposed a new rural self-build development, powered by a geothermal well, with a pipeline and manufacturing spaces cascading down the valley landscape.

Read more about the project here.

Huge congratulations to Robert and his tutors Anthony Boulanger, Stuart Piercy and Callum Perry from DS16 on this amazing achievement!

Featured Image: The Geothermal Co-operative by Robert Beeny via RIBA

RIBA Student Support Fund – Autumn 2020 Application Cycle | Deadline: Friday, November 27 at 17:00 GMT

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The RIBA Student Support Fund – Autumn 2020 Application Cycle is now open. The full details including guidance notes and application form can be found on the RIBA website here.

The purpose of the RIBA Student Support Fund is to alleviate financial hardship for students of architecture enrolled in RIBA Part 1 and 2 courses in the UK. Applications are welcomed from students who have encountered recent financial barriers during their studies and would benefit from assistance to successfully complete the academic year. Students may apply for a maximum bursary of £3,000 in this application cycle.

The deadline to apply is 5pm on Friday 27 November 2020.

RIBA Student Support Fund for Spring/Summer 2020_Deadline: Monday, May 11 at 5pm

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The RIBA Student Support Fund is now open for applications for Spring/Summer 2020. The Fund welcomes applications from students of architecture enrolled in RIBA Part 1 and 2 courses in the UK who are experiencing financial hardship, and would benefit from financial support.

Students can apply for a maximum of £3,000.

The full details and application form can be found on our website here

The deadline for receipt of applications is 5pm Monday 11 May 2020.

RIBA Part 1 and Part 2 Bursaries _ Deadline: May 15, 2020, 5pm

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The aim of the RIBA Part 1 and Part 2 Bursaries is to provide long-term financial support to architecture students who demonstrate talent and commitment to their studies who might struggle to cover the costs of living and course-related expenditure. The schemes have been made possible by generous donations to the RIBA from the Walter Parker Trust, the Rosenberg Memorial Fund and the Ayyub Malik Trust; as well as monies raised through the RIBA Education Fund.

RIBA website

Applications for the 2020 RIBA Part 1 and Part 2 Bursaries are now open. 

RIBA Part 1 Bursary

To be eligible to apply for a RIBA Part 1 Bursary, students must currently be enrolled in the first year of a RIBA Part 1 course in the UK. Recipients of these bursaries will receive a maximum of £6,000 distributed in £1,000 termly instalments throughout the second and third years of study.

RIBA Part 2 Bursary

To be eligible to apply for a RIBA Part 2 Bursary, applicants must be in the process of applying for a RIBA Part 2 course in the UK beginning in September 2020. Applicants do not need to have their place confirmed at the time of application, but if successful, proof of enrolment will be required before the bursary payment is made.  Recipients of these bursaries will receive a maximum of £6,000 distributed in £1,000 termly instalments throughout the two-year course.

The application deadline for both bursary schemes is 5pm Friday 15 May 2020.

For the full details on the application process and to download the application form and guidance notes, please visit the website here. 

Call for entries: RIBAJ Eye Line 2020 Competition_Deadline: Monday, June 8, 23:59

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KEY DATES

Deadline: Monday 8 June 2020, 23:59.

Judging: end June.

Winners and commendations announced: August issue of RIBAJ and online.

Exhibition opens: August/September.

Correspondence: eyeline.ribaj@riba.org

It’s back!  The 2020 edition of Eye Line, our international free-to-enter competition for drawing and rendering skills, is now open for entries. As ever we ask for images in two categories – student and practitioner – that brilliantly communicate architecture, in any medium or combination of media. It’s the pure art of architecture we’re interested in: ‘New Imagined Worlds’ is the subtitle this year.

We are especially pleased this eighth year of Eye Line to be partnering with Delta Light, the international architectural lighting company. Themselves committed to the art of architectural illustration, they are kindly hosting our judging event.

We are looking for images of all kinds, from hand-drawn concept sketch to technically proficient layered render.  For us, ‘drawing’ includes any method by which the power of an architectural idea is communicated. This includes depictions of existing buildings as well as works of the imagination.

Practitioners and students enter in different categories:

•    Student category – images made by those in architectural education or who are submitting images made before final qualification.

