Robin Partington Awards
Robin Partington & Partners (RPP) Material Practice Awards
We are delighted with this collaboration with Robin Partington & Partners; their generosity will enable our students to develop their projects through working with materials and craft techniques in contact with practitioners. Harry Charrington
As part of a new competitive sponsorship scheme generously supported by Robin Partington & Partners, the Material Practice Awards were launched in February. These new awards are designed to help students further develop and prototype the material and environmental technologies of their Design Studio projects. Unlike conventional student prizes awarded at the end of the year, these awards are explicitly designed to support and encourage the design process. Twenty final year students from BA Architecture and the MArch made proposals; and seven students were chosen to present their work at the RPP studio. Robin Partington said of the collaboration: “Nurturing new young talent is key to the future of our profession and we look forward to working with academics and students at the Faculty of Architecture
and the Built Environment to identify and support ideas that can make a real difference.” Robin Partington & Partners have most recently made the Sunday Times ‘Top 100 Best Small Companies to Work for’. It has also been shortlisted for the AJ100 Practice of the Year and Employer of the Year awards. Awards of between £500 and £1000 were made to the following students:
Benjamin Brakspear & Kishan San Nicole Cork Rob Cullen Shaun Huddleston
Garis Iu James Rogers
A further £3,000 will be awarded to help selected students from this group to develop their work in collaboration with RPP. £2,000 will be awarded to outstanding Dissertation students studying materials and craft to support their travel and research costs.
Students presenting their work at RPP’s Studio to Robin Partington, Jason Geen, Charlotte Henney, Roda Sulaiman & Yashin Kemal (Roda and Yashin are both Westminster graduates)
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