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AHRA 2020: “Housing and the City” Conference _ Deadline for Abstracts: June 30, 2020

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AHRA 2020 Housing and the City conference online only. Information on fees and registration will be communicated at the end of the month. 

17th Annual International Conference of the Architectural Humanities Research Association

Hosted by the Architecture, Culture and Tectonics Research Group, Department of Architecture and Built Environment, University of Nottingham 

Given the changes to our lives brought about by the current Covid19 pandemic, we are sending a short additional call for papers for this year’s AHRA International Conference, Housing and the City, as follows:

Housing and the City After the Pandemic 

The primary question asked by the original AHRA 2020 conference call was this: what does it mean to be at home in the city in the twenty-first century? As the world continues to fight the rapid spread of Covid19, we might not yet be in a position to substantively rethink this question, let alone to predict a new urban reality of segregation and containment. However, we invite you to reflect and speculate on how the effects of the pandemic will shape our lives, how it challenges our conception of the home and the city, and how it affects the complex relationships between the individual and the collective, the public and the private. We ask how it might affect the dynamism of the urban.

We invite contributions in the form of individual papers or roundtable discussions, as well as submissions in a range of media, for example film, artwork or photography, that reflect and speculate on how the pandemic will shape our urban lives into the future. 

Expressions of interest should take the form of an abstract of 300 words, be submitted via the conference website, by 30 June 2020. 

You should submit your abstract by visiting our EasyChair account here: 
https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/conference/fac-eng/ahra-2020/index.aspx

Conference dates: 19, 20, 21 November 2020  (Virtual Conference)

Featured Image: © Atelier Z+& Ye Xu

SOS_20: A New 1 Month Critical Design Residency for London _ Deadline: midnight, Saturday, May 30, 2020

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London’s newest FREE independent design residency SOS_20 is now open for applications!!!

SOS_20 runs 27th July – 21st August

SOS is a growing network of students, graduates, practitioners and academics that are committed to the pursuit of critical thinking in art, design and architecture. Established in 2018, SOS is a not-for-profit organisation set up to help kick-start careers for those looking for alternative career paths in art and design. Established for truly accessible collaboration in higher education, the residency encourages all backgrounds and disciplines to participate.

Hosted by some of London’s leading public institutions such as the Design Museum and South London Gallery, 20 participants will join a 4 week long programme of lectures, workshops, public exhibition and tutoring geared to help develop projects in original creative thinking. SOS is proud to announce that there is a £0 fee this year thanks to the continued support of its sponsors as well as Arts Council England.

This year we are joined by author of Inventing the Future: Postcapitalism and a World Without Work economist Nick Srnicek, writer and author of Full Surrogacy Now: Feminism Against Family Sophie Lewis as well as artists Anna Bunting-Branch and Aliyah Hussain, with more tba.

Download the application form: https://schoolofspeculation.xyz/Apply-Now 

Applications close Midnight Saturday 30th May!

The course is under continuous revision and adjustment due to the ongoing uncertainty relating to the COVID-19 pandemic. For now, the course retains its original physical format but is subject to remote substitutions as enforced by a continued UK lock-down.  

AMS Stephen Croad Essay Prize 2020_Deadline: Monday, June 29, 2020

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The Ancient Monuments Society (AMS) is pleased to announce that submissions are now invited for the 2020 Stephen Croad Essay Prize.

The Prize was established last year in honour of Stephen Croad, former Head of the National Buildings Record and a great supporter of the AMS. It is intended to encourage and reward factually verifiable, documented new discoveries on the historic buildings of England and Wales, whether part of the established canon or hitherto less examined.

Full details can be found here.

In 2019 the Prize was awarded to James Sims for his outstanding essay Lost in Time: John Outram’s warehousing at Poyle, which has been published in the AMS’s 2019 Transactions.

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.

Congratulations to Charlotte Penny, former MArch student in the SA+C, on receiving the “Highly Commended” IHBC Gus Astley Award for her MArch dissertation “Conservation Theory and the Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings Manifesto: The Red House and the Contest between the Theoretical and Practical Nature of Conservation”

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Charlotte was mentored by Dr Kate Jordan, Senior Lecturer in the School of Architecture + Cities.

Dr Kate Jordan, Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Architecture at the University of Westminster, said: ‘Charlotte mined a variety of sources to produce a thought-provoking analysis of contemporary conservation practice and theory. Her work makes a valuable contribution to the scholarship of architectural heritage.’

Charlotte Penny said: ‘I am delighted to have received the ‘Highly Commended’ Gus Astley Student Award. I would like to sincerely thank the IHBC for the recognition and the opportunity to attend the Brighton School, as well as Dr Kate Jordan from the University of Westminster for her uplifting support and shared enthusiasm for my research.’

‘I very much enjoyed researching and writing my dissertation, in particular delving into archives and finding fascinating resources. The question of ‘the contest between the theoretical and practical nature of conservation’ was the subject of the dissertation, which centred on the Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings’ Manifesto and more specifically with the ongoing conservation of the historic fabric at William Morris’ Red House.’

