The Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) has made the highest ever funding award for architectural research in the Institute’s history, as it announced the recipients of funding for architectural research for the 2011/12 academic session, for which the combined total was just under £100,000.
Together with other funding schemes earmarked to support students of architecture, including £70,000 to students in financial hardship, the RIBA is expected to allocate a record £185,000 towards architectural education by the end of 2011.
The following research awards were made:
RIBA Research Trust awards went to:
· Oliver Domeisen received £9,500 for the project ‘The Four Elements of Ornament: Foundations for a Contemporary Ornamental Practice’.
· James Dunnett received £10,000 for the project ‘The Life and Work of Ernö Goldfinger, RA, RIBA (1902-1987)’.
· Annekatrin Hultzsch received £7,192 for the project ‘Date your District, 1942 Modern ‘Visual Re-education’ and the Perception of Victorian Architecture in the Architectural Review’.
· Yat Ming Loo received £8,128 for the project ‘Architecture and immigration in London: The lost history of Limehouse Chinatown (1900 -1970)’.
· Steve Parnell received £9,900 for the project ‘AD and Post-Modern architecture: a critical history’.
· Mahnaz Shah received £10,000 for the project ‘Le Corbusier’s Potato Building Typology 1963–1965: An Analysis’.
· Léa-Catherine Szacka received £7,300 for the project ‘Display and Debate: An Oral History of the 1976 ‘Europa/America’ Show at the Venice Biennale’.
Full details of the research projects are on the RIBA website at: LINK 1 LINK 2
