RIBA International Honorary Fellowships 2019 announced

The Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) has today (Thursday 1 November) announced the 2019 RIBA International Fellowships which will be awarded to 7 architects from across the globe.

RIBA International Fellowships 2019 revealed

RIBA International Fellows are awarded annually to architects outside the United Kingdom who are not UK citizens. They are awarded to people who have made a major contribution to the world of design and in particular architecture.

The RIBA's 2019 International Fellowships will be awarded to:

Frida Escobedo – Frida Escobedo Architecture Studio, Mexico

Poul Ove Jensen – DISSING+WEITLING architecture, Denmark

Michael Murphy and Alan Ricks – MASS Design Group, USA

Neri Oxman – MIT Media Lab, USA

Emilio Tuñón – Tuñón Architects, Spain

Ignacio Vicens y Hualde – Vicens + Ramos Architects, Spain

The lifetime honour allows recipients to use the initials Int FRIBA after their name.

The 2019 RIBA International Fellowships will be presented at a special event at the RIBA in London in February 2019.

The 2019 RIBA Honours Committee who selected the 2019 Fellows was chaired by RIBA President Ben Derbyshire (Chair); Lady Patty Hopkins (RIBA Gold Medallist 1994), Professor Bob Shiel (Bartlett School of Architecture), Wasfi Kani (Honorary Fellow 2018) and Pat Woodward (RIBA and Matthew Lloyd Architects).

The Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) has today (Thursday 1 November) announced the 2019 RIBA Honorary Fellowships, which will be awarded to individuals from a diverse spectrum of backgrounds, including museums and galleries, healthcare, architectural history and design.

RIBA Honorary Fellowships are awarded annually to people who are not architects but have made a particular contribution to architecture. This includes individuals who have advanced its role in creating more sustainable communities, those involved in its promotion and management and those who nurture the interests of future generations.

The 2019 RIBA Honorary Fellowships will be awarded to:

Robert Ball – Chief Executive, Architects Benevolent Society

James Carpenter – Artist and designer

Beatrice Fraenkel – Chairman, Mersey Care NHS Foundation and Past Chair of the Architects Registration Board and also the Liverpool Ropewalks Partnership.

Sarah Gaventa – Director, Illuminated River Foundation, and past CABE Director

Zina Jardaneh – Chair of the Board, Palestinian Museum

Eusebio Leal Spengler – Historian of Havana City

His Highness Sheikh Dr Sultan bin Mohammed al-Qasimi – Ruler of Sharjah, UAE

Yana Peel – CEO, Serpentine Galleries and Founder of the V&A’s Design Fund

Lynne Walker – Architectural Historian, University of London

The lifetime honour allows recipients to use the initials Hon FRIBA after their name.

The 2019 RIBA Honorary Fellowships will be presented at a special event at the RIBA in London in February 2019.

The 2019 RIBA Honours Committee who selected the 2019 Fellows was chaired by RIBA President Ben Derbyshire; Lady Patty Hopkins (RIBA Gold Medallist 1994), Professor Bob Shiel (Bartlett School of Architecture), Wasfi Kani (Honorary Fellow 2018) and Pat Woodward (RIBA and Matthew Lloyd Architects).

RIBA Honorary Fellowships 2019 announced

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NERI OXMAN

Neri Oxman is the Sony Corporation Career Development professor and assistant professor of Media Arts and Sciences at the MIT Media Lab, where she founded and directs the Mediated Matter design research group. Her group explores how digital design and fabrication technologies mediate between matter and environment to radically transform the design and construction of objects, buildings, and systems. Her goal is to enhance the relationship between the built and the natural environments by employing design principles inspired by nature and implementing them in the invention of novel digital design technologies. Areas of application include product and architectural design, as well as digital fabrication and construction.

