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Industry News
Professor
Murray Fraser
to receive 2018
RIBA Annie
Spink Award
The Royal Institute of British Architects
(RIBA) has today (30 November 2018)
announced Professor Murray Fraser as the
recipient of the 2018 RIBA Annie Spink
Award for excellence in architectural
education.
Professor Murray Fraser © Dr Eva
Branscome
Fraser, who is Professor of Architecture and
Global Culture and Vice-Dean for Research
at the Bartlett School of Architecture (UCL),
will be presented with the award at the
President’s Medals ceremony in London on
Tuesday 4 December.
The prestigious biennial prize is awarded
to an individual who has made a significant
contribution to the advancement of
architectural education in a school of
architecture anywhere in the world that
offers courses validated by the RIBA.
RIBA President, Ben Derbyshire, said:
“Congratulations to Professor Murray
Fraser on winning the 2018 RIBA Annie
Spink Award. Murray’s extensive career has
influenced the development of thousands
of students at Oxford Brookes University,
at the University of Westminster, and at the
Bartlett School of Architecture, as well as
over many other aspects of architectural
education. The academic rigour of his
teaching of design, and history and theory,
and his passionate commitment to sharing
architectural knowledge in the most diverse
publishing formats, make him a most
deserving winner of this award.”
Research project which
reconnects homeless people
with local support services
wins RIBA Research Medal
The Royal Institute of British
Architects (RIBA) has awarded the
2018 RIBA President’s Medal for
Research to Chris Hildrey of Hildrey
Studio for ‘ProxyAddress: Using
Location Data to Reconnect Those
Facing Homelessness with Support
Services’.
One of many interviews carried out
in homeless shelters across the UK
© Hildrey Studio
Chris Hildrey’s project addresses one
of the main causes of homelessness
in the UK: the end of an ‘assured
shorthold tenancy’, where a
landlord is legally entitled to issue a
possession order.
ProxyAddress tackles this issue
through collaborative research and
real-world application. It creates
a database of long-term empty
properties, which serve as ‘proxy’
addresses to be used throughout
periods of instability. By giving
homeless people a consistent
address, they are able to retain
access to vital support services,
which may otherwise be lost.
ProxyAddress was selected as the
Medal winner from other recipients
of the 2018 RIBA President’s
Awards for Research, which were
also announced yesterday evening
(Tuesday 4 December).
The RIBA President’s Awards
for Research were given in four
categories: Cities and Community;
Design and Technical; History and
Theory; and this year’s theme: Ethics
and Sustainable Development.
Cities and Community:
•
Chris Hildrey, Hildrey Studio
‘ProxyAddress: Using Location
Data to Reconnect Those Facing
Homelessness with Support Services’
Design and Technical:
•
Dr Kostas Grigoriadis,
Architectural Association
School of Architecture
‘Computational Blends: The
Epistemology of Designing with
Functionally Graded Materials’
History and Theory:
•
Prof Jane Rendell, Bartlett
School of Architecture, UCL
‘May Mo(u)rn: transitional spaces in
architecture and psychoanalysis – a
site-writing.’
Ethics and Sustainable
Development:
•
Roland Karthaus, Anthony Hu &
Lucy Block, Matter Architecture
‘Redesigning Prison - the
Architecture and Ethics of
Rehabilitation’
Key recommendations include:
Britain must retain and build
a skilled workforce
The Migration Advisory Committee (MAC) has released its
Government-commissioned study, “EEA migration in the UK: Final
Report”.
The report set out to establish the current and likely future
patterns of EEA migration.
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• No preference for EU citizens, assuming that immigration
will not be part of the UK-EU withdrawal agreement;
• Reviewing how the sponsor licensing system works for SMEs;
• Maintaining existing salary thresholds and extending Tier 2
(General) visas to all jobs at RFQ (Regulated Framework of
Qualifications) Level 3 and above;
• Reviewing the shortage occupation list;
• Retaining and revaluating the Immigration Skills Charge;
• Abolishing the cap on the number of migrants under Tier 2
(General) visas.