•    Practitioner category:  images made by those fully qualified and working in practice, whether for real-life projects or to explore ideas and experiences.

We will exhibit winners and commendations at the RIBA following a winners’ party there, and will publish them in print and online. And our colleagues at the RIBA’s Drawings and Archives Collection, based in the Victoria and Albert Museum, will inspect our winners for potential inclusion in the collections.

Last year’s practitioner winner was Ed Crooks for his series of pen-and ink fantasias on Lutyens’ Castle Drogo commissioned by the National Trust: student winner was Theo Jones from the Bartlett with his series ‘Unfolding Julian Assange’s Home of Diplomatic Containment’ made in Photoshop and Illustrator. Commendations in all media ranged from sparse elegant line drawings via watercolour on cardboard.

Every year we are gratified by the originality, wit and talent represented in Eye Line: a truly international, free-to-enter award conducted online.  Practitioners and students – show us your best drawings!

Hugh Pearman, The RIBA Journal

For more details and how to apply please go to: https://www.ribaj.com/culture/enter-eye-line

Featured image: RIBAJ

The School of Architecture + Cities celebrates great success at the RIBA President’s Awards 2019

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Both MArch students and the SA+C staff excelled in RIBA President’s Medal Awards 2019 / RIBA President’s Awards for Research 2019 earlier this week.

Ruth Pearn won a Dissertation Medal  for her MArch dissertation ‘Age Through the Terrace: The Evolving Impact of Age on Social and Spatial Relations in the Home’ (Tutored by Prof. Harry Charrington).

DS18 celebrated a double-win by their former MArch students:

Rachel Wakelin was the winner of the Serjeant Award for Excellence in Architectural Drawing at Part 2, for her MArch design project project ‘Avian Air – A Tropospheric Bird Sanctuary’

and

Fiona Grieve was given a Commendation in the Dissertation Medal category, for her MArch dissertation ‘The Reception of Refugees in the UK.’ (Tutored by Dr. Davide Deriu).

DS22 celebrated their former MArch student Sun Yen Yee, who won the SOM Foundation Fellowship (UK Award) at Part 2, for his MArch design project ‘SEED of Havana: Dissolving Condensers.’

Prof Kester Rattenbury (DS15 tutor) was shortlisted for the RIBA President’s Award for Research, in History and Theory category for her project ‘The Wessex Project: Thomas Hardy Architect.’  

Tumpa Fellows (PhD researcher within the Experimental Practices research team and BSc Architectural Technology tutor) received a commendation for the Annual Theme: Building in Quality category in RIBA President’s Award for Research, for her project ‘Improvised architectural responses to the changing climate; making, sharing and communicating design processes.’

CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL THE WINNERS!

Thomas McLucas’ last year’s project for DS2.6 selected for exhibition at the RIBA Architecture Gallery

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The work of Thomas McLucas, Architecture BA Honours student, was selected from entries drawn across the UK for the exhibition ‘INDUSTRIALISED’ at the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA).

University of Westminster | News

The RIBA exhibition titled ‘INDUSTRIALISED’ shows drawings by over 40 students from 20 schools of architecture across the UK. It parallels another exhibition in the Architecture Gallery called ‘Beyond Bauhaus’, both exhibitions respond to the centenary of the opening of the historic Bauhaus school. 

The Bauhaus school was established under the Weimar Republic in 1919 and closed in 1933 under the Nazis. The school’s teaching program cohered around a novel concept of industrial design, which for them meant the production of a universal, totally integrated environment.

This year, the BA Architecture Studio DS2/6 set out to work in a truly post-industrial environment in a project led by Dr Victoria Watson, Senior Lecturer at the University. The project was called CAR PARK to COSMOS, it asked students to remodel a car park in Stevenage for a hypothetical organisation, ‘The International Institute of Cosmism (IIC)’, who plan to develop the car park as a place of post-industrial work, specifically to make Cosmist movies. Students were encouraged to think like Russian Cosmists and to invent their own utopias, just like architects of the Bauhaus would have done. 

Thomas McLucas’ approach was heavily inspired by the monumentalism of the Soviet Union, as can be seen, for example, in the Shukov tower or Fernsehturm in Berlin, which the students visited on their field trip. 