Oxman was named to ICON's list of the top 20 most influential architects to shape our future (2009), and was selected as one of the 100 most creative people by FASTCOMPANY (2009). In 2008, she was named "Revolutionary Mind" by SEED Magazine. Her work has been exhibited at MoMA (NYC) and is part of the museum's permanent collection. In 2012 the Centre Georges Pompidou Museum (Paris, France) acquired her works for its permanent collection. Other exhibitions include the Smithsonian Institute (Washington, DC), Museum of Science (Boston, MA), FRAC Collection (Orleans, France), and the 2010 Beijing Biennale. She is included in prestigious private collections and has received numerous awards including a 40 Under 40 Building Design + Construction Award (2012), a Graham Foundation Carter Manny Award (2008), the International Earth Award for Future-Crucial Design (2009), and a METROPOLIS Next Generation Award (2009).

Neri Oxman received her PhD in design computation as a Presidential Fellow at MIT, where she developed the theory and practice of Material-based Design Computation. In this approach, the shaping of material structure is conceived of as a novel form of computation. Prior to MIT, she earned her diploma from the Architectural Association (RIBA 2) after attending the Faculty of Architecture and Town Planning at the Technion Israel Institute of Technology, and the Department of Medical Sciences at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. http://www.media.mit.edu/people/neri

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Frida Escobedo

Frida Escobedo López (b. 1979, Mexico City) founded her practice in 2006, after four years as co-director of the architectural firm Perro Rojo. Her award-winning work has focused mainly on reactivating urban spaces that are considered to be residual or forgotten.

In 2004 she was awarded the Scholarship for Young Creators by the National Fund for Arts and Culture (FONCA) and in 2008 she was selected by Herzog & de Meuron as one of the architectural studios to participate in the Ordos 100 Project in Inner Mongolia, China. In 2009, she was a winner of the Young Architects Forum, organised by the Architectural League of New York. In 2013, she was selected as one of the three finalists for the Architecture programme at the Rolex Mentor and Protégé Arts Initiative and was nominated for the Arc Vision Prize for Women and the Iakov Chernikhov Prize. In 2014, she was selected as a finalist for the Designs of the Year at the Design Museum in London and was nominated for the Mies Crown Hall Americas Prize of the Illinois Institute of Technology. In 2014, she won the Ibero-American Biennale of Architecture and Urbanism Prize (IX BIAU) in Rosario, Argentina. In 2017, she received the Emerging Voices Award by the Architectural League of New York.

Ignacio Vicens Hualde, José Antonio Ramos Abengózar. VICENS+RAMOS

Ignacio Vicens Hualde and José Antonio Ramos Abengózar, Ph.D. architects from the Higher Technical School of Architecture of Madrid (ETSAM), associated since the year 1984, they form the VICENS + RAMOS Architecture Studio at Calle Barquillo 29, 2º I in Madrid. They combine their professional practice with teaching Architectural Projects at ETSAM. They are directors of the Culture of Habitat research group and the Chair Blanca Cemex.

Among their works, singular single-family homes predominate, such as the Casa Ignacio Vicens Hualde and José Antonio Ramos Abengózar, Ph.D. architects from the Higher Technical School of Architecture of Madrid (ETSAM), associated since the year 1984, they form the VICENS + RAMOS Architecture Studio at Calle Barquillo 29, 2º I in Madrid.

Among the public buildings are the Faculty of Social Sciences in Pamplona, Navarra; the Nursing Home for the Little Sisters of the Abandoned Elderly, in Alcázar de San Juan, Ciudad Real, the offices of the “Santa Lucía Seguros” company in Madrid, the Coslada Social Services Center, the Aramon-Leitner buildings of the Expo Zaragoza and the Unibail-Rodanco Shopping Center in Palma de Mallorca.

Sacred architecture is especially important in the work of the VICENS + RAMOS studio, such as the Church of the Holy Trinity in Collado Villalba, Madrid; the Parroquia de Santa Mónica, in Rivas Vaciamadrid, Madrid, or the Centro Parroquial del Buen Pastor in Ponferrada, León, as well as the ephemeral architectures of the papal stands made during the Pope's visits to Madrid from 1982 to the present.

