Built Environment Jury

Core77 Design Awards 2015

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  Laura Allen

  Senior Lecturer, Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London

  Mark Smout and Laura Allen are Senior Lecturers at the Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL. Their work takes two routes, architectural competitions, where the particular rigor of the competition brief, site and program provide the basis for new investigations and, conceptual design projects which test out the agenda and methodology of the design research practice. They focus on the dynamic relationship between the natural and the man made and how this can be revealed to enhance the experience of the architectural landscape.

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  Mark Smout

  Senior Lecturer, Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London

  Mark Smout and Laura Allen are Senior Lecturers at the Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL. Their work takes two routes, architectural competitions, where the particular rigor of the competition brief, site and program provide the basis for new investigations and, conceptual design projects which test out the agenda and methodology of the design research practice. They focus on the dynamic relationship between the natural and the man made and how this can be revealed to enhance the experience of the architectural landscape.

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  Vicky Richardson

  Director of Architecture, Design and Fashion, British Council

  Vicky Richardson is Director of Architecture, Design and Fashion at the British Council. She organizes a busy international program of touring exhibitions, residencies, exchanges and talks and is Commissioner of the British Pavilion at Venice Architecture Biennale. Vicky studied at Central St Martins, Chelsea School of Art and the University of Westminster. Following a degree in architecture, she became an architectural journalist, and was Deputy Editor at the RIBA Journal before becoming Editor of design magazine Blueprint, from 2004 to 2010.Vicky is a co-director of the London Festival of Architecture and is an adviser to the Mayor on culture and creative industries as a member of the London Mayor's Cultural Strategy Group.Vicky has written several books including New Vernacular Architecture (Laurence King, 2002) and continues to write about architecture and design for a variety of publications, as well as the British Council design blog, Back of the Envelope.

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  Will Hunter

  Founding Director, London School of Architecture

  Will is the deputy editor of The Architectural Review, and is the founder of Alternative Routes of Architecture (ARFA), a think-tank exploring alternative educational models. He has previously been editor of the monthly magazines of The Architects' Journal (AJ) and Building Design (BD). He has taught architecture at both London Metropolitan University and the Royal College of Art; at the latter as a design unit master and chair of the architecture school's public lecture program.Will has judged numerous competitions, including the Global Architecture Graduate Awards(chair) and the RIBA President's Medals dissertation prize 2013. He has recently completed a report for RIBA Building Futures, and is currently working on a monograph of Peter Salter's Walmer Yard project in West London (AA Publications).