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The Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) has announced the shortlist for the 2016 President’s Awards for Research.

The annual awards celebrate the best research in the fields of architecture and the built environment. This year, a record-breaking 75 submissions were received from 14 countries, including 22 entries from architecture practices.

The shortlist for the 2016 President’s Awards for Research is as follows:

Cities and Community

• The Common Camp: Temporary Settlements as a Spatio-political Instrument in Israel-Palestine
Dr Irit Katz, University of Cambridge, UK

Kibbutz Givat Brenner 1935 by Kluger Zoltan copyright The Israeli National Photo Collection

• Palestine Regeneration Team (PART)
Dr Yara Sharif, Golzari NG Architects and PART, UK; Dr Nasser Golzari, Golzari-NG Architects, PART and University of Westminster, UK; Prof Murray Fraser, Bartlett School of Architecture and PART, UK

new urban strategy

• Living Well with Dementia at Home: Understanding the Role of the Home Environment
Dia Soilemezi, University of Portsmouth, UK

Design and Technical

• Supertall Timber: Design Research for the Next Generation of Natural Structure
Dr Michael Ramage and Dr Rob Foster, University of Cambridge, UK
Simon Smith, Smith and Wallwork, UK
Kevin Flanagan & Ron Bakker, PLP / Architecture, UK

Physical Testing (c) Michael Ramage

• UK’s First Amphibious House. Can-float Amphibious Building
Richard Coutts, Baca Architects, UK
Robert Barker, Forrest Mews (Formerly Baca Architects), UK

images © Baca Architects

• The SPAB Building Performance Survey 2015 Report
Caroline Rye and Cameron Scott, ArchiMetrics Ltd, UK

Mill House photo © Archimetrics

History and Theory

• Asmara – Africa’s Modernist City: UNESCO World Heritage Nomination
Edward Denison, The Bartlett School of Architecture, UK
Medhanie Teklemariam and Dawit Abraha, Asmara Heritage Project, Eritrea

Ministry of health / Edward Denison

• The Texture of Politics: London’s Anarchists Clubs 1882-1914
Jonathan Moses, Royal Holloway University London, UK

Autonomie Club – The Graphic – 1894 – pt 4 (c) The British Library

• ‘Spotless Lilies and Foul Smelling Weeds’: Architecture and Moral Cleanliness in Victorian Magdelen Convents
Kate Jordan, Bartlett School of Architecture, UK

KJ Spotless Lilies Figure 6 (c) Generalate of the Poor Servants of the Mother of God

Annual theme: Learning from Projects

• Make Public: Performing Public Housing in Ernö Goldfinger’s Balfron Tower
David Roberts, Bartlett School of Architecture, UK

Balfron Tower, Rowlett Street, Poplar, London by Erno Goldfinger (c) RIBA Collections

• Hybrid Building and Hybrid Practitioner: An Unbuilt Clan-
Community Hall in a Chinese Natural Village
Xiang Ren, Sheffield School of Architecture, UK

Balfron Tower, Rowlett Street, Poplar, London by Erno Goldfinger (c) RIBA Collections

• Low-energy, In-situ Refurbishment and Building Performance Evaluation of a Historic Town Council Building
Prof Rajat Gupta and Dr Adorkor Bruce-Konuah, Oxford Brookes University, UK
Adrian Kite, Ridge & Partners LLP, UK
Alex Towler & Nicole Lazarus, Bioregional, UK
Susan Mackrell, Bicester Town Council, UK

Garth House (c) Oxford Brookes University

Dr Kat Martindale, RIBA Head of Research and Innovation, said:

“We were thrilled to receive so many research projects this year, and from all over the world. The work submitted provides a glimpse of the global workings and interactions of architects, students and academics but it has been the number of collaborations that have stood out this year.”

Peter Clegg, chair of the judging panel and Senior Partner at Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios, said:

“Research is embedded in architectural best practice: innovation depends on it, conceptual thought demands it and the profession needs to recognise it more than it does at present.

“We were gratified therefore that the redefinition of the RIBA President’s Awards for Research has resulted in an unprecedented increase in responses from practice, as well as a record number of submissions from the UK and around the world.”

Background:

The RIBA President’s Awards for Research were established in order to reward and encourage outstanding research in architecture carried out by students, academics and practitioners. The awards are given in four categories: Cities and Community, Design and Technical, History and Theory and an annual theme, which this year was Learning From Projects.

RIBA President’s Awards for Research 2016 information from Royal Institute of British Architects

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