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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.

Part 1 or Part 2 Architectural Research Assistant position at Grimshaw + Fabrication Lab Co-Lab

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We are delighted to announce a new collaboration between Grimshaw Architects and the Fabrication Lab. The project is launching in the next few weeks and will have a vacancy for a Part 1 or Part 2 Architectural Research Assistant. We will be looking for a creative, pro-active graduate, interested in working on a cutting-edge, practice-led research project. The position will be open to graduates from this or last year from our BA, BSc and MArch degrees.

The paid role will be based part-time in Grimshaw’s London Practice and part-time at Westminster in the Fabrication Lab. You’ll work on a project-based research agenda within Grimshaw‘s Computational Design Group, drawing on the resources and expertise in the Lab including CNC machining, robotics, 3D scanning and XR technologies. This role will be complemented by working in the Fabrication Lab assisting with the further development of our research-informed teaching.

You’ll need to be highly organised, have strong communication skills and have both an appreciation of the Grimshaw design ethos, as well as the teaching and research ambitions of the Fabrication Lab.

If you are interested in finding out more about this opportunity, please write an expression of interest to D.Scott@westminster.ac.uk, including a few sentences about what attracts you to the position. We expect to hold interviews within the next few weeks and for the position to begin soon after.

​RIBA Research Fund _ Deadline: Thursday, June 27, 17:00

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The RIBA Research Fund awards annual grants to individuals conducting independent architectural research at any stage of their careers in practice or academia. The aim is to support critical investigation into a wide range of subject matters relevant to the advancement of architecture, and connected arts and sciences, in the United Kingdom.

Payments of grants from the RIBA Research Fund are made directly to individuals (practitioners and academics) and not to commercial businesses or to higher education institutions. The Fund does not support course fees, expenses, and subsistence costs for those enrolled in PhD/MPhil or Masters programmes.

The 2019 application cycle is now open.

For more information and to apply please visit here, where you can download and complete the application form, and submit to Gillian.Harrison@riba.org

The deadline for receipt of applications is 5pm Thursday 27 June 2019.

Please note, applications received after this time will not be considered.

If you have any questions regarding this funding scheme, please email Gillian.Harrison@riba.org

RIBA Boyd Auger Scholarship _ Deadline: Thursday, June 27, 17:00

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In 2007, Mrs Margot Auger donated a sum of money to the RIBA in memory of her late husband, the architect and civil engineer Boyd Auger, to create a funding scheme that would support and reward architecture students and graduates.

This became the RIBA Boyd Auger Scholarship; a £5,000 scholarship which aims to assist with closely defined research proposals by architecture students and graduates lasting between 6 and 12 months, which involve carefully planned and budgeted periods of international travel. The scholarship can also support graduates in a period of international work experience, but the emphasis should be on the opportunity to travel in the chosen location.

We are pleased to confirm that in 2019, the RIBA Boyd Auger Scholarship has been increased to £6,000.

To be eligible, applicants must:

  • be enrolled in a RIBA Part 1, 2 or 3 course in the UK or overseas, or
  • have been granted a place of study in a RIBA Part 2 course by the beginning of the period covered by the scholarship, or
  • have graduated from a RIBA Part 1 or 2 course within the past 5 years

Applications for 2019 are now open. For more information please visit here, where you can  download and complete the application form and submit to Gillian.Harrison@riba.org

The deadline for receipt of applications is 5pm Thursday 27 June 2019.

Please note, applications received after this time will not be accepted.

If you have any questions regarding this scholarship which are not answered in the downloadable application form, please email Gillian.Harrison@riba.org

Featured image courtesy of Jo Ashbridge, RIBA Boyd Auger Scholar 2012

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

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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

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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

24-hour Studio Openings Ahead of Portfolio Submissions + OPEN2019

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In the run-in to portfolio submission and OPEN2019, the School of Architecture + Cities has agreed with Security extra cover to enable 24h opening of the Marylebone studios for the nights of:

  • Wednesday 8 May
  • Monday 13 May
  • Tuesday 14 May
  • Wednesday 15 May
  • Monday 20 May
  • Tuesday 21 May
  • Wednesday 22 May
  • Wednesday 12 June

Any infringements of the 11pm closing time on all other nights will automatically lead to the withdrawal of these additional opening times.

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

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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)

The SPAB’s Philip Webb Award_Entry period from July 19 to September 13, 2019

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The Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings (SPAB) is pleased to announce details of this year’s Philip Webb Award architectural competition, which is open to current Part II students at UK Schools of Architecture and recent graduates who completed their studies in 2017 or 2018.

The entry period will open on 19 July and close at 5pm on 13 September 2019. More details, Notes for Entrants and entry forms are available at: https://www.spab.org.uk/about-us/awards/philip-webb-award

Entrants are invited to devise a scheme which sympathetically revitalises a historic building of their choosing, which has decayed or been neglected, but which can be repaired and adapted for a new use. Schemes should incorporate both careful repair of existing fabric and a significant element of new construction in a contemporary design.

The competition will be judged by an expert panel of architects comprising:

  • Rebecca Harrison – of Harrison Brookes, whose Old Court House was longlisted for House of the Year 2018
  • Shahed Saleem – of Makespace, author of The British Mosque: an architectural and social history
  • Charles Wellingham – of Connolly Wellingham, SPAB Scholar and past winner of the Philip Webb Award

Contested Legacies: New Conversations – 2018 competition winners event

The winners of the 2018 Philip Webb Award will present their schemes and receive their prizes an evening event in London on 13 June 2019.

Speakers will be:

  • Chris Hamill (1st prize) on his scheme for Armagh Gaol, combining repair of the historic building with establishment of a craft skills centre on site, bringing together trainees from all parts of the community to work on temporary structures that could also form the basis of a permanent facility.
  • Rachael Moon (2nd prize) on her proposal to recast the former Pit Head Baths building at Chatterley Whitfield colliery as a spa and leisure facility for the local community.
  • Joe Copp (3rd prize) on for his leisure use concept for Bristol’s Floating Harbour, focusing on the fire damaged Bristol United Brewery Malthouse building.

More details and tickets are available now via the What’s On section of the SPAB website: https://www.spab.org.uk/whats-on/lectures/contested-legacies-new-conversations

The SPAB and New Design for Old Buildings

The book New Design for Old Buildings [RIBA/SPAB 2017] co-authored by SPAB’s Chairman Iain Boyd and heritage and sustainability writer Roger Hunt remains available from bookshops, the RIBA, and the SPAB: https://www.spab.org.uk/shop

Details of 2019 Autumn Lecture series and other forthcoming SPAB events exploring New Design for Old Buildings – more information will be available soon at: https://www.spab.org.uk/whats-on

Featured image: 2018 1st prize winner Chris Hamill “Armagh Gaol”