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On 5 July 2019, around 70 members and guests gathered at Portmeirion for the 2019 RSAW Summer School, co-hosted by Ibstock and Forticrete.

The shortlist for the 2019 Gold Medal for Architecture will be exhibited at the National Eisteddfod in Llanrwst from 3 to 10 August 2019. In partnership with Design Commission for Wales and the National Eisteddfod, RSAW has commissioned photographer James Morris and poet Beth Celyn to respond to each shortlisted building.

The RSAW Wales Future Practice Programme continues into autumn 2019 with lectures, updates and a joint forum for architects and planners, in four locations across Wales.

Two recipients will be welcomed as Honorary Members of RSAW in August 2019.

The Royal Society of Architects in Wales is delighted to announce the seven buildings that have been shortlisted for the RSAW 2019 Welsh Architecture Awards.

RSAW’s 2019 Festival of Architecture, Discovering the Unexpected, launches on 16 March with the Progressive Landscapes symposium at National Trust Dinefwr Park and continues to 28 June.

The Royal Society of Architects in Wales (RSAW) has published its Review of the Year 2018.

The Wales Future Practice programme is the Royal Society of Architects in Wales' alternative to RIBA Core CPD in England and offers a variety of seminars, tours and conferences that cover the 10 RIBA core curriculum topics at various venues across Wales. All CPD sessions are tailored to the Welsh context and respond to recent changes in Welsh Government legislation.

Authored by Dr Peter Wakelin on behalf of the RSAW, this feasibility study explores the best way forward for coordinating and archiving material pertaining to architecture in Wales. This includes material produced by Welsh practices themselves, and material produced in response to Welsh architecture.

The RSAW 25th anniversary conference on 30 November 2018, co-hosted by Rockpanel Group, will mark 25 years of national debate on architecture and the built environment with an unflinching and far-reaching exploration of 'The Value of the Architect'. Speakers include RIBA president Ben Derbyshire, RIAI Presdeint David Browne, Sarah Featherstone of Featherstone Young Architects, Irena Bauman of Bauman Lyons Architects and Richard Murphy, founder of Richard Murphy Architects, Edinburgh.