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RIBA ANNOUNCES 2016 COUNCIL ELECTION RESULTS
The Royal Institute of British Architects( RIBA) has today( 9 August) announced the results of the RIBA Council elections 2016. All RIBA Council appointments announced today will commence on 1 September 2016.
National Council Members were elected using a single transferable vote. The first six candidates who reached the required quota and are therefore elected are:
Geoffrey Alsop, Caroline Buckingham, John Cole, Richard Murphy, Elena Tsolakis, Christopher Williamson
The following chartered members were elected as Regional Council Members using a single transferable vote:
• Carolyn Merrifield- RSAW President
• Ralph Carpenter- East
• Roger Shrimplin- East
• Saul Golden- Ulster
The following chartered members take uncontested seats as Regional Council Members:
• Jennifer Forakis- RIBA South
• Phillip Waddy- RIBA South
• Julia McLoughlin- RIBA South East
• Fraser Middleton- RIAS North
Simeon Shtebunaev was elected a Student Member of Council.
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BEN DERBYSHIRE ELECTED NEXT PRESIDENT OF THE RIBA
Ben Derbyshire has been elected the next President of the Royal Institute of British Architects( RIBA). He will take over the two-year presidential term from Jane Duncan on 1 September 2017; from 1 September 2016 he will officially become RIBA President-Elect. The position of RIBA President was established in 1835 and has been previously held by significant architects including Sir George Gilbert Scott, Sir Giles Gilbert Scott, Alfred Waterhouse and Sir Basil Spence.
Ben Derbyshire is chair of HTA Design LLP, a 150 strong multidisciplinary practice based mainly in London and Edinburgh, where he has been a partner since 1987. He has a number of other Board positions including at RIBA Enterprises, Design for Homes, and is a trustee of The London Society.
Ben Derbyshire said:
“ Once again we find ourselves in turbulent times. In winning this election I am conscious of a great sense of responsibility owed to architects everywhere, in all corners of the UK and overseas. Jane Duncan has laid the foundations for change at the RIBA that I look forward to driving forward, when I take up the role of President. My primary goal is to champion architects so that they, our sister professions and clients, can advance architecture as the cornerstone of the well-designed and more sustainable built environment society desperately needs.
All architects, wherever and however we practice, need an RIBA that works for us.”
RIBA President Jane Duncan said:
“ Congratulations to Ben Derbyshire on his successful election and to Alan Jones and Andrew Salter for putting themselves forward for this fantastic role. During the next year of my Presidency, I will be playing my part in implementing the RIBA’ s new five-year strategy which distilled the collective views of our membership. I look forward to passing this important baton on to Ben Derbyshire and ensuring that our profession has a strong voice and all our members, wherever they are, have the skills and support they need to thrive.”
WE LIVE IN THE OFFICE – A COMMISSION BY GILES ROUND THE ARCHITECTURE GALLERY, RIBA / 22 SEPTEMBER 2016 – 5 FEBRUARY 2017
This autumn the Royal Institute of British Architects( RIBA) presents a new commission by multi-disciplinary artist Giles Round.
Round was invited to explore the RIBA Collections, and through extensive research has created an exhibition for the Architecture Gallery that focuses our attention on one of the most familiar and unavoidable architectural features of the city: the façade.
Inspired by the work of a widerange of architects represented in the RIBA’ s world-class architectural collections, Round explores the increasing tension between the static exterior and changing interior of the architecture around us. He highlights the aesthetic qualities of facades in their original conception, and the subsequent contemporary use and reuse of these buildings. Round also explores the ways in which we currently‘ collect’ and preserve facades, creating an archive of buildings in real space and time.
Original works of iconic façades by Berthold Lubetkin, Venturi Scott Brown and Jane Drew feature in the exhibition alongside representation and re-appropriation of façades from other architectural periods with unique graphic qualities – from Greek Revival and Art Nouveau, to Modern and postmodern architecture. A key component of the exhibition is the transformation of the gallery to a production studio. Here, façades from a‘ stylebook’ compiled from
RIBA’ s Collections are applied to architectural sculptures that mimic the structure of buildings. Over the course of the exhibition period these will form an installation recognisable to visitors as an assembly of façades- a new city scape. The sculptures will be on sale in the gallery during the exhibition period.
Giles Round:
“ Central to the exhibition, an idea reflected in the title, is the reappropriation and repurposing of buildings that no longer fulfil the functional requirements for which they were designed. Working with the RIBA Collections, I focused on particular facades that I found interesting either graphically or due to their backstory. Throughout the exhibition the graphic quality of the selected facades are appropriated, stylistically altered, into new forms and different media.”
Marie Bak Mortensen, Head of Exhibitions:
“ This is the second year running of RIBA’ s artist-architect commission in which we invite creative practitioners with an interest in architecture to create an exhibition for the Architecture Gallery. A key aim of the commission is to introduce new ways of engaging the public with architecture and RIBA’ s Collections, recognised as one of the most important architectural resources containing drawings, models, photographs and archival material from the Renaissance to the present day. By inviting an artist to work with us, we hope to show the contemporary relevance of the collections to creativity and >>