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Microbes are our friends

Research underpins practice – as celebrated by the RIBA President’s Awards. Counter intuitive as it may sound, this medal-winning investigation advances the cause of ‘good’ microbes and probiotic design

19 January 2021

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Geothermal co-operative steps down the hill to win President’s Medal, Silver

Rob Beeny’s reimagining of a rural power station as community asset was inspired by the effects of withdrawn green subsidies on Tuscan businesses and residents

2 December 2020

Presidents medals 2019

Familiar harbour landmarks become pollution monitors in Sydney
Silver Medal scheme addresses Sydney Harbour contamination
Community masterplan works with nature to revive New Orleans
Bronze medallist aims to end disaster/victim cycle of climate change
Families and flexibility over time in housing design
Dissertation winner charts how attitudes to age have affected spatial relations
Mixing with neighbours reveals what architects need to know
Rely on residents to inform your design argues winning dissertation
Inside colonial India’s cutcherry
Research winner explores the everyday spaces of British rule in India
Form follows lifecycle: The story behind Cork Construction Kit
Oliver Wilton and Matthew Barnett Howland’s Cork Construction Kit
What’s the best design for hospital wards?
Rosica Pachilova and Kerstin Sailer offer a diagnosis
Growth and violence in Bosnia and Herzegovina
Maps drive Mirna Pedalo’s research into ‘slow violence’

President's Medal 2018

Craft and Kalavela combine to guard knowledge
Sonia Magdziarz works out How to Carve a Giant
Addresses help the homeless regain identity
Chris Hildrey's ProxyAddress builds routes back into the system
How do you design a hotel in a power station?
Justin Bean is Dreaming of Electric Sheep
Nooks, nakes, and the quest for individual spaces
Rosemary Milne peeps into Species of Nooks and Other Niches

President's Medal 2017

Modernity in Manchuria
Ultra-modernism and history's record of power
RIBA President’s Medals: Silver
Daniel Hall
RIBA President’s Medals: Bronze
Kangli Zheng
RIBA President’s Medals: Dissertation
Rhiain Bower

More medal material

Wellbeing in prison design
Roland Karthaus’ design guide is founded on psychology and rehabilitation
Energy efficiency and building performance
Shortlisted: Design and Technical
Texture of Politics: London’s Anarchist Clubs
Shortlisted: History and Theory
Expanding the knowledge
George Godwin epitomises the spirit of the annual President’s Award for Research
Borrowing from IT
IT has lessons for construction procurement
Strength and beauty
Shell lace structure shortlisted for President’s Awards for Research