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Building Design
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RIBA and Aedas's £5,000 scholarship launched
16 May 2013
Money awarded for postgraduate studies
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British student scoops Berkeley prize
15 May 2013
Sophia Bannert won the prize for an essay on wheelchair accessibility in Lincoln
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UEL appoints Muf and Anna Minton to top roles
3 May 2013
Shake up of architecture department continues
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Burwell Deakins gets planning for Queen's University Belfast pavilion
26 April 2013
Practice is refurbishing seven existing auditoriums
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New President for the Edinburgh Architectural Association
25 April 2013
Ian Stewart will hold the role for two years
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RIBA and Wren launch Part 2 scholarship
22 April 2013
Five students will receive £5,000 a year
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Newcastle students create upcycled cafe
18 April 2013
Eighteen students have created a cafe entirely from waste
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Cost of studying architecture creates 'artificial barrier'
17 April 2013
More flexibility over courses needed, says new report
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RIBA President's Awards for Research entries sought
12 April 2013
Deadline is Monday, May 20
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Manchester students win Slovenian pavilion competition
10 April 2013
Structure will be built this summer
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Is this a time for clients to be brave?
22 March 2013
In an uncertain climate, do architects need clients who are willing to take risks?
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Should architecture schools reduce student numbers?
15 March 2013
As architectural unemployment rises, do we need to cut back on those training to enter the profession?
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Feilden Clegg Bradley gets OK for biggest ever job
14 March 2013
Go-ahead for £250 million Belfast project
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BIG wins masterplan in US capital
13 March 2013
Firm to revamp Smithsonian cultural campus
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Architecture professor avoids jail over car vandalism spree
12 March 2013
Stephen Graham fined £28,000 for scratching ‘very silly’ onto Newcastle cars
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Mel Dodd to head architecture at Central Saint Martins
11 March 2013
Appointed head of architecture courses including new postgraduate and masters programmes
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Bjarke Ingels appointed to £1.6 million Smithsonian masterplan
28 February 2013
Danish architect will examine how to improve historic campus
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‘World-renowned architect’ sought for India centre in Docklands
21 February 2013
Competition will be launched later this year
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Bartlett to tackle sustainability
20 February 2013
Students will be able to test out 1-to-1 prototyping in new temporary facility
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Strathclyde tutor takes 2012 RIAS award
28 January 2013
David Reat chosen for bi-annual prize
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RIBA 2013 Norman Foster Travelling Scholarship launches
16 January 2013
Deadline for applications is April 26
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RCA students to build 'pop-down' in shadow of Wembley Stadium
8 January 2013
Community building chosen over 200m tall timber tower
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Greenwich students win national competition
17 December 2012
The team beat off competition from students of Newcastle and Sheffield universities
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RCA students plan giant timber tower for Wembley
11 December 2012
200m tall tower one of 12 designs for ‘meanwhile’ competition
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Winners of the 2012 President’s Medals announced
5 December 2012
Winners came from the Bartlett, Architectural Association and London Met
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Dundee Masters Unit propose self-build project
5 December 2012
The students have already received £140,000 of support from the industry
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Tony Fretton joins UEL as visiting professor
4 December 2012
Appointment is first in a series for the school
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UCL students pledge to carry on Stratford protests
3 December 2012
Sit-in ended after threat of court action
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UCL advertises for Stratford masterplanner as students stage sit-in protest
29 November 2012
UCL Council hears from opponents for first time
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UCL students protest over £1bn expansion plan
28 November 2012
Bartlett professors warn UCL chiefs against “aggressive and unethical” act
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Gehry on board for UCLA inititiative
21 November 2012
Greg Lynn and Thom Mayne to also take courses
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Students complete benches in City of London
5 November 2012
Hand and machine carved Portland Stone blocks installed at Cheapside
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From Polyark to Polyport: putting collaboration at the heart of architectural education
5 November 2012
As students across the UK and select international schools get stuck in to the brief for its latest incarnation, BD looks back at the birth of Cedric Price’s unique student experiment
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Introducing Polyport (Polyark III)
5 November 2012
The education collaboration project is back with a new brief and a new batch of international participants
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AA offers to drop £5m scam lawsuit
2 November 2012
Ex-finance manager is asked for £250,000 to settle ‘tainted leases’ row out of court
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RIBA president hands out medals for research
30 October 2012
Steve Parnell and Alastair Parvin among recipients
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Stanton Williams and Duggan Morris to mentor students
30 October 2012
Central St Martins launches pilot scheme
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Architects for Health launch student design charette
26 October 2012
Deadline for entries is November 16
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YAYA winner takes Harvard post
25 October 2012
Christopher Lee to lead course on Chinese cities
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University of Bath ranked best for architecture
1 October 2012
Sunday Times University Guide 2013 also reveals student satisfaction ratings
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The Bartlett MArch Graduate Design Show
28 September 2012
Is it research or is it art?
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London Met students in limbo despite ruling
27 September 2012
Part II’s caught in visa loophole
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Architecture student advertises services on eBay
21 September 2012
Third year students offers month’s work for 99p in bid to find internship
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Hawkins Brown lands Bartlett refurb
21 September 2012
Job is one of three awarded under £500m masterplan
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AA hits back at Wickham allegations
21 September 2012
Brett Steele said resignation letter is a “baseless attack”
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Wickham quits AA council
18 September 2012
Resignation letter complains about “cabal” running the school
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Student anger at school’s visa crisis
7 September 2012
London Metropolitan architecture students will be offered places at Kingston and University of East London
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Glasgow School of Art director to step down
5 September 2012
Seona Reid will leave after 14 years
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London Met students find new homes
4 September 2012
Non-EU students caught up in Border Agency visa row
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RIBA awards 2012 Boyd Auger scholarship
1 September 2012
Jo Ashbridge studied at Bath and Cambridge
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London Met students scramble to find alternative places
30 August 2012
Deportation fears after university visa licence revoked
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Fees hike fails to put off students
23 August 2012
Architecture courses as popular as ever, say universities
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Jerry Tate Architects completes Dartmoor treehouse
21 August 2012
Students worked with practice on £600 structure
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New Westminster dean warns of uphill struggle for students
8 August 2012
David Dernie says “social mobility is a big issue”
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Croydon student wins international design competition
7 August 2012
UCA Canterbury’s Jeffrey Adjei triumphs in Design for Adaptable Futures contest
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Are UK schools losing their best teachers?
27 July 2012
Yes, says Stephen Bates, there are better opportunities overseas; while Robert Mull says UK education is hard to beat
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Architecture student shows 2012: Westminster University
27 July 2012
This year’s show introduces two new studios and a change in direction along with examinations of London, China, Marseille and Krakow
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Architecture student shows 2012: London Metropolitan University
25 July 2012
This show places high emphasis on socially engaged architecture with London and Global contexts
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Architecture student shows 2012: Newcastle University
23 July 2012
This year’s show covers a wide variety of themes such as oscillations between past and present, cultural agency, alternative learning environments, and fields, rooms and interstices in a dense urban environment.
