President’s Medals Winners 2018, News, Buildings, Projects, Design, England, UK
RIBA President’s Medals Student Awards 2018
Royal Institute of British Architects Student Awards News
5 Dec 2018
RIBA President’s Medals Student Awards 2018 Winners
World?s best architecture student projects revealed: RIBA honours architecture?s brightest new stars
Architecture student projects from across the globe win RIBA President?s Medals 2018
The winners of the 2018 Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) President?s Medals have been announced (4 December 2018).
The RIBA Silver Medal (for the best design project produced at RIBA Part 2 or equivalent) has been awarded to Sonia Magdziarz (Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL), for ?How to Carve a Giant?. RIBA Silver Medal winner Sonia Magdziarz, Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL:

The project (tutored by Penelope Haralambidou, Michael Tite, and Keiichi Matsuda) explores the relationship that individuals and communities have with their cultural heritage.
‘How to Carve a Giant’ – Design by RIBA Silver Medal winner Sonia Magdziarz, Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL

Sonia?s proposal physically carves a Finnish folk story into the fabric of a city and reinterprets contemporary typologies such as a library, workshop, and cultural archive to question whether we can preserve and disseminate knowledge. Sonia?s new building subtly emphasises the powerful role architects play in defining the cultural...