RIBA announces 2022 President's Medal student winners

Continuing their work to recognize the valuable contributions of academics and researchers to the architectural field, the Royal Institute of Architects (RIBA) has announced its annual winners of the President’s Medal and Awards for Research. The 186th edition of the program saw UCL Bartlett School student Annabelle Tan taking home the RIBA Silver Medal for her investigation into notions of ‘tropicality’ in the context of Singapore titled 'A Journey through Past, Present and Post-Tropicality.’ Tan also took home RIBA Dissertation Medal honors for a related thesis project titled 'Past, Present and Post-Tropicality: Viewing Singapore through an ‘Infra(-)structural’ Field.' The Bronze Medal was awarded to Part 1 student Mary Holmes of the University of Cambridge for her work titled ‘Out of the Closet, Into the Garden,’ which “proposes the queering and retrofitting of two rows of terraced houses in the heart of a suburb in Harlow.” RIBA’s Serjeant Awards for Excellence in Drawing was awarded to Falmouth University student Nathan Tipping-Stevenson for ‘Leow Keskorra ha Dyski: A Place to Assemble and Learn’ at Part 1, and Nadir Qazim Mahmood of the Manchester School of Architecture for his work ‘Nirvana’ at Part 2.   Additionally, the 4th annual RIBA Awards for Sustainable Design were given to University of Edinburgh student Inka Eismar at the Part 1 level for ‘Common Ground | Leith.’ At the Part 2 level, Tan was again commended for her ‘tropicality’ dissertation. Finally, the Annie Spink Award was given to former University of Greenwich and University of Westminster in London Professor Kester Rattenbury for her three decades of scholarship and instruction, throughout which she has “cemented herself as a fixture and guiding light in architectural education,” according to RIBA President Simon Alford.  “This year’s RIBA President’s Medals celebrate the talent and work of architecture students from around the world. The record number of entries this year address contemporary topics with immense social and environmental significance. As ever, the range, scope, and scale of their inquiry is extremely impressive,” Alford added in a statement. “We have been running these awards for many decades and opened them up to the wider world of non-validated schools when I was VP for education over a decade ago. As well as being a celebration of this year's student preoccupations, the work now adds to our quite extraordinary archive of a long history of student inquiry.”RIBA Silver Medal and Award for Sustainable Design (Part 2): ‘A Journey through Past, Present and Post-Tropicality' by Annabelle Tan (University College London) Read the full post on Bustler