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“Secrets of a Digital Garden: 50 flowers, 50 villages” curated by DS22 tutors Yara Sharif and Nasser Golzari at the Chicago Architecture Biennial, 19 September 2019 – 5 January 2020

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Dr. Yara Sharif and Dr. Nasser Golzari from the School of Architecture + Cities will be taking part in the 2019 Chicago Architecture Biennial.

In a collaborative project with Riwaq: centre for architectural conservation, Yara Sharif and Nasser Golzari will be curating the exhibition entitled Secrets of a Digital Garden: 50 flowers, 50 villages.

Secrets of a Digital Garden is a future imaginary scenario set up in rural Palestine in the form of a digital garden with 50 interactive flowers representing 50 Palestinian villages. The work draws on their collaborative work with Riwaq on revitalising 50 Palestinian historic fabrics and their on-going research by design as founders of NG Architects and Palestine Regeneration Team (PART).

Nothing is conventional in this garden. 50 slices of earth containing ‘digital’ flowers will be brought to Chicago to narrate the absurd dis-connectivity of Palestine and the attempt to reclaim it through the 50 Villages Project. Underneath the surface, a process of production is in place. Capsules containing physical and digital DNA is trapped in each flower to capture and share the story of the 50 Villages.

The exhibition explores new means to navigate the landscape of Palestine using digital fabrication and film.

https://chicagoarchitecturebiennial.org/news

The 2019 edition of Chicago Architecture Biennial is directed by Yesomi Umolu and is titled ‘ …and other such stories’.

The opening will take place on September 19, 2019, and will stay open till January 5, 2020.

The event promises to form an expansive and multi-faceted exploration of the field of architecture and the built environment globally. Developed through a research-led approach, the curatorial team Paulo Tavares, Sepake Angiama — led by Umolu — draws on the spatial, historical, and socio-economic conditions of Chicago to consider questions of land, memory, rights, and civic participation…’

Yara Sharif and Nasser Golzari are award-winning architects and academics with an interest in design as a mean to facilitate and empower ‘forgotten’ communities, while also interrogating the role of architecture politics and social commitment. Combining research with design, their work runs parallel between the architecture practice NG Architects, London and the design studio at the University of Westminster and their design-led research group Palestine Regeneration Team (PART). Their work has been exploring new means to rethink the Palestinian landscape through speculative scenarios and live projects.

Their work has won the RIBA President’s Award for Research amongst other awards.

The installation is done with the support of the University of Westminster and the Fabrication Lab, Golzari NG Architects, London and Palestine Regeneration Team (PART).

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)