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Architecture student shows 2012: Liverpool University
20 July 2012
This year’s show embarks on an investigation cultural context of architecture and urban scale and form
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Architecture student shows 2012: Portsmouth University
18 July 2012
This year’s show is an exploration of interdisciplinary engagement in architecture and collaboration
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Sheppard Robson awards £1,000 of student prizes
17 July 2012
Two projects at Mackintosh School of Architecture honoured
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Architecture student shows 2012: Oxford Brookes School of Architecture
16 July 2012
Ten columns in a space, each representing a different exploration into spatial conditions
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Architecture student numbers drops by 12%
12 July 2012
Latest Ucas figures released this week
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Liverpool graduates win City bench competition
12 July 2012
Seating will be unveiled in London this October
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Architecture student shows 2012: Edinburgh University
11 July 2012
This year’s show is an innovative and unique exploration of the city of Venice.
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Architecture student shows 2012: Strathclyde University
11 July 2012
This year’s show prides itself on its ethos of engagement with reality – from addressing the basic concept of shelter to the more complex issues of building neighbourhoods and community.
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University of Strathclyde scoops three student architect awards
9 July 2012
Scottish Student Awards for Architecture announced at The Lighthouse in Glasgow
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Architecture student shows 2012: Royal College of Art
9 July 2012
A taster selection of what to expect at the RCA show 2012
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Architecture student shows 2012: Central St Martins
6 July 2012
This years show considers the position that architecture is about people and the built environment is a consequence of a complex networks and processes
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Architecture student shows 2012: Cambridge University (ArcSoc)
4 July 2012
This years themes include architecture and buildings as urban devices, remembering Berlin and working in the periphery
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Architecture lecturers defend design-led courses
3 July 2012
RIBA Appointments survey shows graduates lack practical skills
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Architecture student shows 2012: The Architectural Association
2 July 2012
A taster selection of what to expect at the AA Projects Review 2012
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Architecture student shows 2012: Sheffield Hallam University
29 June 2012
This year’s show places a strong emphasis on the environmental design of architecture in the spirit of sustainability
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Architecture student shows 2012: Northumbria University
27 June 2012
Modern reinterpretations of venerable institutions in Northumbria and projects addressing the impact of austerity on the North East
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Architecture student shows 2012: The Bartlett School of Architecture
26 June 2012
A wonderland of architectural inventions, propositions and suggestions ranging from the very practical to the completely conceptual.
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RCA students design hardwood chairs for festival
25 June 2012
Work will be exhibited at London Design Festival
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Prince's Foundation teams up with Strathclyde
13 June 2012
Urban design and sustainability courses will be offered
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2012 Student Degree Show Listings
11 June 2012
This year’s list of architecture degree show dates, times and locations
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Students central to Southbank festival bandstand
8 June 2012
Students get together with RIBA London and Studio AR
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Architecture students’ Olympic designs to decorate London
8 June 2012
Barlett, London Met and Westminster reveal innovative ideas
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Dear Matthew: "Is an MA a good investment?"
7 June 2012
BD’s agony uncle on how to weigh up the worth of embarking on a master’s course
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Health and safety teaching overhaul needed
6 June 2012
Report says schools should integrate teaching into design projects
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UCL's Bartlett tops architecture schools league table
22 May 2012
Cambridge and Bath also listed in top three
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AA students' Big Shed Assembly Workshop
22 May 2012
Architectural Association students demonstrate the potential of low-value local timber
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Bartlett announces £100,000 hardship fund for masters programme
3 May 2012
UCL ‘studentships’ aim to attract postgraduate students from diverse backgrounds
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Bath architecture student named Google ‘Zeitgeist Young Mind’
27 April 2012
James Boon cites placement year as inspiration for his social enterprise
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Edinburgh student lands Norman Foster Travelling Scholarship
25 April 2012
£6,000 will fund international architecture research
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London Met to open school in Moscow
19 April 2012
36 students set to start postgraduate architecture course this September
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AA students complete Hooke Park workshop
19 April 2012
‘Big shed’ designed and constructed by architecture students
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Sheffield students win Article 25 design competition
10 April 2012
Winning Haiti project includes market and government space
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Architects sign up to help A level students
3 April 2012
Make and Feilden Clegg Bradley among practices encouraging pupils to take architecture degrees
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Alejandro Zaera-Polo is new dean of Princeton architecture school
28 March 2012
London-based architect will succeed Stan Allen
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Adam Architecture's travel scholarship opens
21 March 2012
Architecture students can apply for £1,500 award
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Mackintosh architecture head defends appointments
15 March 2012
After international search, Christopher Platt picks candidates from his former school
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Funding hope for Scottish architecture schools
5 March 2012
Institutions to campaign for more funds as body in charge of budget considers reclassification of architecture
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University student plans Sheffield coconut grove
2 March 2012
Project wins Educate prize for sustainability in architecture and urban design
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Crowd-funding campaign launched by Illinois architecture school
29 February 2012
Students seeking $10,000 to build exhibition centre
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RIBA unveils £10k part II hardship fund
28 February 2012
Application deadline is May 15
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RCA students voice concern over new head of architecture
23 February 2012
Students demand meeting with dean Alex de Rijke over Charles Walker’s comments
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Greenwich University forms links with architects
23 February 2012
AHMM, Grimshaw and Make among practices assisting students
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Whitby forces RCA to retract architecture head’s CV claim
17 February 2012
Charles Walker took sole credit for award-winning bridge
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Immigration rules hit part II students
16 February 2012
Overseas architecture graduates must earn over £20,000 or leave the country
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The death of Archaos
14 February 2012
Student body to be replaced by Architecture Students Network
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Kingston students recreate Japanese bridge
10 February 2012
Structure will be on show at Ecobuild
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Rogers could learn from us
10 February 2012
In light of his calls for educational reform (News February 3), Richard Rogers should know that since 2000 UWE Bristol has offered a joint RIBA/RTPI-validated architecture and planning BA.
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Bursaries offered for RIBA-backed MBA
7 February 2012
Six people will receive £1,000 towards studies
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Rogers calls for broader architectural education
2 February 2012
Initial three-year course should also cover planning and landscape
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RCA appoints new head of architecture
1 February 2012
Charles Walker, the Canadian-born architect and structural engineer who has worked for both Zaha Hadid and Arup, has been made head of architecture at the Royal College of Art.
