Practice Makes Perfect Research
Architecture remains a profession where practitioners strive to ‘make a difference’ using the vehicle of innovative design. In November the RIBA will present a one-day symposium examining design practice as research, featuring a host of speakers active in areas such as social change, housing, health, the environment and technology.
The event has been convened by Katherine Heron, head of architecture at the University of Westminster, who has given the event an international aspect by including Professor Leon van Schaik of the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology and Richard Blyth of the University of Tasmania among the contributors.
During the symposium RIBA vice president for education Simon Allford will present the first annual RIBA President’s Research Awards for outstanding PhD research and for outstanding academic based research. A call for next year’s awards will also be announced.
Further details of ‘Making the difference: design practice as research,’ which takes place at the RIBA on 24 November 2006, is at
http://www.architecture.com/go/Events/Events_2623.html
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