The RIBA Council has approved 12 new RIBA Honorary Fellowships to reward individuals from a diverse spectrum of backgrounds, including the worlds of education, sustainability, engineering, property development, journalism, politics and the wider built environment industry.

RIBA Honorary Fellowships are awarded annually to people who have made a particular contribution to architecture in its broadest sense. This includes its promotion, administration and outreach, and its role in building more sustainable communities and in the education of future generations.

The 2013 RIBA Honorary Fellowships were awarded at a ceremony and dinner at the RIBA| in London on Wednesday 6 February 2013 to:

• Barry Bergdoll, Professor of 19th and 20th Century Architectural History,
  Theory and Criticism, Columbia University 
• Philip Dilley, Chair of Arup Group
• Dr Wolfgang Feist, environmental engineer
• Harry Handlesman, Client for Manhattan Loft Corporation
• Rod Holmes, Client for Grosvenor Estates
• Sarah Ichioka, Director of the Architecture Foundation
• Prof Harry Mallgrave, Director of the International Center for Sustainable New
  Cities, Illinois Institute of Technology
• Jonathan Meades, Broadcaster and writer
• Jay Merrick, Journalist
• Piet Oudolf, Landscape and garden designer
• Lady Jill Ritblat, British Architectural Trust Board
• Baroness Whitaker, Labour peer

The lifetime honour allows recipients to use the initials Hon FRIBA after their name.