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Jeremy Till plans more architecture at Central St Martins
1 February 2012
New head insists he will not poach staff from Westminster
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Architecture school applications drop 16%
30 January 2012
Number of applicants down to 35,825
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Jeremy Till named new head of Central Saint Martins
27 January 2012
Tim Stonor made visiting professor at the Bartlett
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RIBA launches career advice services for aspiring architects
26 January 2012
Ken Shuttleworth, Barbara Weiss, Lee Polisano and Joanna van Heyningen offer advice
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Applications fall may see schools close, says Schosa
12 January 2012
Chair of organisation says schools that do not adapt to changing economic climate may have to shut down
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US architecture students face highest unemployment
10 January 2012
Data shows they fare worse than any other graduates
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Architecture applications drop 17.2%
5 January 2012
Latest Ucas figures show only 19,003 applications
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Bartlett student wins Silver Medal for Robots of Brixton
8 December 2011
Annual RIBA President’s Medals Student Awards announced
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Architecture student's design chosen for Olympic £5 coin
15 November 2011
Trainee at Birmingham School of Architecture picked for commemorative coin
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Bartlett lecturers join student protest
9 November 2011
Architecture lecturers join up to 10,000 students in march against fee rise
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Spiller hires ex Cabe chief to teach at Greenwich
4 November 2011
Richard Simmons appointed visiting professor
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Pavilion of Protest opens at RIBA
1 November 2011
Collaboration between Zap Architecture and Sheffield school of architecture
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Vent competition shortlist revealed
21 October 2011
Zap Architecture contest prompted by rising tuition fees
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Norwich University names architecture course leader
10 October 2011
Architect Adrian Friend has been appointed as course leader for the new BA Architecture course at Norwich University College of the Arts.
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Charter for architectural education to be thrashed out in soapbox debate
5 October 2011
What Now? and Zap Architecture join up to host event at RIBA
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HLM completes refurbishment of Sheffield's Arts Tower
22 September 2011
Architecture school returns to top of Britain’s tallest university building
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De Rijke reveals RCA overhaul strategy
16 September 2011
Architecture school plans fourfold expansion
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Putting it into practice
16 September 2011
Alex de Rijke’s appointment at the RCA heralds a welcome shift towards closer links between teaching and practice
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Alex de Rijke named dean of RCA architecture school
12 September 2011
Alex de Rijke, director of DRMM, has been appointed as dean of the school of architecture at the Royal College of Art (RCA).
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Architecture graduate Dan Wood named Britain's best dressed man
8 September 2011
Liverpool University graduate offers architects his top five fashion tips
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Architecture graduates create temporary timber installation
8 September 2011
Cluny Summer Pavilion built by local volunteers in five days
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Spiller lures Bartlett lecturers to Greenwich
2 September 2011
Neil Spiller has begun to raid his former school for new recruits, persuading two senior staff from the Bartlett to join their former boss at Greenwich University.
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Greenwich University must change course
2 September 2011
Neil Spiller’s actions at Greenwich University come as no real surprise (“Spiller wields axe” News August 26).
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Architecture students most satisfied at Northumbria University
31 August 2011
National student survey measures satisfaction with courses
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Greenwich University's Spiller wields axe over part-time staff
26 August 2011
P45s on their way as architecture head begins clearout of part-time lecturers
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Norwich launches architecture degree
26 August 2011
Norwich is to get its first architecture degree starting in 2012 at the Norwich University College of the Arts (NUCA).
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British student reaches final in mAAN Seoul Conference competition
24 August 2011
An architecture student from the University of East London has been shortlisted for an international student design competition and has flown out to Seoul to present it
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BD launches student blogger competition
19 August 2011
Bdonline is on the hunt for new writing talent to join our roster of bloggers and it could be you…
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80% of Greenwich University first-year students could be kicked off course
12 August 2011
New head of architecture cracks down after 117 fail first year courses
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UK student receives Fulbright Award to study architecture at Yale
2 August 2011
An employee at engineering and urbanism practice, Alan Baxter & Associates, has landed a coveted Fulbright Award to fund study architecture at Yale University. Jasdeep Bhalla has been awarded $25,000 of the $40,000 per-year course fees. During the first year of the three-year American Institute of Architects-accredited degree with Yale providing the $15,000 as part of a spearate scholarship. The university will cover 67% of the fees during the remaining two years, leaving ...
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Students ditch UK schools to go abroad
22 July 2011
Low fees, star lecturers and good facilities are proving increasingly attractive to British students.
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Mackintosh school gets new head
11 July 2011
Studio KAP director Christopher Platt appointed to the role following international search
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Architecture student shows 2011: Brighton School of Architecture
4 July 2011
Live projects, neighbourhood and the city were the themes for this Brighton’s 2011 graduate show
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Architecture student shows 2011: Sheffield Hallam University
1 July 2011
Final year architecture students from Sheffield Hallam University present architectural proposals within their home city
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Architecture student shows 2011: Liverpool School of Architecture
30 June 2011
This year a very challenging brief was set for BA3.
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Architecture student shows 2011: Portsmouth School of Architecture
29 June 2011
Portsmouth School of Architecture’s show this year is called ‘The Process of Architecture and Design’.
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Architecture student shows 2011: The Bartlett
28 June 2011
Highlights are many amongst the varied production of drawings, models, installations at this year’s show
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RIBA President's Awards for Research 2011 shortlist announced
27 June 2011
Thirteen projects nominated across three categories
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Architecture student shows 2011: Lincoln School of Architecture
24 June 2011
Lincoln School of Architecture’s end of year show themes include conflict, development, housing typology and relationships between science and religion
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Should part I be optional for architecture students?
24 June 2011
Yes, says Robert Mull, the current system has passed its sell-by date; while David Gloster says parts I and II have a symbiotic relationship
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Architecture student shows 2011: Northumbria University
23 June 2011
The students’ work continues the investigation of context and identity in the Northumbria region.
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Government tells RIBA: 'There are too many architects'
22 June 2011
“We’ve not been heard on tuition fees,” says Reed
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Could tough times spell the end of Archaos?
22 June 2011
There is a sense that students want a national student body with a wider membership
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Architecture student shows 2011: Leicester School of Architecture
22 June 2011
The 2011 Graduate School Degree Show at the Leicester School of Architecture features the final-year projects of over 50 architecture students.
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New Patel Taylor scheme for Essex University revealed
20 June 2011
Student centre and library extension follows firm’s previous Ivor Crewe lecture hall
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Do practices need to pay interns?
17 June 2011
As the debate on the ethics of unpaid placements continues, our experts review the implications for architects
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Learn from experience
17 June 2011
Trainees are becoming ever more flexible as they seek opportunities. Our assessment system should do the same
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Cardiff students build Japanese teahouse
15 June 2011
First and second year students at the Welsh School of Architecture, Cardiff University, have built a Japanese teahouse as part of the two-and-a-half-week-long Vertical Studios programme
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Nominations open for RIBA President’s Medals
13 June 2011
Student awards will be judged by leading architects and academics
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2011 Student Degree Show Listings
10 June 2011
The ultimate list of architecture degree show dates, times and locations
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New requirements for architecture students unveiled by the RIBA and Arb
10 June 2011
Changes introduce greater flexibility in terms of practical experience needed prior to Part III
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Education needs a total rethink
03 June 2011
After a three-year degree, part I graduates are pretty much useless to most practices as anything other than cad operators (“Cost of studying architecture ’tops £88,000’”, bdonline May 26).
