A+DS and RIAS Scottish Student Awards for Architecture 2010
Alex Whitton's Refuge and Performance Centre, Porto
The Scottish Student Awards for Architecture, now in their 8th year, were recently announced at a reception at The Lighthouse in Glasgow.
The 2010 judges were Iain Docherty, Professor or Public Policy and Governance, University of Glasgow, David Dunbar President RIAS, Ian Gilzean, Chief Architect, Scottish Government and Ian McKnight, Partner, Hackett Hall McKnight, Belfast. They were unanimous in their selection of the Mackintosh School of Architectureâ??s Alex Whitton as, not only the recipient of the RIAS Rowand Anderson Silver Medal, but also the winner of the RIAS Drawing Award. Alex was also Highly Commended in a category he had not been submitted for, Architecture and Design Scotland's Urban Design Award.
The full details of this year's awards are listed below:
RIAS Rowand Anderson Silver Medal for best Scottish student
| Winner | Alex Whitton, Mackintosh School of Architecture |
Architecture and Design Scotland Award for best 3rd year student
| Winner | Ben Watson, University of Edinburgh |
| Highly Commended | Georgios Tsorman, Edinburgh College of Art |
| Commended | Joshua Doyle, Mackintosh School of Architecture |
| Commended | Euan Russell, University of Dundee |
03 Architecture and Design Scotland Urban Design Award
The judges decided not to award a winner for this category
| Highly Commended | Alex Whitton, Mackintosh School of Architecture |
| Highly Commended | Georgios Tsorman, Edinburgh College of Art |
04 Sust. Award for Sustainable Design
| Winner | Rick Burney, Scott Sutherland School of Architecture |
05 The RIAS Drawing Award (Sponsored by RIASIS)
| Winner | Alex Whitton, Mackintosh School of Architecture |
| Highly Commended | Marek Sivák, University of Edinburgh |
| Commended | Sean Michael McAlister, University of Dundee |
| Commended | Georgios Tsorman, Edinburgh College of Art |