Currently there are various luxury housing projects underway of different typologies, such as the housing blocks in Puerto Cancún, Mexico and different villas in La Moraleja, Valdemarín and Marbella.s Mediterranean blankets from Ibiza and Almería, or the recent ones from Cortesin , in Malaga, the "Brick House" in El Mecachón, Las Herencias, Toledo; the “Rusty House” in Las Matas, Madrid, the “Stone House” in “Las Encinas”, Pozuelo de Alarcón, Madrid, the “Aluminum House” in Florida, Madrid, the “Wooden House” in Guadalmina , Marbella, Malaga, the "Glass House" in Ibiza, the "Concrete Houses" in La Moraleja, Puerta de Hierro and Pantano de San Juan. Materials that keep a very livable interior dominated by a careful work with light.

Arquitectos Tuñón

Emilio Tuñón Álvarez (1959) is an architect by ETSAM since 1981, PhD in Architecture since 2000 and Professor of Architectural Projects of the School of Architecture of Madrid since 2016. In 2014 he has been awarded the Gold Medal for Merit in Fine Arts by The Mies van der Rohe Prize 2007, the European Union 2007 Contemporary Architecture Prize, the Spanish National Architecture Prize 2003 and the FAD Awards 2001, 2007 and 2011.

Currently, Emilio Tuñón is Professor of the Department of Architectural Projects of the School of Architecture of Madrid (ETSAM) and has worked as a guest professor at numerous universities: Jean Labatout Professor at the Princeton University School of Architecture, Eliot Noyes Professor at the Graduate School of Architecture Design by Harvard, visiting professor at the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, and the Städelschule in Frankfurt.

Since 2007 Emilio Tuñón is the patron of the Arquia Foundation, awarded the gold medal of CSCAE in 2015.

Tuñón Arquitectos has been a winner in various public architectural competitions: First prize in the contest for the Masterplan of Kalaja and Turres Port, Albania (2014). First prize in the Down Town District Residental Tower contest in Dubai (2013). First prize in the contest for the Neubau Gastro-pavillon at the ETH in Zürich (2013). First prize in the competition for the Wine Dome in Valbuena de Duero (2012). First prize in the contest for the Museum Territorio de Migraciones in Algeciras (2008). First prize in the contest for the Museum of Visigothic Art in the Vega Baja de Toledo (2010). First prize in the competition for the Energy Summit in the City of the Environment of Soria (2008). First prize in the competition for the International Congress Center of the City of Madrid (2007). First prize in the contest for the Helga de Alvear Foundation in Cáceres (2005). First prize in the competition for the new building for the City Council of Lalín (2004). First prize in the competition for the remodeling of the Valbuena area in Logroño (2003). First prize in the competition for the Museum of Royal Collections (2002). First prize in the competition for the Museum of Cantabria (2002). First prize in the contest for Architectural Set dedicated to the Sanfermines (2001). First prize in the contest for the Center of Contemporary Art of Brescia (2000). First prize in the competition for the Museum of Fine Arts in Castellón (1997). First prize in the competition for the Auditorium of the city of León (1996). First prize in the contest for the Cultural Center of the Community of Madrid in the old factory "El Aguila" (1995).

Its projects and articles have been published by numerous national and international indexed journals, and his work is collected in numerous monographs, among which should be highlighted those published by AV Projects 65 in 2014 and the magazine El Croquis 161 in 2012, Mansilla + Tuñón Architects published by Edil Stampa in 2012, AV Monographs 144 in 2011, Mansilla + Tuñón published by Electa in 2007, Sketch 115-116 (II) in 2003, magazine 2G 27 in 2003.

In 1993, Emilio Tuñón founded together with Luis Moreno Mansilla and Luis Rojo the cooperative of minds CIRCO, creating a publication of the same name, which has been awarded with the prize of the III Ibero-American Biennial of Architecture and Engineering, the COAM prize and the Special prize of the critic FAD 2007.

Published on: November 2, 2018

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