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Future of architectural education up for debate in Madrid
1 June 2011
Representatives from the world’s top architecture schools to meet at the end of June
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Adam Architecture student prize open for entries
31 May 2011
Sixth year of practice’s £1,500 award
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RIBA hosts meeting on student support
27 May 2011
Students from UK architecture schools have been invited to a meeting hosted by the RIBA next month to discuss how the profession can support them.
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Glasgow seeks new head for Mac
27 May 2011
The Glasgow School of Art is seeking a new head for the Mackintosh School of Architecture following existing head David Porter’s decision to retire.
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Spanish summer school will explore implications of density
27 May 2011
Studio-based design workshop open to students from UK
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Cost of studying architecture 'tops £88,000'
26 May 2011
Survey inspires ’Pavilion of Protest’ artwork
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Suffolk student wins John Peel arts centre RIBA competition
25 May 2011
Matthew Loosley designed mezzanine level for Stowmarket’s Corn Exchange
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Westminster architecture school secures €1 million research grant
24 May 2011
Westminster University’s School of Architecture & the Built Environment has secured €1 million (£870,000) to investigate how limited global resources affect urban design
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Portsmouth students shortlisted for international competition
24 May 2011
Competition run by Robert Auzelle Seminar urban design organisation focuses on rediscovering forgotten spaces
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RIBA launches competition to redesign pylon
23 May 2011
Judging panel includes energy and climate secretary Chris Huhne
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RCA student Joseph Deane awarded RIBA Stephen Williams Scholarship 2011
11 May 2011
Royal College of Art student Joseph Deane has been awarded the third RIBA Stephen Williams Scholarship, to complete his Masters degree in Architecture
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Mumbai student wins Foster travelling scholarship
9 May 2011
Plan to study sanitation in eight cities impresses judges
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Nigel Coates retires from the Royal College of Art
5 May 2011
The Royal College of Art has confirmed that its head of architecture, Nigel Coates, is retiring after 16 years.
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Anger as Coates offers unpaid work at practice
21 April 2011
RCA architecture professor insists move does not involve exploitation
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RIBA London pays homage to Skylon on Southbank
20 April 2011
The RIBA is set to take part in the 60th anniversary celebrations at the Southbank Centre this summer with the installation of a temporary bandstand designed by students.
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Students invited to design John Peel arts centre
13 April 2011
RIBA competition winner will work with Martindales Architects on Suffolk project
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New architecture school head for Birmingham City University
4 April 2011
Ex-student and acting deputy head Kevin Singh appointed to role
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RIBA pledges to kick out wage abuse firms
1 April 2011
Brady promises to ’go after’ practices that fail to pay students at least minimum wage
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Students vote against Brett Steele's reappointment at AA
22 February 2011
“Overwhelming majority” of students voting say director’s contract is not valid and will not be recognised
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Call out for student bloggers
4 February 2011
Are you a part 1, part 2 or part 2 student (or somewhere in between) and just itching to get things off your chest?
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RIBA launches student competition
28 January 2011
RIBA Competitions and housing association Affinity Sutton have launched a design ideas competition for part II architectural students based on the London Housing Design Guide.
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Institute to reconsider scrapping RIBA Trust
27 January 2011
…as RIBA faces new criticism over funding for Young Practitioners Panel
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Newcastle’s Grad scheme sets pace for recruitment
21 January 2011
A scheme helping unemployed architecture graduates find work is being hailed as a model of how architecture schools and practices can help students gain access to the profession.
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Student wins historic building award for second year running
19 January 2011
Plans to transform Victorian brickworks impress judges
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Architecture students invited to apply for summer school bursary
11 January 2011
Student workshop with architect Piers Taylor and architect and timber specialist Charley Brentnall
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Campaign for part II funding raises concern
16 December 2010
The Riba and the heads of the architecture schools have been forced to defend their decision to lobby government to continue to fund part II but not part I architecture courses.
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Students at London Met and the RCA join fees protest
8 December 2010
Architecture students are stepping up their protests at the planned rise in tuition fees by occupying student campuses and preparing to take to the streets ahead of Thursday’s vote on the issue by MPs.
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Bartlett students protest increases in tuition fees
1 December 2010
Architecture students from the Bartlett are into their second week of a sit-in at the main UCL building in central London.
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Riba President's Medals Student Awards announced
25 November 2010
The Riba and Atkins have announced the winner of this year’s President’s Medals Students Awards, in which 270 Schools of Architecture took part.
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World's first business of architecture degree launched
18 November 2010
The world’s first architectural masters degree combining design with management has been launched by a Spanish university in collaboration with the Royal College of Art and New London Architecture.
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Foster launches 2011 travelling scholarship
10 November 2010
Applications for the 2011 RIBA Norman Foster Travelling Scholarship have opened.
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RIBA President's Awards for Research announced
20 October 2010
The RIBA has announced its President’s Awards for Research 2010, which reward and encourage outstanding research in architecture.
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School heads’ fury over Browne report
15 October 2010
Only the rich will be able to afford to study architecture, Schosa warns government
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MP queries hefty second degree fees
8 October 2010
The case of a young designer whose attempt to retrain as an architect has been thwarted by a rule that would force him to pay sky-high fees has prompted his MP to ask the further education minister to investigate.
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SPAB Awards seek student ideas
10 September 2010
Architecture students are being invited to enter an awards competition celebrating innovation and conservation.
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Architectural education needs change, says Neil Spiller
25 August 2010
Former Bartlett tutor Neil Spiller is as apprehensive as the freshers as he embarks on his new role as head of Architecture & Construction at the University of Greenwich.
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Bartlett’s Neil Spiller appointed school of architecture head at the University of Greenwich
19 August 2010
The University of Greenwich has appointed the Bartlett’s Neil Spiller as head of its school of architecture and construction.
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NLA student winner takes on Chelsea Barracks
3 August 2010
Royal College of Art graduate Stuart Evans has been named as the winner of this year’s New London Architecture student prize.
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Students battle for health awards
22 July 2010
Architects for Health has announced a 10-strong shortlist for its annual student design award.
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Steven Byrne - University of Strathclyde
16 July 2010
The project is a response developed from investigations of how architecture might react to rising sea levels with particuIar focuson coastal Bangladesh where flooding is already a major concern.
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Odel Jeffries, Will Notley, Cian Mckay, Harjeet Suri, Toby Pear and Audrey Lematte - London Metropolitan University
16 July 2010
This group of six students spent the past year working together on both live and theoretical projects in India.
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Andrew David Green- Lincoln School of Architecture
16 July 2010
A collection of 20th century novels provide the conceptual basis of Green’s thesis, where the scheme takes the form of a state university library and archive, proposed for a site in Yerevan, Armenia.
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Jonathan Pickford - University of Plymouth
16 July 2010
Jonathan’s proposal acts to stimulate economic growth, ecological sustainability, and recognises the significance of cultural identity in the regeneration of Riga’s redundant port of Andrejsala.
