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Many congratulations to Peter Barber, Reader in Architecture, MArch Design Studio 12 tutor, alumnus, and the UKs leading building and campaigning social housing architect who has been elected a Royal Academician.
For more information please go here.
Featured image: Peter Barber RA, Donnybrook Quarter, 2005 (via Royal Academy)
Archisource have just launched their third, annual, free-for-students, Drawing of the Year competition and would like to invite our students to enter!
Archisource instagram.com/archisource is an architecture and design platform for students and professionals with a growing creative community – now 230,000 on Instagram. Having published our students’ great work over the past year they would love to invite you to submit your best works into their annual, free-for-students, international Drawing of the Year competition! The competition celebrates the extensive variety of drawings and showcases the amazing array of talents around the world each year.
With £10,000 ($13,500) worth of prizes, international publication and extensive promotion to be won, there are four Award Categories and a variety of Commendations to win from, including: the Drawing of the Year Award, Architectural Award, Narrative Award and the Environmental Award. Archisource are proud to partner with Enscape this year who will also be awarding an ‘Enscape Commendation’ to the best drawing created with their software – which is also free for students!
Enter here!: archisource.org
The competition is now open and entry closes 31st January 2022!
Archisource truly believe in the power of drawings to communicate and represent more than what you see on the surface and they are excited to judge an array of high quality works. The competition is not just limited to architecture and very much welcome those from other arts and design industries.
This is a great opportunity to win some fantastic prizes but it’s also a great opportunity to be published and receive significant exposure for both the winners and their university to the architecture and design industry.
Archisource look forward to your submissions and wish you luck!
Thanks to the support of our VC Peter Bonfield, and the efforts of Dain Son Robinson and Matt and Jessica in the University’s design team, an ArCCAT flag has been produced and is hanging outside the Regent Street building this week. Once it is taken down, it will find a permanent home in the M416, the William Cullen Room.
Congratulations to all involved and thank you for this endorsement of the work we are doing in the School of Architecture + Cities towards addressing climate change and wider sustainability goals.
AAA are excited to be launching their first ever photography competition, which is free to enter and open to all.
AAA would love to have participants from all backgrounds (don’t have to be Asians only) participate in this exciting creative opportunity.
The theme of the competition is ‘’Joy in Architecture’’ (which doesn’t have to be about Asian culture but could be a wider interpretation).
Excerpts from the website:
The pandemic has highlighted the importance of how we live, work and interact with one another; with the use of photography enabling us to relive memories and feel connected but most importantly capturing those special moments.
As we continue to adapt to the new normal, let us celebrate the joy that architecture brings to our daily lives.
AAA are interested to see what joy in Architecture means to you. It could be about buildings, people or capturing moments of the everyday; we are open to all interpretations of the theme.
Competition opens: Sunday, 7th of November 2021, 9:00am
Closing date: Thursday, 13th of January 2022, 23:59pm
Announcement: Friday, 4th of February 2022
For more information, please go here.
#spreadthejoy21 #asianarchitects #joyinthecity
The RIBA Student Support Fund is now open for the Autumn 2021 round of applications!
Students enrolled in RIBA Part 1 and Part 2 courses in the UK and experiencing financial hardship can apply for a bursary of up to £3,000. Guidance notes and application details are available on the RIBA website.
The deadline to apply is 12pm on Friday 3 December 2021.
By the end of December, RIBA will have supported approximately 100 students and researchers by allocating just over £290,000 in scholarships, bursaries, and grants, the highest amount ever awarded by the RIBA in a calendar year. Read more about the recipients of this year’s funding on the Scholarships and Bursaries pages of RIBA’s website.
Following the completion of the week-long design Student Competition on the ‘Material ReUse Station’ as part of the Climate Action Week (24-29 October) Group 5: The Slice was announced the winner!
Congratulations to Julie Beech (BA Interor Architecture), Adam El Hafedi (BA Architecture), Zuzanna Jodlowska (BSc Architectural Technology) and Ruhan Zaman (BSc Architecture and Environmental Design)
The video made by the winning team can be viewed here.
Congratulations to the winners and all who participated. Big thank you to all the judges and course leaders Diony Kipraiou, Paolo Zaide, Stefania Boccaletti and Tabatha Mills who organised this cross-UG-course competition, first such initiative in the School.
