The Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) has today (21 July) announced the shortlist for the four categories of the President’s Awards for Research 2015. The Awards champion high-quality research, raise the profile of architects and academics engaged in research and highlight the need for research across the profession to foster innovation and strategic thinking.
This year, for the first time, the winning entry across the four award category winners will be presented with a new Research Medal. The new design of the Research Medal will be determined by a two-stage competition launched last week (see www.architecture.com/ResearchMedalComp for more information).
The shortlists for the President’s Awards for Research 2015 are as follows:
RIBA President’s Award for Outstanding Master’s Degree Thesis
• Fernando Munoz Gómez, Oxford Brookes University
Measuring the environmental impact of temporary exhibitions: A methodology to encourage sustainable practice
• Clelia Simpson, The Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London,
Framing the Present: Walker Evans’ Photographs of Victorian Architecture (Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1933)
• Christopher Purpura, The Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London
Holding Hands, Touching Alterity: Dance as Spatial Practice at Monte Verità, 1914
RIBA President’s Award for Outstanding PhD Thesis
• Schroeder Torsten, LSE Sociology Department, Cities Programme
Translating the concept of sustainability into architectural design practices: London’s City Hall as an Exemplar
• Claire Harper, University of Westminster
Compaction, Scale and Proximity: An investigation into the spatial implications of density for the design of new urban housing
• Isis Paola Nunez Ferrera, University of Westminster
Territories of Scarcity and Creativity: A Critical view on Informal Settlements and Emerging Tactics under Conditions of Scarcity in Nairobi, Kenya and Quito Ecuador
• David Kroll, Institute of Historical Research, University of London. Supervised in collaboration with the Survey of London (English Heritage/University College of London)
The Other Architects Who Made London: Planning and Design of Speculative Housing c. 1870-1939
RIBA President’s Awards for Outstanding University-located Research
• Iain Jackson and Jessica Holland, Liverpool School of Architecture
The Architecture of Edwin Maxwell Fry and Jane Drew: Twentieth Century Architecture, Pioneer Modernism and the Tropics
• Andre Viljoen and Katrin Bohn, School of Art, Design and Media, University of Brighton
Second Nature Urban Agriculture: Designing Productive Cities
• Andrew Price, School of Civil and Building Engineering, Loughborough University
Health Building Note 08-02: Dementia-friendly Health and Social Care Environments
• Parlour: Women, Equity, Architecture, University of Melbourne/University of Queensland
Parlour Guides to Equitable Practice
RIBA President’s Awards for Outstanding Practice-located Research
• Robert Adam, ADAM Urbanism
Tomorrow’s Home: Emerging social trends and their impact on the built environment
• Walter Menteth, Walter Menteth Architects
Pathways to Construction Procurement Reform leading to adoption and embedding of EU Directive 2004/24/EU
• Anna Liu and Mike Tonkin, Tonkin Liu
Shell Lace Structure
Chair of the Judging Panel, Ruth Morrow, of Queen’s University Belfast, said:
“Once again the quality of submissions to all categories of the President’s Awards for Research has been consistently high, original and engaging. This is particularly gratifying as the Awards celebrate their 10th anniversary: an occasion to be marked by the first award of the new Research Medal. The shortlisting process was lively and rigorous, and the panel looks forward to a summer of careful reading before discussions resume in September”.
The winners will be announced in October and awards given at the glittering RIBA Presidents Medals ceremony in December at 66 Portland Place, W1. This will feature the award of the President’s Medal for Research.
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Notes to editors
1. For more information or interview requests, members of the press should contact: Gagandeep Bedi, Press Officer, RIBA: gagandeep.bedi@riba.org 020 7307 3814
2. Academia queries about the awards should be sent to email research@riba.org
3. The RIBA President’s Awards for Research were established in order to reward and encourage outstanding research in architecture carried out by students, academics and practitioners
4. The awards are given in four categories: Master’s, PhD, university and practice-located research. The new Research Medal will be given to the strongest of the four award winners, decided by the judging panel.
5. Submissions were anonymised for the shortlisting process.
6. The Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) champions better buildings, communities and the environment through architecture and our members. Visit www.architecture.com and follow us at www.twitter.com/RIBA
7. The judging panel for the Awards are appointed by the Research and Innovation Group, on behalf of the President. RIBA staff provide administrative support to the panel, but do not take part in the judging itself. Peter Gibbs-Kennet acts as independent observer at judging meetings, in particular to ensure conflict of interest procedures are adhered to.
Posted on Tuesday 21st July 2015
