Thursday 17 September 2015

Monday 17 August 2015

The 2015 Student Drawing Prize

The Jonathan and Victoria Ball Award


Schools of Architecture in the Greater London area are invited in the summer term each year to nominate one student each on their RIBA Part 1 and Part 2 courses for the Company's annual student drawing prize.

The 2015 prize winners are shown here.

Part 2 Prize Winner - Natalie Gall, University of Greenwich
Marion's Fireplace
Hand drawn with pen and ink on tracing in layers then printed onto cartridge


Part 1 Joint Prize Winner - Gleb Sheykin, Architectural Association
Facade Terminus, Berlin
Mixed media combining scanned hand drawn lines reworked using digital techniques
Facade Terminus - Detail


Part 1 Joint Prize Winner -  Brad Sumner, Kingston University
St. Bride's, Fleet Street
Watercolour


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Tuesday 31 March 2015

HOW TO APPLY FOR THE WCCA STUDENT TRAVEL AWARD 2015

The Stuart Murphy Award

Background
The WCCA Travel Award has been offered annually since 2008 by the Worshipful Company of Chartered Architects with the support of the Royal Institute of British Architects. The Award provides an international travel grant to a student or a group of students enrolled in a RIBA-validated Part 2 course in a School of Architecture in the Greater London area. The objective of the Award is to allow a student or a group of students to conduct research on the topic and in the location of their choice. It is hoped that the research will enrich the Award holder’s studies in the field of Architecture contributing to the development of their course work as well as to the advancement of architectural knowledge.

Award details
One or more awards of up to a total of £2,000 are made to a student or a group of students. 
The travel, which must take place outside the UK, will be concluded in no longer than 2 months and will take place during the summer holidays following completion of the first year of a Part 2 course and prior to enrolling in the second year of the course. 

The successful applicant/s will be asked to produce a report of the project; this can be but does not have to be part of a dissertation. Awardees will be asked to produce one bound copy of the final report which will be kept in the RIBA British Architectural Library.

Eligibility
Applicants must be enrolled in the first year of a RIBA-validated Part 2 course in a School of Architecture in the Greater London area. 

The eligible Schools are: Architectural Association, Kingston University, London Metropolitan University, London South Bank University, Royal College of Art, University College London, University of East London, University of Greenwich and University of Westminster.

Entry 
To apply for the award please download and complete the application form.

The deadline for receipt of applications is 6pm on Monday 1st June 2015.


Interviews will be held on the afternoon of Tuesday 9th June 2015.

Please return completed applications to: 

Enquiries

Anne Markey - WCCA Master of Students


WCCATravelAward2015 Application

Friday 9 January 2015

2014 Travel Award Presentations at RIBA

Tower of Shadows, Chandigarh
Photo by Matt Loosley

The Winners and Runners Up of the Company's 2014 Stuart Murphy Travel Award will present their travels and research on Tuesday 3rd March 2015, 6.30 to 8.30pm, at RIBA, 66 Portland Place, London W1B 1AD.

Matt Loosely of Westminster University, the winner of the award, travelled to India last summer to document post independence modernist architectural ruins encountered through a series of photographs. Matt's photographs and his travel blog can be found at http://mloosley.tumblr.com/

Runner up Guy Rochez of the Royal College of Art travelled around Italy exploring the 'Theatre of Food' and joint runner up William Burgess of The Cass, London Metropolitan University visited the Gothic religious buildings of Northern Europe.

Come along and find out more about the 2015 Travel Award, attendance is free but booking is essential, contact travelaward2014@gmail.com to reserve a place or to enquire about the 2015 Award.

The Worshipful Company of Chartered Architects' Stuart Murphy Travel Award is made in memory of Stuart Murphy, the Chief Planning Officer of the City of London and past Master of the WCCA.

The Award provides a travel grant of up to £2,000 to a student or a group of students enrolled in the first year of a RIBA validated Part 2 course at a School of Architecture in the Greater London area. Winners present their work at the RIBA and are also requested to produce a report for the RIBA and WCCA collections.

Wednesday 1 October 2014

Welcome Peter Murray - 'author'

Welcome to the WCCA Students web-page.

All future contributions gratefully received!

Peter G S Murray
Click HERE for Wikipedia's views on PGS M

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Tuesday 19 August 2014

The 2014 Student Drawing Prize






The Jonathan and Victoria Ball Award

Schools of Architecture in the Greater London Area are invited in the summer term each year to nominate one student on a RIBA Part 1 course and one student on a Part 2 course for the Company's annual student drawing prize. The 2014 prize winners and runners up in each category are shown below.


Part 2 Prize Winner 2014 - Laurence York, University of Greenwich


Part 1 Prize Winner - Anna Pizova, The Cass, London Metropolitan University


Part 2 Runner Up - Suzi Pain, The Cass, London Metropolitan University


Part 1 Runner Up - Dan Rymer Trenholme, University of Greenwich