Winners of the 2020 RIBA President s Medal for Research and Research Awards
By Alexander Walter|
Friday, Jan 22, 2021
Surface details of probiotic tile showing the textural, porous surface of the probiotic zone. All images courtesy of RIBA.
RIBA this week revealed the winners of the President s Awards for Research, a program established in 2006 to reward and encourage research in the fields of architecture and the built environment.
From the award winners in the four categories Climate Change, Cities and Community, Design and Technical, and History and Theory, the jury selected the work Probiotic Design by Richard Beckett from the Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London as the recipient of the 2020 RIBA President s Medal for Research.
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Big names call on government to adopt RetroFirst reforms
A host of big names in architecture and the built environment have called on the government to adopt the recommendations of the AJ RetroFirst campaign
A letter to the Times newspaper, published on Saturday, said the government ‘cannot ignore our wasteful addiction to demolition and rebuilding’, particularly amid preparations for the UK to host the COP26 climate summit later this year.
The letter was signed by 35 individuals including Doreen Lawrence, Norman Foster, David Chipperfield, Thomas Heatherwick, Amin Taha, Sadie Morgan and former environment secretary John Gummer.
The letter said adopting the three recommendations of the RetroFirst campaign – cutting VAT on refurbishment to 5 per cent or less; amending planning guidance and the Building Regs to promote reuse of existing buildings; and insisting all publicly funded projects look to retrofit solutions first – ‘would not only underline the UK’s leadership
7 January 2021 Congratulations to Lesley, who received the biennial award for her role as an educator, pioneer and advocate in architectural education around the world.
The prestigious prize was established in 2000, and is awarded by RIBA to individuals who “have made an outstanding contribution to architectural education in a higher education institution”. The estate of architect Herbert Spink bequeathed the Annie Spink Memorial Trust to RIBA in honour of his wife, for the “advancement of architectural education”.
Lesley is an architect and an academic advocate. She trained as an architect at The Bartlett during the 1990s. She completed her PhD at The Bartlett in 2007 and is now a Visiting Professor for the School. In 2014 she founded and led the Graduate School of Architecture at the University of Johannesburg, and has also taught at Iowa State University, University of Illinois, Kingston University, University of Westmin
Barton Peveril graduate, Eoin Shaw, won the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) London Student Award 2020. Eoin, who now studies Architecture at The Bartlett School of Architecture: University College London, won the award after creating a design for the North London Architects Group (NLAG). The award winning design was a concept for a Clubhouse for the Association of Enthusiasts of the North London Line which is said to have mixed contemporary design with classic architecture to blend a modern building into a centuries old dockyard . Eoin, who also previously attended St George s Catholic College, said he was surprised and honoured to win the highly sought after accolade .
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