RIBA Awards President’s Medals 2018 for World’s Best Architecture Student Projects
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RIBA received 328 entries from 101 schools of architecture across the globe for the prestigious RIBA President’s Medals 2018. The winners were recently announced at a ceremony at 66 Portland Place. Projects that won the medals include a design for a hotel sRIBA Awards President’s Medals 2018 for World’s Best Architecture Student Projects
RIBA received 328 entries from 101 schools of architecture across the globe for the prestigious RIBA President’s Medals 2018. The winners were recently announced at a ceremony at 66 Portland Place. Projects that won the medals include a design for a hotel situated within an electric substation, a folk story carved into the fabric of a city, which explores the relationships between communities and their cultural heritage, and a dissertation on the ‘nook’ as an endangered species of space, as per RIBA.“The breadth and scale of talent evidenced in the design proposals and writings produced by this year’s winners are truly remarkable,” said RIBA President, Ben Derbyshire.Justin Bean at the University of Bath won the RIBA Bronze Medal for “Dreaming of Electric Sheep.” Justin’s design of a hotel situated within an electrical substation, explores the often-uncomfortable relationship between humans and technology, and questions whether that relationship should be complimentary instead of antagonistic, as described by RIBA.RIBA Silver Medal was presented to Sonia Magdziarz, at the Bartlett School of Architecture for “How to Carve a Giant.” “Sonia’s proposal physically carves a Finnish folk story into the fabric of a city and reinterprets contemporary typologies, such as libraries, workshops and, cultural archives to question whether we can preserve and disseminate knowledge. Sonia’s new building subtly emphasizes the powerful role architects play in defining the cultural heritage and identity of communities,” states RIBA.The RIBA Dissertation Medal has been awarded to Rosemary Milne of Edinburgh School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture, for “Species of Nooks and Other Niches.”“Rosemary’s project looks at the obscurities and inefficiencies of the nook, which has led it to become an endangered species of space, neglected in favour of efficiencies, transparencies, and open-plan spaces. The dissertation examines the complex nature of the nook and emphasizes its necessity and continued relevance for architectural practice and thought. The judges were unanimous in their assessment of the student as an important new talent and that a submission of this quality at undergraduate level is enormously impressive,” as described by RIBA.The Serjeant Awards for Excellence in Drawing were awarded to Camille Dunlop, Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL for “Pipeline Hijacking,” and Maria Marilia Lezou, University of Greenwich for “Hotel Mollino: Staging Spaces of the Everyday as Heterotopias of Performance in Scenography and Architecture.”Click on the slideshow for a sneak peek at the projects. https://www.blouinartinfo.com/ Founder: Louise Blouin Read more