2019 RIBA Wren Insurance Association Scholarships – DEADLINE EXTENDED to Monday, June 10, 9am

Posted on June 6, 2019 by Mirna Pedalo

To be eligible to apply for the RIBA Wren Insurance Association Scholarships, applicants must:

have graduated from a RIBA Part 1 professional qualification course in Architecture in a higher education institution in the UK, and
at the time of application, be enrolled in a RIBA Part 2 professional qualification course in Architecture in a higher education institution in the UK and be starting the final year in September 2019

There are five Wren scholarships worth £6,000 each available in the 2019 application cycle.

For more details about this scholarship and to download an application form, please visit here.

2019 RIBA Wren Insurance Association Scholarships and the RIBA AHR Stephen Williams Scholarship_Deadline: 5pm Friday 7 June 2019

Posted on May 21, 2019 by Mirna Pedalo

The Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) is now calling for applications for the 2019 RIBA Wren Insurance Association Scholarships and the RIBA AHR Stephen Williams Scholarship.

To be eligible to apply for the RIBA Wren Insurance Association Scholarships, applicants must:

have graduated from a RIBA Part 1 professional qualification course in Architecture in a higher education institution in the UK, and
at the time of application, be enrolled in a RIBA Part 2 professional qualification course in Architecture in a higher education institution in the UK and be starting the final year in September 2019

There are five Wren scholarships worth £6,000 each available in the 2019 application cycle. For more details about these scholarships and to download an application form, please visit here.

To be eligible to apply for the RIBA AHR Stephen Williams Scholarship, applicants must:

have graduated from a Part 1 programme validated by the RIBA in the UK, and
at the time of application, be enrolled in, or have been granted a placement offer for, an RIBA-validated Part 2 professional qualification in the UK or abroad starting in September 2019, or
be enrolled, or have been granted a placement offer, in a Masters course (non-RIBA Part 2) related to architecture, at a university department that also offers courses validated by the RIBA in the UK or abroad starting in September 2019

There is one AHR scholarship worth £6,000 available in the 2019 application cycle. For more details about this scholarship and to download an application form, please visit here.

The application deadline for both scholarships is 5pm Friday 7 June 2019.

Featured image: Landscape Imaginal by Farid Abdulla, 2018 RIBA AHR Stephen Williams Scholar

Call for entries: Eye Line 2019_Deadline: Monday, 10th of June

Posted on April 30, 2019 by Mirna Pedalo

It’s Eye Line time! RIBAJ’s free-entry annual award for celebrating excellence in architectural drawing.

This international award is a proven opportunity for exposure and career advancement – for both practitioners and students.

Winners and commendations will be exhibited at the RIBA for a month and will be published in The RIBA Journal and online at RIBAJ.com. Our colleagues at the RIBA’s world famous Drawings and Archives Collections (DAC), based in the V&A Museum, will study the winners for potential inclusion in the collections. You will also be invited to the winners’ event at the RIBA attended by leading architects.

Judges are Patty Hopkins, founding partner of Hopkins Architects; Wen Quek, partner, Cullinan Studio; Anne Desmet RA, artist; Tszwai So of Spheron Architects, last year’s winner; Neil Spiller, architect, academic and editor of AD magazine; and Hugh Pearman, editor of the RIBA Journal.

There is no distinction between ‘hand drawing’ and computer rendering skills but you can find out all the entry details in the RIBA Journal article.

Key dates

Deadline: Monday 10 June, 23:59

Judging: end June.

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

Exhibition opening: August.

Correspondence: eyeline.ribaj@riba.org

Featured image: last year’s winner Tszwai So (Spheron Architects, SA+C DS2.6 tutor)

RIBA Part 1 and Part 2 Bursaries_Deadline: 12pm Friday, April 19, 2019

Posted on March 19, 2019 by Mirna Pedalo

The Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) is now open for applications for the 2019 RIBA Part 1 Bursary and RIBA Part 2 Bursary.

Full details of the eligibility criteria and application process can be found here.

RIBA Part 1 Bursary

To be eligible to apply for a RIBA Part 1 Bursary, students must be enrolled in the first year of an 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. Successful part-time applicants will receive the same maximum amount in payments proportionate to the length of studies. The deadline for receipt of applications is 12pm on Friday 19 April 2019.

RIBA Part 2 Bursary

To be eligible to apply for a RIBA Part 2 Bursary, students must be in the process of applying for an RIBA Part 2 course in the UK beginning in September 2019. Proof of enrolment will be required before the bursary is paid to successful applicants.

Recipients of these bursaries will receive a maximum of £6,000 distributed in £1,000 termly instalments throughout the course of the Part 2. Successful part-time applicants will receive the same maximum amount in payments proportionate to the length of studies. The deadline for receipt of applications is 12pm on Friday 12 April 2019.

Reminder that the RIBA Student Support Fund, Spring 2019 application cycle is still open and current Part 1 and Part 2 students ARE eligible to apply.

Full details about this scheme are available here.

The deadline to apply is 12pm on Friday 29 March 2019.

Featured image: RIBA website – courtesy of Jordan Green, past recipient of a RIBA Part 2 Bursary

RIBA Student Support Fund open for applications! Deadline: Friday, 9th of November, 12pm

Posted on October 23, 2018 by Mirna Pedalo

The RIBA Student Support Fund is now open for the Autumn application cycle.

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 in order to successfully complete their course.

The fund runs in the Autumn and Spring term, and applicants can apply for up to £3,000 in each application cycle.

The deadline for receipt of applications in this Autumn application cycle is 12pm Friday 9 November 2018.

More information about the fund and details of how to apply are available here.