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Stefan Rust – Newcastle University
16 July 2010
The project is located within the ruins of an abandoned and silver smelting works at Silverberg in the Dalarna region of Sweden. The proposal divides the site into two main areas, Public zone and Private zone, broken by a stream but connected by bridge.
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Christina Gaiger - University of Edinburgh
14 July 2010
Christina proposes a park and series of buildings in strategically located places along the riverbanks of Florence, interweaving historical and contemporary narratives to the context and setting.
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Jonathan Schofield - Westminster University
02 July 2010
Since the closure of the Royal docks, Silvertown in East London went from being part of the largest dock in the world to a ghost town, a place of memory.
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Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL
5 July 2010
Within the UCL’s main quadrangle, and Slade Galleries, the mood was perfectly captured on a warm summer’s evening, with everyone cooling down after a hard year’s work.
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Architectural Association
5 July 2010
“An experimental school, experiments through making.” So says Brett Steele at the ever-popular opening of the AA Project Review.
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London Metropolitan University
5 July 2010
On arrival to the London Metropolitan University architecture show, you are greeted by an expanse of drab, rectilinear models and mundane elevation drawings.
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Strathclyde University Review
5 July 2010
Altruistic, practical and insightful is how one may describe the students of the advanced architectural design (AAD) programme at the University of Strathclyde.
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London mayor opens roof-top green research centre
5 July 2010
The UK’s first inner-city green technology research centre has been officially opened by London mayor Boris Johnson.
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Chetwood's student display space opens
5 July 2010
Work by architectural students has gone on display at Chetwood Associates’ free exhibition space in east London.
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Thomas Phillips- University of East London
02 July 2010
The Strata project is concerned with creating new types of social interaction and blurring the boundaries between exhibition and studio.at the new Greenwich University Institute of Fine Art on Greenwich peninsula in London.
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RIBA boss tells graduates to stop moaning and get creative
28 June 2010
The chief executive of the RIBA, Harry Rich, has warned the next generation of practitioners to be creative during the recession or suffer the consequences.
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On the art of surviving degree shows
25 June 2010
It’s no wonder parents of architecture students feel bewildered at graduation shows
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Gradon Architecture backs student project in Uganda
21 June 2010
A fledgling architectural practice in Tyne & Wear and 12 students from Newcastle University have joined forces to help build a children’s village for Aids orphans in Uganda.
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Belsay Fellowship awarded to architecture student
7 June 2010
Newcastle University architecture student Ciarán Treanor has won the prestigious Belsay Fellowship which allows young artists to exhibit their work alongside leading contemporary artists.
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Student wins AF travel bursary
21 May 2010
Manchester School of Architecture student Nandi Marshal Han has won this year’s student travel award organised by the Architecture Foundation
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Students win HTA placement
14 May 2010
Two architectural students from Oxford Brookes University have won a student ideas competition to design a contemporary affordable housing scheme.
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Chetwoods offers students and new architects free London work space
4 May 2010
Chetwood Associates is opening up its offices to students and newly qualified architects who need a London base as they try to establish themselves.
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Traditionalist practice invites applications for travel scholarship
23 April 2010
Adam Architecture, previously known as Robert Adam Architects, has issued a call for entries for its student travel scholarship.
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AA student wins university accommodation competition
16 April 2010
An Architectural Association student has won a competition to design a concept for the future of student accommodation.
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Grand gesture to hard-up students
14 April 2010
RIBA’s student hardship fund has received a £1,000 boost from the Worshipful Company of Chartered Architects after BD reported it was perilously low on cash.
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Polyark this week: New giveaway and the conceptual refurbishment of Job Centre Plus
13 April 2010
Kasia Bernas' intriguing conceptual redevelopment of a Scottish Job Centre Plus was among the images to grab Polyark's attention this week.
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Polyark this week; Man vs Nature and David Chipperfield Architects visit Portsmouth
6 April 2010
Polyark welcomes a small flurry of new members from Portsmouth School of Architecture this week.Unsurprisingly, most of them are signing up to attend the forthcoming lecture at their university by Andrew Phillips of David Chipperfield Architects on April 15.
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Students invited to join with hundreds of others at Manchester event
31 March 2010
30th European Architecture Students Asembly to be held in the UK this summer
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Polyark this week: The Radiance Resort and CJ Lim
26 March 2010
Polyark welcome a number of new members this week, including the RCA’s Rachel Harding who shared images of a project aimed at making the public more open to the idea of radiation having health benefits.
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Polyark this week: The Great Central Railway, Zoetropes and Strathclyde University
12 March 2010
Christopher Vansittart's album 'Polyark Mapping' was one of the images that caught Polyark's watchful eye this week, with his group work exploring the great central railway from Leicester to Loughborough.
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RIBA’s student hardship fund is set to run dry
12 March 2010
Record number of applications means institute will turn down people in genuine need
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Polyark this week: A Birmingham glass works project and a new embassy concept for Rome
8 March 2010
This week Polyark makes a visit to Chance Glass factory on the outskirts and Birmingham and also rethinks the concept of an embassy into a one-stop shop of culture.
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Aberdeen graduates visualise controversial City Square project
3 March 2010
A group of young graduates have created a series of visualisations of how the controversial £140 million redevelopment of Aberdeen’s Union Terrace Gardens could look.
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Polyark this week: Curzon Street Station, dystopian London and iconic architecture
1 March 2010
This week's Polyark update sees a photographic tour of the Polyark II exhibition that opened last week at Strathclyde University, a dystopic vision of London and a discussion on what makes an icon.
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Entries open for station and housing student competitions
26 February 2010
Two design competitions for students were launched this week, both with work at architectural practices as the prize.
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Polyark this week: Parasites, Edinburgh trains and architectural heroes
22 February 2010
One thing that caught our eye this week was Ralph Furulund's Eco House competition submission entitled "The Eco-Parasite". Rather than the hapless host being we humans, the victims this time are environmentally unsound or derelict buildings.
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Student travel award opens for entries
17 February 2010
The KPF/Architecture Foundation Student Travel Award is returning for its sixth year.
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Polyark this week: A Polyark themed ceilidh, Hammersmith surgery visit and Modernism- dead or alive?
15 February 2010
Students go head to head over modernism, don their kilts for a Polyark ceilidh and put a house call into Hammersmith surgery, in this week's Polyark update
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Entries open for RIBA research awards
10 February 2010
Entries are now open for the RIBA President's Awards for Research, which recognise outstanding research in architecture.
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Polyark this week:The Great Central Railway, Strathclyde and Valencia
8 February 2010
In every Monday's newsletter we will be keeping you regularly updated with the highlights of what happening on Polyark, the newly launched student networking site.
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Students urged to design for death
4 February 2010
Architects for Health has launched its third annual student design awards with a brief titled Designing for Death: Hell, Purgatory and Paradise.
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RIBA launches new student bursaries
26 January 2010
The RIBA has launched two new funding schemes for architecture students.
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Student wins competition to redesign New York’s ‘sidewalk sheds’
22 January 2010
A first-year architecture student has won a $10,000 international competition to redesign New York’s “sidewalk sheds”.
