29 September 2016
The Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) today (Thursday 29 September) announced the 2017 RIBA International Fellowships which will be awarded to twelve non-UK architects, of whom four are in partnership.
The RIBA's 2017 International Fellowships are:
- Johan Celsing – Johan Celsing Arkitektkontor, Sweden
- Izaskun Chinchilla – Izaskun Chinchilla Architects, Spain
- Frederick Cooper – COOPER GRAÑA NICOLlNI ARCHITECTS (now CGGMS architects), Peru
- Philip Cox – COX Architecture, Australia
- Tom de Paor – dePaor, Ireland
- Francisco Vieira de Campos and Cristina Guedes – Menos é Mais, Portugal
- Bijoy Jain – Studio Mumbai, India
- Siv Helene Stangeland and Reinhard Kropf – Helen & Hard, Norway and Austria
- Vo Trong Nghia – Vo Trong Nghia Architects, Vietnam
- Marie Jose Van Hee – MJose Van Hee Architecten, Belgium
The lifetime honour allows individual recipients to use the initials Int FRIBA after their name.
The 2017 RIBA International Fellowships will be presented at a special event at the RIBA, 66 Portland Place, London, W1 in early 2017.
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Notes:
- For further press information contact Callum Reilly in the RIBA press office: 020 7307 3757 callum.reilly@riba.org
- RIBA International Fellowships reward the particular contributions non-UK architects have made to architecture.
- The 2016 RIBA Honours Committee who selected the 2017 Fellows was chaired by RIBA President Jane Duncan with Sir Peter Cook, Neil Gillespie OBE, Victoria Thornton OBE and the 2015 Royal Gold Medallist Sheila O’Donnell.
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