Call for abstracts: RIBA Research Matters 2018, Sheffield, October 18th-19th_Deadline 31st July

Posted on June 17, 2018 by Mirna Pedalo

Plans are currently underway for the 2018 RIBA Research Matters conference, with this year’s event to run over two days in Sheffield, co-hosted by the University of Sheffield and Sheffield Hallam University.

As you may already be aware, the Research Matters conference has been developed to provide early career stage researchers an opportunity to present their work in a format similar to that of a peer-refereed conference, but without the usual preparatory processes of submission, selection, and rewriting. Research Matters aims to support PhD students and early career researchers in the development of their work. The event adopts the rigour of an academic conference but with papers to be presented in a constructive, supportive and non-confrontational atmosphere.

This year, we have decided to include shorter, PechaKucha-style sessions in the programme to encourage those with less developed research work to present. We intend to open these sessions up to local practices and more established researchers to present their work. We see this as a good opportunity to facilitate potential collaborations between practice and academia, and to support the development of relationships with the practice research community.

We kindly ask you to promote this event to your post-graduate students and staff, as well as to any practices who you think may be interested. Please encourage submissions for both the paper and the pecha kucha presentation slots.

At this stage, applicants for the paper presentation will need to submit:

their contact details
a paper title
an abstract of no more than 500 words, covering:

what the research is seeking to find
why the research is being conducted
what the current stage of work is
what the research methods being employed are
any findings to date

For the PechaKucha slots, simply a name and a theme will suffice for now. Booking and venue information will follow shortly and attendance at the event is free.

Please email your submissions or any queries to research@riba.org by 31st July, 2018.

Featured image Sheffield Hallam Students Union, credit Ken Kay / RIBA Collections via RIBA

Traditional Architecture Group Student Award £1,000_Deadline 30th September 2018

Posted on June 7, 2018 by Mirna Pedalo

The RIBA’s Traditional Architecture Group (TAG) will be awarding a prize at the end of the year to encourage classical and traditional architecture in students projects.

A prize of £1,000 will be awarded for the best classical or traditional scheme designed by a student studying architecture at a university in the UK.

The rules are as follows:

1. The applicant must be a student (or recent student) studying architecture at a university in the UK.
2. The applicants can only submit one scheme.
3. The work must have been designed and drawn after 1st January 2017.

Work is to be emailed to info@ftanda.co.uk titled TAG BEST SCHEME COMPETITION by 30th September 2018.

Entries must include:

1. Full name of applicant,
2. Name of University / school,
3. Address of applicant (email and/or postal),
4. Phone number of applicant

From these, a winner will be selected by members of the TAG committee. Discretionary commended schemes will also be chosen by the committee. The prize will be given out in November at a TAG awards evening or as part of the Georgian Group Award, to be confirmed.

For further queries, contact Francis Terry on info@ftanda.co.uk

“Cleveland – Alternatives to the Present” Conference on Architecture, Urbanism, Sociology, Development & Planning_Deadline for Abstracts: 5th June 2018

Posted on May 21, 2018May 21, 2018 by Mirna Pedalo

Where: Kent State University, Cleveland

When: 01-02 November 2018

Deadline for abstracts: 05 June 2018.

To download form and more info: http://architecturemps.com/cleveland/

Context:

Alternatives to the Present…… The New Urban Agenda of the United Nations presents itself as a blueprint for governments globally. Through it, UN-Habitat seeks to combine the material, social and environmental agendas molding the urban world. The American Planning Association reflects this, advocating for planning that promotes social equity, inclusive communities, and expanded opportunities for all. The International Union of Architects speaks of revolutionizing design to ensure sustainable human settlement, while the AIA champions liveable communities. In the UK, the RIBA links housing design and social inclusion and the National Housing Federation connects the provision of homes to public health. All this reflects the field of sociology and geography with the ISA identifying cites as the principle site of social conflict and political contestation and the American Association of Geographers linking the notions of resilience and urban justice.

This apparently holistic view suggests that 20th Century top-down and disciplinary reductive understandings of the urban condition, such as those attributed to the Athens Charter, are a thing of the past. It also suggests a scenario in which social equity is fully integrated into notions of development. However, even a cursory glance at the reality of early 21st Century urbanism shows this is clearly not the case. On the one hand, individual disciplines still tend to work in isolation and even in competition, while on the other, Neoliberal agendas still represent the raison d’être of most development projects. The Alternatives to the Present conference seeks to critique the dichotomies involved in this increasingly confused scenario by bringing together various disciplines to interrogate the diversity of factors either limiting or activating the possibilities of an equitable urban future.

Key Dates:

Abstracts: 05 June 2018 | Abstract Feedback: 25 June 2017 | Registration opens: 01 July 2018

Conference: 01-02 Nov 2018

Full Paper Submission (where applicable): 10 Jan 2019 | Feedback for publication: 10 March 2019 | Full Publication: 10 July 2019

Nb. There will be a second round of late abstract submissions on 01 September 2018.

Featured image from Amps web-site.

AJ Student Prize – Deadline: Friday 8th June 2018

Posted on April 26, 2018 by Mirna Pedalo

All RIBA-accredited schools are invited to submit the final project of one undergraduate and one postgraduate student

The AJ has launched a free-to-enter prize aimed specifically at UK-based architecture schools, open to all students on RIBA-accredited architecture courses.

We are inviting all schools to submit the final-year projects of their two best students – one at undergraduate (Part 1) and one at postgraduate (Part 2) level. The projects must have been completed in the most recent academic season (2017/18). The AJ will publish the two entries received from each school in its annual student issue in July.

The judges – who will be announced next month – will choose two winners, one from each level, who will be announced at a prize-giving event in London this September. The winners’ work will also be covered in a September issue of the AJ.

This prize is a great platform for universities to celebrate the work of their students and their architecture departments in teaching the next generation of skilled architects.

More info on how to apply here.