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BD launches Student Space
15 January 2010
Today we are launching a new bdonline section: Student Space.
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Demand for architecture to be taught in schools
15 January 2010
Construction diploma’s popularity triggers debate over curriculum
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Young people signing up for construction diploma doubles
11 January 2010
The number of young people signing up to study for a Diploma in Construction & the Built Environment has doubled
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'Climate of fear' over student visas
7 January 2010
New stricter monitoring of university students attendance is fostering a climate of fear and paranoia among architecture students, it was claimed this week.
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Sheffield architecture student wins video competition
17 December 2009
An architecture student at Sheffield University has won a £3,000 video competition on YouTube.
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Bartlett school names Cruz as new director
15 December 2009
Marcos Cruz has been appointed director of the UCL Bartlett School of Architecture. He will take up his new post on January 1.
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Boost for global bursaries
10 December 2009
Students and young architects wanting to work in the developing world have had their chances boosted after the annual funding for the dedicated RIBA/Institution of Civil Engineers bursary was doubled.
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Cambridge students build cardboard pavilion
10 December 2009
This cardboard pavilion was designed and built by Cambridge students to host their start of term opening party.
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Westminster double for RIBA student medals
3 December 2009
The RIBA has announced the winners of the President’s Medals Student Awards, which promote excellence in the study of architecture.
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Nottingham students let the sunshine in
13 November 2009
The university team’s solar-powered house will be the UK’s only entry for 2010’s Solar Decathlon in Madrid
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Backlash at plans to cut Scottish architecture schools' funding
12 November 2009
Proposals to cut funding for Scottish architecture schools have prompted an angry response from architects.
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Architecture graduate unemployment soars
6 November 2009
Unemployment levels among architecture graduates have more than quadrupled in a year according to new figures released this week by the Higher Education Careers Services Unit (Hecsu)
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Unemployment triples for new architecture graduates
2 November 2009
The number of new architecture graduates unable to find work has almost tripled in the past year.
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Architectural Association open day series
26 October 2009
The Architectural Association School of Architecture is to hold open events for prospective diploma and foundation year students.
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Students invited to participate in 2010 London Festival of Architecture
26 October 2009
The brief for the International Architecture Student Festival 2010 has been announced by the London Festival of Architecture.
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Architecture student wins Women in Property award
28 September 2009
Anjna Farmah, a second-year architecture student at Birmingham Institute of Art and Design, has been named as Women in Property’s “Best of the Best”.
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BD's Class of 2009 awards the UK's top six graduating students
31 July 2009
Each year, BD asks every architecture school in the country to nominate its best graduating diploma student for consideration in our annual awards.
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Student shows: Kent School of Architecture
13 July 2009
Judging from the work on display this year, the school encourages self-generated as well as directed assignments, allowing the students the opportunity to think twice: what is expected from me? What do I expect?
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Alastair Parvin: University of Sheffield
10 July 2009
Alastair Parvin's re-imagines a section of the M1 as a self-sufficient farming system.
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Benjamin Whitehead: Brighton University
10 July 2009
Benjamin Whitehead's Blackfriars market interchange interweaves transport routes through a stock trading floor and food market whilst creating a series of public spaces within the St Paul's viewing corridor.
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Cameron McEwan: Dundee University
10 July 2009
Cameron McEwan's mixed use scheme in the centre of Dundee is configured in relation to the Fibonacci series.
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Chris Jackson: Liverpool John Moores University
10 July 2009
Chris Jackson's Oceanic Observatory provides space for the development of sea-based renewables, as well as galleries, accommodation and a permanent dock for Liverpool University's research vessel.
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Colin Wharry: London Metropolitan School of Architecture
10 July 2009
Colin Wharry imagines the re-use of a central London car park after peak oil has left the structure a relic of carbon-driven economy.
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Dan Moor: Bath University
10 July 2009
Dan Moor's masterplan redevelopment of Bristol's wharf frontage envisages a city coming to terms with its involvement in the transatlantic slave trade.
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Greig Penny: Scott Sutherland School of Architecture
10 July 2009
Greig Penny's community and learning centre seeks to ground itself in its small historic fishing town landscape.
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Jacob Hussey: Greenwich University
10 July 2009
Jacob Hussey's new school of architecture, adjacent to the Old Royal Naval College in Greenwich combines the educational and the historic.
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Jon David Morrison: Mackintosh School of Architecture
10 July 2009
Jon Morrison's Barcelona Museum of Water, conceived in response to the Catalan water crisis, investigates an alternative infrastructure for water and a new cultural institution.
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Joseph Richard Harris: Birmingham School of Architecture
10 July 2009
Joseph Harris's project is a series of interventions into war torn 1992 Sarajevo each demonstrating usage of the birch tree – from cigarette papers to setting broken bones.
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Liam Saunders: East London University
10 July 2009
Liam Saunders's Istanbul hotel and casino explores the relation of public and private space.
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Martin Graham: Strathclyde University
10 July 2009
Martin Graham's masterplan creates a new museum quarter and public park in a revitalisation of Glasgow's High Street.
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Matt Ault: Manchester School of Architecture
10 July 2009
Matt Ault explores issues in the resolution and realisation of contemporary architecture.
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Nicholas Szczepaniak: Westminster School of Architecture
10 July 2009
Nicholas Szczepaniak's austere coastal defence towers have multiple functions, from protection devices to knowledge repositories.
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Paolo Scianna: Kingston University
10 July 2009
Paolo Scianna's new public institute for Croydon explores what the city might learn from archetypal forms and spaces.
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Paul Kelsall: Nottingham University
10 July 2009
Paul Kelsall's design offers a reinterpretation of a Victorian Mechanics' Institute and investigates the relationship between the social and the technological.
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Ric Lipson: Bartlett School of Architecture
10 July 2009
Ric Lipson's sound pavilion allows users to experience the sounds of the city.
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Stephen Graham, David Shannon and Andrew Shaw: Liverpool School of Architecture
10 July 2009
The Liverpool student team have offered a provocative counter-proposal to a central Liverpool site earmarked for commercial retail development.
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UK architectural schools nominate their best graduating students
10 July 2009
Once again, BD has asked every one of the UK's architecture schools to submit their top diploma student for consideration in our annual student awards.
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Student shows: The Bartlett School of Architecture
7 July 2009
The Bartlett Show is impressive. The level and quantity of dexterity on display is extraordinary and presumably this is but a small proportion of the year’s work.
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New wave hits Bedford Square
3 July 2009
This year’s Architectural Association Summer Pavilion opens today at Bedford Square
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Student shows: Canterbury School of Architecture
03 July 2009
Canterbury students’ innovative and far-reaching approach to regeneration is impressive
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Student shows: Kingston School of Architecture
03 July 2009
It’s too early to tell how head of school Daniel Rosbottom’s new regime is bedding in, but change is definitely in the air
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Student shows: London Metropolitan School of Architecture
03 July 2009
Architecture students at London Met have struck a good balance between creativity and practicality
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Excluded student wins Kingston place
26 June 2009
A student who was kicked out of mainstream education but went on to win a place on Kingston’s Architecture degree course has won a major national award for his efforts
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RIBA unveils new hardship scheme for students
25 June 2009
The RIBA has unveiled a new hardship scheme for students, the Walter Parker Bursary, which will provide 40 bursaries of £500 to help Part 1 students in professional experience.