‘I learned that philosophy and practice appear to only touch the surface of conservation and as such, conservation cannot solely be considered as three dimensional; the fourth dimension of time must be taken into account. Many factors are involved in the consideration of conservation work and custodians have to balance a wide range of often conflicting constraints, whilst also acting as faithful guardians of the United Kingdom’s shared heritage.’

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PLAYHOUSE Competition_Deadline, April 24, 2020, 6pm

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Hacking the home to make play part of everyday

Play is an essential part of all our lives, whether child or adult. Be it playing sports, a board game or simply sharing jokes with friends, play is just as important to adults as building a den or playing dress-up is to a child.

The Coronavirus outbreak has left many of us having to spend extended periods of time at home in lockdown, restricting the opportunity to socialise and play in ways that we are used to.

How can we use creativity to encourage play in these unique times?

To download full brief and submit your entry please go to: https://www.playhouse-competition.com/

First wave of submissions by 6pm Friday 24th April 2020 to be featured in May, and second wave by 6pm Friday 22nd May 2020 to be featured in June.

The Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain: Prizes and Awards in Architectural History_Various Deadlines

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In spite of the difficulties the pandemic presents, the Society is pleased to launch its annual Awards programme; our prizes and awards rank among the most prestigious in architectural history internationally. We now have a programme of four awards, each targeted at different sections of the discipline. You do not need to be a member to participate.

For our Book Prizes, nomination is now open until 1 May 2020. Anyone can nominate any eligible title, and authors and publishers are welcome to self-nominate. Nominated titles will then be invited to formally submit for assessment by our judging panels. 

For our Essay Prizes, submission by individuals is open until 1 September 2020. Prize winners will be announced at our Annual Lecture and Awards Ceremony in London (date, TBC). 

The society welcomes submissions of work relating to the history of the built environment from all cognate disciplines and subdisciplines, including but by no means limited to Architecture, Art History, History and Geography.

We encourage work on as diverse a range of themes as possible, including histories of design; histories of planning; histories of construction; histories of buildings in use; histories of interiors and interior design; and histories of practice and professionalism.

We are looking for work in the history of the built environment that is innovative, ambitious and rigorous. Please consider submitting your own work and encouraging students, colleagues and friends to do so too. For more information see below and the Awards page of our website.

The Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain

To find out more about each award, please click on links below:

James Phillips Travel Prize 2020 _ Deadline: May 4, 2020

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Background

The James Phillips Foundation is a charity established in 2015 in memory of James Phillips who died, aged 27, on Sunday 27 September 2014.

James was a partner at Make Architects, and studied architecture at the University of Kingston. The day after he died would have been his first day on Westminster’s Part 3 course. His brother Daniel completed his Part 1 BA Architecture here, and is now studying on the MArch.

James cared about architecture, photography and travel, and for his MA ‘Common Ground: An analysis of public space on an International basis’ he travelled to 24 countries to document – and photograph – their most significant public spaces.

The Prize

In 2016 The James Phillips Foundation very generously set up a travel prize of £1000 per annum for a Westminster architecture student in memory of James.

The only conditions are that the prize money must be used to facilitate travel, and that the goal of that travel should be photographed and archived on The James Phillips Foundation web-site within 6 months of the award being made[1].

Applications & Judging

The prize is open to all students enrolled on an Architecture course at the School of Architecture + Cities at the time of application, although the travel can be undertaken after graduating. Students should make a proposal of maximum 300 words + images demonstrating:

  • How the travel will enable investigation of: either a subject beyond the normal academic requirements of their course, or a specific study for their course that would otherwise be unaffordable (e.g. dissertation, extended essay, studio project).  
  • Why they have chosen a particular destination, or destinations, and what aspect of ‘common ground’ they plan to investigate – and how.
  • A draft travel schedule (in addition to the 300 words)
  • How they use photography to enhance their work

Proposals will be judged against the following criteria:

  • To what extent the proposed travel research will document and enhance knowledge of some aspect of common ground or public space.
  • Feasibility of the proposed travel
  • Quality of the proposal

Timetable

  • Notification of Prize: Monday 7 April
  • Proposal deadline: Monday 4 May submit to School Administrator: Saroja Boolkah S.Boolkah@westminster.ac.uk
  • Announcement of Winner: Friday 19 June (OPEN Awards Evening)

[1] In the current exceptional conditions, this time limit has been extended to 12-months

Congratulations to George Hintzen, DS10 alumnus, on receiving funding through Dragon’s Den for further development of his company TOAD.ai

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This episode of Dragon’s Den can be viewed on the BBC iPlayer, and will be available for the next 28 days.

TOAD.ai is a “data-driven outdoor advertising agency powered by technology.”

It was founded by George Hintzen in 2017, and their focus is on consolidating all of the UK’s outdoor advertising locations and layering it with geo-spatial audience data.

Award-winning Architect George held computational roles at top UK offices Heatherwick Studio, Zaha Hadid and Wilkinson Eyre on groundbreaking projects in like the Bombay Sapphire Distillery and Battersea Power Station. He specialised in optimisation of complex geometries and integrated signage – communicative architecture. Drawing from his experiences, he moved into the world of Outdoor Advertising – where the built environment meets media. He loves retrofit infrastructure: Mobile phone masts, billboards and treehouses.

TOAD.ai

Featured image: TOAD.ai

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.