The Royal Institute of British Architects' Research and Development Department launched this new awards scheme in 2005 – the RIBA President's Awards for Research – to reward and encourage outstanding research in architecture carried out by PhD students, academics and practitioners.
The awards help to promote and champion high-quality research and encourage its dissemination and incorporation into the knowledge base of the profession. They contribute to raising the profile of architects, practitioners and academics engaged in outstanding research, and raise awareness of the need for research across the profession to foster innovation and strategic thinking.
PhD Thesis
'Patterning: envisioning strategies for thinking and fabricating architecture through the textile-inspired procedures of repeating, masking and scaling' by Ana Araujo at The Bartlett School of Architecture
'Between Typology and Typicality: German Swiss Architecture 1980 – 2000' by Irina Davidovici at the University of Cambridge
'Inhabiting Ethics: Educational Praxis in the Design Studio, the Music Class and the Dojo' by Leonidas Koutsoumpos at the University of Edinburgh
'Toward a Material Poetics: Sign, Subject, Site' by Kristen Kreider at The Bartlett School of Architecture
University-located Research
'Le Corbusier and the Occult' by Jan Birksted at The Bartlett School of Architecture
'Design Strategy for low-energy ventilation and cooling of health buildings' by Alan Short at the University of Cambridge
'Building the New Jerusalem: Architecture, housing and politics 1900-1930' by Mark Swenarton at Oxford Brookes University
'Architecture Depends' by Jeremy Till at the University of Westminster
Professional Practice-located Research
'LifE (Long-term Initiatives for Flood-risk Environments)' by Robert Barker from Baca Architects Ltd
'Research and Development of a Low-Cost, Low-Carbon, Prefabricated Timber Construction System: j.Pod' by John Barr from John Barr Architects
'Rubbish in: resources out' by Biba Dow from Dow Jones Architects
'Development of a whole life carbon assessment technique by Gareth Roberts from Sturgis Associates
For more information please email
research@inst.riba.org| or call Bethany Winning on 020 7307 3749.