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Sheffield student scoops Part Two scholarship
22 June 2009
Sheffield University student Laura Collins has won the inaugural RIBA Stephen Williams Scholarship to finish her Part Two studies during the forthcoming academic year.
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Positive signs in RIBA trend survey but students hit hard
17 June 2009
The RIBA’s latest Future Trends survey shows tentative green shoots for the industry after months of gloom.
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Architecture is most exclusive profession
12 June 2009
It costs more to qualify than in any other sector (and the salary is rubbish)
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Is this the worst year to be an architecture graduate?
12 June 2009
No, says Peter Murray, previous recessions have proved highly creative for architecture – a view which Jeremy Till considers elitist and not taking into account the far higher levels of student debt
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Graduates: how to work and claim
8 May 2009
Unemployed architecture graduates looking for practical experience after completing part I will be able to undertake an unpaid placement of up to 13 weeks without forfeiting their £64.30 jobseeker’s allowance, under new rules
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Deluge of entries expected for Glasgow School of Art competition
30 April 2009
A competition to design a new building for the Glasgow School of Art has attracted unprecedented levels of interest, with the organiser predicting possible success for a young practice.
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Manchester students win Cisco sustainable communities competition
23 March 2009
Two students from Manchester University’s School of Architecture have won the Cisco 2020 sustainable communities competition.
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Call for schools to relax work experience rules
20 March 2009
The Association of Consultant Architects has called on schools of architecture to urgently drop work experience as a part II entry requirement, as recession-hit students struggle to find placements.
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Time to rethink the year out
20 March 2009
With work placements, architecture schools should be more flexible in how students occupy the year between parts I and II
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Applications for architecture degrees rocket
18 February 2009
The number of students applying to study architecture at undergraduate level has rocketed by almost 2000 in a year despite the onset of the recession.
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London Met architecture department could be forced to cut staff
5 February 2009
London Metropolitan University could be forced into cutting staff from its renowned department of architecture after a financial blunder by the institution.
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RIBA/Foster £6,000 architecture travel scholarship now to be awarded annually
19 January 2009
The RIBA’s Norman Foster Travelling Scholarship for students is to be awarded each year following an extra £100,000 endowment from Foster & Partners.
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Cambridge anger over Schosa table
16 January 2009
Cambridge School of Architecture has hit out at school heads organisation Schosa over its interpretation of the latest official rankings of research performance.
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Should architecture schools care about league tables?
16 January 2009
Yes, says Westminster University’s Murray Fraser, they help raise the bar all round; no, says Lincoln School of Architecture’s Nicholas Temple, they are convenient but give too narrow a view
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Architecture schools excel in rankings
09 January 2009
Assessment shows major improvement in schools’ research performance
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Students called to design sustainable community
09 January 2009
Technology giant Cisco has launched a competition for architecture graduates and undergraduates to design the “connected community of the future”
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Counterterrorism competition blasted
21 November 2008
Gough asks students to boycott contest that ‘propogates paranoia’
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Part-time architecture education in question after EU ruling
18 November 2008
Arb is seeking legal advice over a new EU directive that could prevent those who studied part time being recognised as architects.
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RIBA joins forces with recruitment firm for new part II bursary
23 October 2008
The RIBA has launched an annual £10,000 bursary scheme for promising but hard-up architecture students.
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Students hit first by recession
24 October 2008
Record numbers of graduates are chasing fast-disappearing jobs in recession-struck practices. Will Henley lends an ear
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Student's 'chip shop' pier design wins competition
21 October 2008
A pier design inspired by a chip shop and a tea house has won the top award in a student competition to design a water feature for New Brighton in Merseyside.
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Young designers challenged to 'fix our energy addiction'
24 September 2008
A £5,000 competition run by Metropolis, a New York design magazine is challenging young designers to 'fix our energy addiction'.
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Virtual Graduate Fair for architecture students launches
22 September 2008
A three-day Virtual Grad Fair for those interested in the built environment industry has been launched by the publishers of BD.
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Are architecture schools turning into factory farms?
05 September 2008
The uniform teaching programme of many schools will create “tasteless chickens”, says Tim Ronalds; while Richard Hayward argues that schools remain almost entirely free-range
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Architecture degrees leap in popularity
05 September 2008
The annual number of students applying to study architecture has jumped by almost 10,000 in the past four years, making architecture degrees more popular than ever.
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Class of 2007: Where are they now?
19 August 2008
Every year BD holds its 'Class of' awards to identify the brightest upcoming architectural talent. With 2008's winners unveiled, Emily Cadman looks up a few of last year's winners to see how they've fared.
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Entering another digital design dimension at the University of Bath
15 August 2008
From 3D modelling to design practice, the University of Bath is sharpening its digital skills, say Andrew Watts and Paul Shepherd
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BD's Class of 2008 is going places
8 August 2008
From exotic spots such as Istanbul and Rome to more domestic locations such as Sheffield and Whitstable, the ambitions of BD’s five graduating diploma student award winners were scattered far and wide this year. Ellis Woodman, BD’s buildings editor, looks at what marked them out
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Newcastle architecture students take on the capital at Dreamspace Gallery
7 August 2008
Adrem’s Dreamspace Gallery near Old Street in central London is hosting an exhibition of work by graduating part II students from Newcastle University’s School of Architecture.
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Design entrepreneur competition deadline looms
7 August 2008
There is a week to go before entries close for UK Young Design Entrepreneur of the Year 2008 (UKYDE).
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Are architecture students facing a fragile jobs market?
8 August 2008
Yes, says Portsmouth School of Architecture’s Pam Cole, we’re heading out of the comfort zone of the past few years; no, says Flacq director Marcus Lee, it’s just a question of persistence
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BD brings you 'The Swoosh' (video)
31 July 2008
The 2008 AA Pavilion Video is brought to you by Finnforest.
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Prasad lays into education
25 July 2008
Architecture schools are out of touch, he tells Oxford Conference
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Nottingham student takes Corus student architecture award
23 July 2008
Nottingham, Cardiff and Southampton students triumph at the 2008 Corus Student Design Awards.
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Best in show
11 July 2008
BD concludes the round-up of student work from the architecture schools’ end-of-year exhibitions. Ed Frith, Gerrard O’Carroll, James Payne and Peter Wilson report
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Portsmouth School of Architecture Blog 2008
9 July 2008
Third year architecture student Vinesh Pomal takes a look at his fellow students' third year and diploma shows at Portsmouth University.