The next step will be collaboration with David Scott and the Fabrication Lab to work on building a prototype.
The special issue of Architecture and Culture (Volume 11 Issue 1) seeks to broaden notions of how the sacred, spiritual and secular are imagined and constituted through new architectures. We invite expansive interpretations of faith, religion and spirituality and the spatial and architectural encounters between them. We are interested in innovative faith practices and spaces, and welcome contributions that address the spatial implications of the rising phenomenon of online gathering and worship, necessitated by the Covid pandemic.
The journal invites articles which might explore (but not be limited to) the following themes:
The journal aims to publish a selection of articles from both established and early career scholars. It will also seek perspectives from practitioners (architects, artists and heritage professionals), stakeholders and members of faith communities.
For more information please go here: https://think.taylorandfrancis.com/special_issues/spiritual-sacred-secular-places-faith-twenty-first-century/
Kate Jordan is a Senior Lecturer in Architectural History and Theory at the University of Westminster. She publishes and lectures widely on modern-era Christian architecture: recent publications include her co-edited volume Modern Architecture for Religious Communities, 1850-1970: Building the Kingdom and ‘Places of Worship in a Changing Faith Landscape’ in 100 Years, 100 Churches. Her research on Victorian magdalen convents was shortlisted for the 2016 RIBA Presidents Award for Research. She is currently working on contemporary church architecture, a subject on which she regularly contributes articles and reviews for RIBAJ. In June 2019, she organised a conference entitled ‘Spiritual, Sacred, Secular: The Architecture of Faith in Modern Britain’, co-hosted by the University of Westminster and the RIBA.
Shahed Saleem is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Westminster, and a practising architect. His book, The British Mosque, an architectural and social history, was published by Historic England in 2018 and is the first comprehensive account of this building type in Britain. His architectural design work was nominated for the V&A Jameel Prize 2013 and the Aga Khan Award for Architecture 2016. His research won commendations at the RIBA President’s Medal for Research and Historic England Angel Award for excellence in heritage research, in 2018. He co-organised the conference ‘Spiritual, Secular, Sacred: The Architecture of Faith in Modern Britain’, June 2019, with Kate Jordan.
A huge congratulations to Jamie Williams, a MArch DS18 student last year and his tutor, Ben Pollock who have won the overall prize (Jamie) and an honorary mention (Ben) for their submissions to MIT’s Projection 16 – Visualizing Cities awards. These awards celebrate data visualizations that analyze city dynamics to inform urban planning practice and advocate for just, safe, and equitable cities.
Jamie William’s “The Atlas of the Carbon Economy” combined rigorous research and visual storytelling to unpack the geopolitics of carbon trading. It will also be exhibited at a COP26 fringe event – Imagine Glasgow 2021, COP26 Edition hosted by the New Glasgow Society in collaboration with ACAN/ACAN Scotland, Common Wealth and the Architectural Associations Ground Lab.
Ben Pollock’s “Why and Where We Need to Change, London 2020” highlighted the compound effect that social factors, environmental stress, and climate threats have on London neighbourhoods.
A catalogue of all the projects submitted to MIT’s Projection 16 – Visualizing Cities awards is available at http://visualizingcities-dusp.mit.edu
Featured images: Jamie Williams Atlas of the Carbon Economy (left) and Ben Pollock Why and Where We Need to Change, London 2020 (right)
ArCCAT would like to congratulate Hugo Reis Santos (BSc Architecture and Environmental Design Year 3) for his winning design for a logo for the Architecture and Cities Climate Action Taskforce (ArCCAT), as well as Grace Lancto, Stefano Towli and Winander Rachbuakao as runners-up.
Thank you to all who participated in the competition.
The awards will be presented at the opening of the Climate Action Week Exhibition on the Learning Platform at 17.30 on 25th October.
All are welcome to attend.
The School of Architecture + Cities launched ArCCAT on 20th May 2021. It is made up of staff and students from across the school committed to bringing about the cultural shift in education to meet climate biodiversity and planetary system challenges.
Current students of the School of Architecture + Cities or those who graduated in 2021 are invited to submit proposals for a logo for ArCCAT to represent its aims and build its identity and profile.
Launch: Monday 20 September 2021
Submission extended to Monday, 11th of October 2021 | 600 x 600 px jpgs to Lindsay Bremner at l.bremner@westminster.ac.uk
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