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Peter Barber becomes a Royal Academician

By 2022-01-28T11:39:00

Peter Barber AYA 2016 masterplanning

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Social housing architect Peter Barber has been elected a Royal Academician.

He joins the likes of Niall McLaughlin, Farshid Moussavi, David Adjaye, Eva Jiricna and David Chipperfield as architects who have received the honour.

Barber, who received an OBE and the RIBA Neave Brown Award for Housing last year, is one of three new academicians, along with painter Michael Armitage and sculptor Ryan Gander.

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