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Student summer shows at the Bartlett, Canterbury, London Met & Edinburgh
04 July 2008
Wild and practical imaginations fused with inspiring teaching have produced another excellent vintage.
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'Swoosh' pavilion swoops into view at the AA
27 June 2008
The AA’s 2008 summer pavilion lands in Bedford SquarePhotos by Sue Barr and AA students
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The challenge for Oxford
13 June 2008
Next month’s debate on architectural education must accept that professional boundaries are a thing of the past
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Questioning the Oxford agenda
13 June 2008
Heads of four architecture schools respond to to last week’s setting-out of the issues for next month’s Oxford Conference, and argue that sustainability is not the only game in town
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Schools strike back at call to change curriculum
13 June 2008
Sustainability shouldn’t be the only challenge for architecture schools, say educators
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Architectural education: the 1958 Oxford Conference revisited
06 June 2008
Architecture schools must meet the challenge of sustainability if they are to survive, delegates at July’s Oxford Conference will hear. This week, four leading figures — Susan Roaf, Christopher Alexander, Rab Bennetts and Steven Parissien — say why change is needed. Next week, the schools respond
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Till to quit Sheffield for Westminster dean role
06 June 2008
Jeremy Till is to become dean at the University of Westminster’s school of architecture and the built environment.
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Eisenman: computers dumb down design
16 May 2008
Peter Eisenman used the platform at RIAS 2008 to bemoan a culture of passivity among students of architecture
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Have computers damaged architects’ design quality?
16 May 2008
Yes, as students lose drawing skills and the feel for a building, says Peter Eisenmann; No, look at the concepts they open architects’ minds to, says Neil Spiller
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Students show social projects
16 May 2008
An exhibition of student projects funded by the RIBA/ICE McAslan bursary will be held at the Dreamspace Gallery at recruitment firm Adrem during this year’s London Festival of Architecture.
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The mighty Swoosh
20 March 2008
This year’s AA summer pavilion will be a complex interlocking timber structure, dubbed the “Swoosh”.
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London Met student wins travel award for Soho courtyard scheme
13 March 2008
London Metropolitan University student Alex Bank has won the Architecture Foundation and KPF’s public space travel scholarship.
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RIBA launches President’s Awards for Research 2008
3 March 2008
RIBA has put out a call for entries for its 2008 award for architectural research.
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Last chance to apply for Riba ICE McAslan Bursary
18 February 2008
Applications for the Riba ICE McAslan Bursary, which supports environmental or community-focused schemes in deprived areas of the UK or overseas close on March 3.
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Overseas students to take a stand
19 October 2007
Overseas students have been urged to make a stand against the “unfairness” of Arb’s prescribed exam by backing a proposed independent review panel.
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Does the UK have too many schools of architecture?
27 July 2007
New courses are eroding the value of the title ‘architect’ says Richard Weston; while David Gloster argues that the quality can be maintained
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The class divide in Britain's architecture schools
27 July 2007
ANALYSIS: BD's survey of student pass rates shows a widening gap between best and worst DEBATE: Are there too many schools?LEADER: Saturation means falling standards
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Missing the mark
27 July 2007
Architecture courses are booming, but do low pass rates indicate an unacceptable drop in standards?
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Radical approach to cities rethinks the urban myths
20 July 2007
The greatest reward of this strong but sometimes reiterative show is its revolutionary study of cities and regeneration.
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The Bartlett’s blog
18 July 2007
The Barlett selects its own highlights from its summer show, which this year included work from over 450 students.
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Aberdeen University blog
18 July 2007
Images from the degree show at the Scott Sutherland school of architecture and built environment at Aberdeen’s Robert Gordon University.
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Belfast shows rare flashes of quality
13 July 2007
Queens University Belfast
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Best from the Bartlett
13 July 2007
Ed Frith reviews the Bartlett's summer show
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London Met shows its class
13 July 2007
London Metropolitan University reviewed by Ellie Duffy
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Lincoln School of Architecture blog
11 July 2007
A glass recycling centre, a prison and a surf shack are among the third year studio projects completed at Lincoln this year
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Portsmouth University blog
10 July 2007
The landscape of Hampshire's chalk downlands and the Roman city inform Portsmouth students' explorations of landscape and urbanism, writes Hannah Young
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Sheffield school's gems are well hidden
06 July 2007
The spotlight is on Sheffield in the latest of BD's student show reports, reviewed by Philip Bintlif
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Greenwich University's summer show blog
29 June 2007
Greenwich contributes to our summer show blog with student work inspired by Farnsworth House, World War II bunkers in Harwich and the Ledbury Estate
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Shampoo and set
29 June 2007
Inspired by the tedious business of drying her hair, AA student Margaret Dewhurst’s winning pavilion for the school’s summer show is now being built
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Student shows: The Mac and the RCA
29 June 2007
BD's reviewers are impressed by stunning work at the RCA and a strong endeavour at the Mac
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Arb plans part III shake-up
08 June 2007
Critics say proposed changes would reduce emphasis on practical skills
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The shortlisted entries in the AA's summer pavilion competition
29 March 2007
View images of the winning design and other shortlisted entries to the competition now in its second year
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Anonymous Architecture
27 March 2007
UEL Masters student Theo Honohan explores the inconsistency in architects' desire for anonymity in his latest posting for Student Space
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The art of living
13 March 2007
As architects we are intrigued with the idea of erasure. This year we are looking at how we live, and questioning the inessentials. It is through the practice of erasure that we allow room for history and process to be in evidence with the present, if ever so subtle. A way of working that allows for all the ambiguity and complexity of a place to coexist with a new situation.
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Faust in East London: Space and the subconscious
23 February 2007
Eleni Raptopoulou and Demetra Koutsoukou give an architectural take on "Installation theatre" outfit Punchdrunk's production of Faust
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Who I am or who I can be is relevant to where I am
23 February 2007
PhD student Betty Nigianni discusses the importance of place to the architect
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The new New Objectivity
23 February 2007
MA Architecture student Theo Honohan gives a personal interpretation of UEL's architecture programme
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Students from the University of East London
16 February 2007
The first guest editors of BD's student space were from the University of East London. Read blogs and essays from Fanny Galvan, Hassan Ali, Dave Edwards and masters student Theo Honohan.
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Building on the future
14 July 2006
The AA pavilion has taken students from writing their own bespoke software to building at 1:1 scale. Unit 2’s tutors — Martin Self and Charles Walker of Arup’s Advanced Geometry Unit — look back on a learning experience
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Nice model, let’s hire them
14 July 2006
With the market booming and fresh talent in high demand, bosses are taking the lead and targeting the student shows. Zoë Blackler goes on a scout at the AA
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On the cutting room floor
23 June 2006
The AA student summer pavilion is a work of fractal geometry in wood. Elaine Knutt tells us how they did it
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Branching out
5 May 2006
For years the AA has been using the Serpentine pavilion as a teaching tool, but this summer a group of its students will build their own structure out of timber and construct it outside the school in Bedford Square. Elaine Knutt looks at the winning scheme and the runners-up
