Architecture and Spatial Design Prizes 2022
Congratulations to all our winners and a big thank you to all the Practices and Companies who sponsored this years’ awards. The awards for 2022 are as follows.
John Andrews Drawing Prize.
This prize is for drawings, which demonstrate a process of exploration, discovery and communication. The prize is open to all students across the School of Architecture and Design.
Post Graduate Winner: Ewen Malloch: MA Architecture and Urban Design.
Under Graduate Winner: Manar Abu-Aisheh: BA Architecture
Commendation: Elena Mouis: BA Interior Architecture
Commendation: Vasiliki Almyranti: BA Architecture
Experimental Design Practices Prize 2022:
This prize is for work which has explored movement, change and flux. Students in all courses and levels were invited to submit their explorations on the subject of movement for this Experimental Design Prize.
Winner: Kat Podajska: MA Architecture and Urban Design
Commendation: Bruna Borges Jaoquim Masters of Architecture
Waste House Award for Circular Design.
This prize is open to graduating students across all Architecture and Spatial Design courses whose project addresses the Climate and Ecological Emergency head-on.
The mission of the prize is to raise awareness amongst students and staff of the importance of the Climate and Ecological Emergency and to add value to the understanding and challenges presented to design industries by the ambitions of a truly ‘circular economy’. Only work that considers The Circular Economy as all or part of the project is considered and the work must be nominated by tutors from across the school.
The criteria for judging the prize being the design proposition from initial inception attempts to fold in issues of the Circular Economy including “designing for re-manufacture”.
A panel consisting of Prize founder – Duncan Baker-Brown plus three colleagues judge each nominated piece of work and determine a prize winner through deliberation as well as the runners up and any projects to be highly commended.
Winner: Luke Kelly: BSC Product Design
Highly Commended: Ellie Herve: BA Interior Architecture
Highly Commended: Emily Sizeland: BSC Product Design
Technical Team Prizes for Models.
This year, the Technical Team awarded two prizes for the best models by final year students on either undergraduate or postgraduate courses.
Prize for best model
Winner: Kat Cory-Wright: BA Interior Architecture
Commendation: Imani Qamar: BA Interior Architecture
Commendation: Hollie Willis: BA Architecture
Prize for best photograph of a model.
Winner: Theodora Papadelli: BA Architecture
Commendation: Roza Mierzwa: BA Architecture
Commendation: George Armin: BA Architecture
Make Award for Excellence in Architecture.
This prize is given by Make Architects to a final year Masters of Architecture student in recognition of their consistent excellence throughout the Masters programme. Final year Master of Architecture students who have achieved the highest results in each studio are automatically included in the nomination. In addition, tutors nominate one further student from each studio who they feel has completed work over the course that fits the criteria of the prize.
Joint Winner: William Cork
Joint Winner: Barnaby Maynard
Wills and Partners Prize.
This award is for final year postgraduate students in Masters of Architecture and in MA Interior Design, who have developed their design skills and explored innovative ways of designing. The prizes are intended to reward students who are aware that the architectural environment can affect human behaviour and wellbeing and who have demonstrated a good understanding through their research and design portfolio.
Masters of Architecture
Joint Winner: Alice Richardson
Joint Winner: Barnaby Maynard
Runner-up: Stephanie Ralph
MA Interior Design
Winner: Trisha Dasgupta
Runner-up: Rebecca Archer
HMW Architects ‘Sustainable Social Legacy’ Masters of Architecture Prize
This prize is for a Design that demonstrates environmental ambition, is inclusive and creates a sense of place that people would choose to live, learn and work in with buildings that are adaptable, reusable and will benefit future generations.
Masters of Architecture
Winner: Stephanie Ralph
Commendation: Bruna Borges Joaquim
BA Architecture
Winner: Hollie Willis
Commendation: Lauren Goodchild
THE RIBA (Sussex Branch) Prize
Masters of Architecture
Winner: Bruna Borges Joaquim
Commendation: Zulf Rajwani
BA Architecture
Winner: Cecily Bryant
Commendation: Mat Borgen
Product Design Awards 2022
Outstanding Design Award This award is given to a student who has produced the overall most impressive final semester project.
Winner: – Josephine Choy
Ambitious Project Award – awarded to a student has clearly shown that they took risks either with the subject, technical aspects or scope/scale of the work and whose results are to be celebrated and commended.
Winner: Emily Sizeland
Studentship Awards. To students have shown real commitment to their studies, displaying dedication and determination throughout the year.
- Josephine Choy
- Luke Kelly
- James Cann
Foundation Course Awards
Best Final Project
Joint Winner: Luke Hegarty
Joint Winner: Connor Windsor
Joint Runner-up: Matt Boland
Joint Runner-up: Josef Martin Parackel
James Latham Prize for Innovative Timber Engineering
Sponsored by James Latham Timber this award is for innovative use of timber within a student design project at undergraduate level on either the BA Architecture course or on the BA Interior Architecture Course.
Joint Winner: Imani Qamar: BA Interior Architecture
Joint Winner: Roza Mierzwa: BA Architecture
Joint Winner: Ted Calderbank: BA Architecture
Felix and Merlin Architects Prize.
This prize is open to all BA Interior Architecture and BA Architecture students.
The prize is awarded to students deemed to have shown exceptional skill and execution in designing from the ‘Inside Out’. The projects that win the award will have displayed a cohesive thought process from quality of the interior experience through to the external architecture.
Designing from the Inside Out’ can be defined as designing buildings from the inside out, rather than from the outside in, because these are the parts of the building that are in use every day.
Felix and Merlin are interested in people’s lives and their everyday experiences and how clients and architects can work together to make both better
Winner: Joseph Williamson: BA Architecture
Second Prize: Cicely Bryant: BA Architecture
Commendation: Thana Elkamel: BA Interior Architecture
Chalk Architecture Award
This award is for a graduating student undertaking either undergraduate BA Interior Architecture or BA Architecture deemed to have shown an exceptional record of research, process and investigation leading to their design proposal.
Winner: Joe De Kadt: BA Architecture
Commendation: Cicely Bryant: BA Architecture
Commendation: Mat Borgen: BA Architecture
Studio B.A.D + Chora Award
A first and second prize for the graduating student undertaking the undergraduate Interior Architecture course in recognition of narrative and story-telling through excellence in drawings and representation.’
Winner: Magda Munoz Garcia
Second Prize: Mima Jupp
Third Prize: Jaime Prunas
Commendation: Ross Macmillon
Commendation: Thana Elkamel
Inspirational Student Awards
An award for students who have shown resilience and an appetite for learning in the widest sense making the most of opportunities both in the studio and beyond and as such are an inspiration to others.
Rachel Wilson MA Sustainable Design
Karla Strudwick Bsc HONS Project management in Construction
Jaime Singleton BA Architecture