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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 >>