The Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) has today (29 July) announced the winners of the RIBA Research Trust Awards and the RIBA Boyd Auger Scholarship. The RIBA Research Trust Awards are offered annually to support independent architectural research. The RIBA Boyd Auger Scholarship supports architecture students or recent graduates by providing an opportunity to undergo a period of imaginative and original research and travel.
The 2015 recipients of the RIBA Research Trust Awards are:
RIBA Research Trust Awards
• Mhairi McVicar & Neil Turnbull, ‘Practicing Engagement: the value of the architect in a Community Asset Transfer’ – £10,000
• Jorge Rodríguez Alvarez, ‘A Case Study Handbook on Sustainable Housing Design. Feedback from London Residential Schemes’ – £10,000
• Urmi Sengupta, ‘Language of disaster: exploring the altered architectural fabric of Durbar Square, Kathmandu’ – £10,000
The 2015 recipients of the RIBA Boyd Auger Scholarship will receive £5,000 and is:
RIBA Boyd Auger Scholarship
• Matthew Eberhard (Part 2 Architectural Assistant at Rick Mather Architects), Lucy Paton (Part II Architectural Assistant at Witherford Watson Mann Architects), Benedetta Rogers (Part 2 Architectural Assistant at Featherstone Young Architect), and Anthony Staples (Associate Architect at Jan Kattein Architects), ‘Learning from Accra and the Global South’
The applications were assessed by the RIBA Research Grants sub-committee which comprises:
• Professor Robert Brown, Plymouth University (RIBA Council member)
• Dolan Conway, past RIBA Council member
• Professor Murray Fraser, The Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London (Chair)
• Robert Mitchell, Mitchell Taylor Workshop
• Alan Jones, Queen’s University
• Dr Alexandra Stara, Kingston University
• Victoria Thornton, Open City
• Meryl Townley, van Heyningen and Haward Architects (RIBA Council member)
RIBA President, Stephen Hodder said:
“It is always a pleasure to support innovative projects through the RIBA Research Trust Awards. This year, there’s a real potential to deliver considerable benefit and impact to the profession and wider society more generally. Furthermore, the fresh approach demonstrated by the RIBA Boyd Auger Scholars in bringing together architecture, sociology and anthropology will no doubt produce equally interesting results.”
RIBA Research Grants sub-committee Chair, Professor Murray Fraser said:
“The quality of applications this year to the RIBA Research Trust Awards and the RIBA Boyd Auger Scholarship was again at a very high standard, resulting in some very difficult decisions for the judging panel. As my last year as chair of this judging panel, I am delighted that we have been able to grant four very different awards, all of which I am confident will lead to useful contributions to their distinctive subject areas. It has been a privilege to be able to facilitate the direction of research funds towards such worthy projects over the years, and I have no doubt that the RIBA Trust Awards panel will continue to do so in future.”
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Posted on Wednesday 29th July 2015
