The inaugural SWC Annual Lecture on 7th December was delivered by the naturalist Sir David Attenborough and focused on the aesthetic sensation in birds.
Patrik Schumacher’s WAF speech revealed him as an apologist for the politics of disposability, with no respect for the registers of care, compassion, and democratic vision, says Ian Ritchie
Ian Ritchie will be giving the keynote talk on glass futures at the publication launch of The Pilkington Study on 29th November at the Goldsmith Centre London. It is based on a survey conducted by Coleman Parkes Research into the future use of glass by architects and specifiers. It also reveals the optimism/pessimism of the Brexit vote upon their future workload.
In the Winter edition of the RA Magazine, Ian Ritchie makes the case for utopian visions, and Hugh Pearman, editor of the RIBA Journal, presents an opposing view.
On 5th November, TEDx University of Macedonia is hosting one of its annual events under the theme ‘Gravity of Thoughts’. As part of the event, our Tania Oramas will give a talk ‘Learning In & Learning From: Ideas on the move’.
Turkishceramics is showing a Sinan Exhibition at the World Architecture Festival in Berlin.
As a contributor to the AJ's ‘Sinan: The First Starchitect’, Ian Ritchie has been invited to talk at their Sinan seminar which will take place in the afternoon of 17th November.
iRAL are delighted that the SWC is the 2016 Overall Winner of the Leading European Architecture Forum (LEAF) Awards and also wins the LEAF Façade Design & Engineering Award.
The judges comment: "Poetic and pragmatic, a very worthy winner" - iRAL is proud to celebrate the 2016 BCI Major Building of the Year Award (over £50m) with all those involved.
Since 2011 Article 25 have held an auction each year of artwork by architects capturing an aspect of London. Brixton is the area chosen this year, and Ian Ritchie has submitted an inking 28cm x 38cm entitled 'Courtesan Brixton'.
Volkwin Marg, gmp architekten, is celebrating his 80th birthday with an exhibition at the Aedes Gallery, Berlin. Ian Ritchie is delighted to give a talk at the opening on 21st October.
On 26th October Ian Ritchie will deliver the inaugural talk in a programme created by Edinburgh Architectural Association to look 25-50 years ahead into Edinburgh’s future.
The Sainsbury Wellcome Centre has been shortlisted in this year’s World Architecture Festival Awards in the Higher Education and Research - Completed Buildings category.
Ian Ritchie will be speaking at the international architecture congress ‘Contrasts – New Architecture with Glass’ on 21 September at the Glasstec International Trade Fair (20-23 September 2016) in Düsseldorf.
The Sainsbury Wellcome Centre has been selected as a finalist in the Major Building Project of the Year (over £50m) category of the 2016 British Construction Industry Awards
Ian Ritchie will be speaking at the RIAS Centenary International Convention on the 14th May at the Scottish National Gallery, Edinburgh. Download the speech here.
This year the Architecture Gallery in the Royal Academy of Arts Summer Exhibition has been jointly curated by Academicians Ian Ritchie and Louisa Hutton.
The Festival is a major, year-long, Scotland-wide celebration led by The Royal Incorporation of Architects in Scotland which brings architecture to life and is a key part of the 2016 Year of Innovation, Architecture and Design.
Turkishceramics in collaboration with the Architects’ Journal will celebrate the launch of 'Sinan: The First Starchitect' at the Royal Academy of Arts tonight.
The Sainsbury Wellcome Centre will be celebrated this evening with a party organised by the client and funders - UCL, the Wellcome Trust, and the Gatsby Charitable Foundation. Download Ian Ritchie's speech here.
Tania has been collaborating with the NGO ‘Seeds of Learning’ to develop a design for an innovative and sustainable school for 27 children in the rural community of ‘El Jicarito’ (Nicaragua), and now they need help to make this happen.
A crowd-funding campaign has been set up for your to help them reach their goal: https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/el-jicarito-school#/.
The Architecture Gallery in the Royal Academy of Arts’ Summer Exhibition 2016 will be jointly curated by Professor Ian Ritchie RA and Louisa Hutton RA.
The Star Wars promotional team transformed The Spire of Dublin into a stunning blue Lightsaber to announce the arrival of the latest Star Wars film - The Force Awakens.