Speaking about his work, Thomas said: “It is highly exciting to be exhibited at the RIBA as part of the Bauhaus centenary celebrations. It is important to reflect on our industrial past as we are in a new technological revolution, one where what we are producing is less material but no less impactful.

“My project acts as a critique of the post-industrial nature of mass media, aiming to highlight this by pulling the production and transmission into one transparent structure. Transparent, in that activity can be seen through the meshwork form, and that the architecture clearly expresses what it does.”

Talking about his achievement, Dr Watson said: “Thomas McLucas’s project is remarkable for the way it poses questions about the nature of post-industrial work and of the new kinds of media technologies that effect our environment, even though we cannot necessarily see them.”

The exhibition will run until 30 November at the RIBA, 66 Portland Place.

University of Westminster | News

Featured image: ©Thomas McLucas

Prof Kester Rattenbury and Tumpa Fellows from School of Architecture + Cities shortlisted for the RIBA President’s Awards for Research

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Congratulations to Prof Kester Rattenbury (DS15 tutor) and Tumpa Fellows (PhD researcher within the Experimental Practices research team and BSc Architectural Technology tutor) who have been shortlisted for this year’s RIBA President’s Award for Research, in History and Theory, and Annual Theme: Building in Quality categories, respectively.

The President’s Awards for Research celebrate the best research in the fields of architecture and the built environment and have again attracted interest from around the globe, with entries from China to Peru. The scope of entries continues to illustrate a strong focus on people and community over buildings, featuring parallel themes such as social injustice and climate change.

RIBA website

Professor Kester Rattenbury was shortlisted for her project “The Wessex Project: Thomas Hardy Architect.”

For more information on her project please visit here.

Wessex ‘through the camera’s eye’, Hermann Lea and Lea’s camera. ©Hermann Lea, Toucan Press

Tumpa Fellows was shortlisted for her project “Improvised architectural responses to the changing climate; making, sharing and communicating design processes.”

For more information on her project please visit here.

The Rajapur Community Building for Women’s Literacy and Healthcare – The Rajapur Centre completed and being used by the community. ©Tumpa Fellows

The winning papers and medallist will be announced at this year’s President’s Medals ceremony at the RIBA, in London, on the 3 December 2019.

Student reminder – RIBA Council elections closing Tuesday 23rd of July at 5pm

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Voting in the 2019 Council elections is closing on Tuesday 23 July at 5pm, and RIBA is keen to encourage as many members as possible, particularly students, to make use of their votes.

Candidates statements and more information can be found on www.architecture.com/elections or through the direct voting link www.ersvotes.com/riba2019.

Voting emails containing nominal links and passcodes have been dispatched on behalf of RIBA by the Electoral Reform Services, from onlinevoting@electoralreform.co.uk.

Conference: “Spiritual, Sacred, Secular: the architecture of faith in modern Britain” _ Thursday, June 20, 9:00 – Friday, June 21, 19:00,

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When: From Thursday 20th of June, 9:00 to Friday, 21st of June, 19:00

Where: School of Architecture + Cities, University of Westminster, 35 Marylebone Road, NW1 5LS

The University of Westminster in partnership with the Royal Institute of British Architects is hosting a groundbreaking two-day conference to explore the boundaries between the sacred, spiritual and secular in modern British architecture. By bringing together some of the most significant and interesting design practices in the country today, the event will explore contemporary approaches to the design, use, stewardship and conservation of buildings across diverse faiths, and will feature presentations from leading architects, academics, heritage professionals, commissioners and clients.

The conference will include panel discussions and presentations, with contributions from key figures including Niall McLaughlin; John McAslan and Partners; Peter Clegg; Julia Barfield; Roz Barr, Patrick Lynch, Biba Dow, Andy Groarke and Waugh Thistleton.

The conference will conclude with two days of architectural tours in collaboration with the Twentieth Century Society which will look at contemporary approaches to faith buildings. You can book the 22nd and 23rd June tours here. The first day, led by the architectural writer Kenneth Powell, will explore recent examples of repurposing, restoration and renewal of churches in London. The second day will look at new faith architecture in and around the capital.

For full programme and to book tickets please visit here.