Architecture & the Patternmaker by Sam Wilson
The winners of the annual A+DS and RIAS Scottish Student Awards for Architecture were announced at a ceremony held at The Lighthouse, Glasgow, on Thursday 5th July.
The awards – now in their 10th year – aim to recognise the talent of student architects and are awarded in a number of categories.
The 2012 winners are:
01 The RIAS Rowand Anderson Silver Medal for best 5th year student
Winner: Sam Wilson – University of Dundee
“Well-established and conventional approaches are strongly challenged in these drawings and a strong and convincing new architectural voice emerges.”
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Commended: Calum Paterson – Scott Sutherland School of Architecture
“The evolution of the design approach here is beautifully and seductively simple. The play of light on materials and the rendering of textures is compellingly communicated. While the architecture is inherently responsive and appropriate, the expression and communication is powerful and convincing.”
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Winner: Jack Taylor - Mackintosh School of Architecture
“The drawings are seductive and powerfully communicate space and light.”
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Highly Commended: Josh Murphy-Mackintosh School of Architecture
“This submission demonstrates careful and deliberate process in the formulation of the designapproach. It acknowledges history and context and utilises both intelligently. While the approach iscareful and understated, there is significant drama and a real contemplative quality in the interiors in particular.”
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03 Architecture + Design Scotland Urban Design Award
Winner: Michal Scieszka and Dale Smith – University of Strathclyde
“Through independent thinking and sophisticated analysis this project gets it spot on!”
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Highly Commended: Douglas Tullie, Ben Watson and Phoebe Yu – ESALA
“The careful analysis gets 'under the skin'of the city. However the city is understood, not simply on a pragmatic or technical level, but through a more poetic reading, carefully weighing history, symbolism, expectation and delight. The scheme meshes with the existing fabric, portraying astrong sense of movement, fitting to this context.”
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Commended: Ruth Acheson, Shona Black and Stephen Wilson – ESALA
“This grouping of buildings, essentially a new quarter utilising the existing city as its backdrop, is carefully considered. The city acts as host to this appropriately scaled project, rather than its immediate context.”
Winner: Michal Scieszka and Dale Smith – University of Strathclyde
“Social and urban sustainability issues are explored and addressed in this careful and intelligent project.”
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05 The RIAS Drawing Award
Winner: John Kennedy – University of Strathclyde
“These drawings are evocative of process and thereby go well beyond simple notions of well-drawn buildings – they are truly architectural.”
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Following the awards ceremony the winning entries will be on display in The Lighthouse which offers a rare opportunity for the public and profession to see the best work of students from all of Scotland’s Schools of Architecture together in one space.
Speaking about the Awards, A+DS Depute Chair Graham Ross said “these awards celebrate the high standard of work and ideas from best students at Scotland’s schools of architecture. The forthcoming exhibition provides an excellent opportunity for the public and profession to view the work from these talented, young designers.”
RIAS President Sholto Humphries commented “our annual student awards mark the extraordinarily high standard of architectural education in Scotland. Students from throughout the world come here and Scotland’s five schools of architecture are major contributors to the evolution of architecture across the planet.”
To see what the Judges thought about the winning and commended entries go to the A+DS website for a full report on the awards.
This year’s A+DS and RIAS Student Awards Exhibition will be on show in The Lighthouse, Glasgow, from July 30th until the 5th October 2012.
The awards are supported by the Scottish Government and sponsored by RIAS Insurance Services.