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Winners announced in RIBAJ/Future Architects writing competition

Region:: United Kingdom

More:: Climate emergency; Diversity; Inclusion; Architectural Association; Disability; Housing; Retail; BLM; Grenfell Tower; Future architect writers

Future writers consider our world from an architectural perspective

Region:: United Kingdom

More:: Chris Foges; Nottingham Trent University; University of Edinburgh; University of Cambridge; Newcastle University; Central St Martins University of the Arts; Sarah Maafi; RIBAJ/ Future Architects writing competition

Radical architecture group suggests a future for loathed Nottingham shopping centre, writes Harry Tindale

Region:: East Midlands

More:: Future architect writers; RIBAJ/Future Architects writing competition; Archigram; Nottingham; Retail; Shopping malls; Places planning & community; Future architect writer

Wajiha Afsar’s essay on how to put Wales’ Wellbeing Act into action

Region:: Wales

More:: RIBAJ/Future writers; Well Being of Future Generations Act; Practice; Wajiha Afsar; Greta Thunberg; Future architect writers

Emerging architects are quite handy with words too

Region:: United Kingdom

More:: Future Architects; Young talent; Architectural training; Future architect writers

The social media-fuelled desire to copy trends in our living environments is draining resources

Region:: United Kingdom

More:: Holly Milton; Newcastle University; Sustainable architecture; Social media; TikTok; Consumerism; Product trends; Future Architects; RIBAJ/ Future Architects writing competition

How memes give us hope, humour and relief in a pressured career

Region:: United Kingdom

More:: Future Architects; Central St Martins University of the Arts; Memes; Competition; Business clients & services; Practice; Internship; Education; RIBAJ/ Future Architects writing competition

Navigating the intricate tango of tradition and modernity within the Nigerian context

Region:: Rest of the world

More:: Siobhan Coker; Future Architects; Nigeria; Tosin Oshinowo; Tropical modernism; Alan Vaughan-Richards; Sustainable architecture; Future architect writers

Fresh perspectives on the profession, regulation and equitable design

Region:: United Kingdom

More:: Future Architects; Chris Foges; Design construction & technology; RIBAJ/ Future Architects writing competition

Kiosks are more than retail outlets, they can be the cornerstones of communities

Region:: Europe

More:: Future Architects; Emilia Chegini; Retail; Places planning & community; University of Dundee; Future architect writers

Glasgow’s deindustrialised docklands are fertile ground for wildlife adapted to human environments

Region:: Scotland

More:: Zachariasz Czerwinski; Future Architects; Glasgow; Biodiversity; Docks; Conservation and heritage; University of Strathclyde; Future architect writers

Ruth Ramsden’s RIBAJ/Future Architects essay on the architecture of shopping centres

Region:: South / South East

More:: Future Architects; Retail; Ruth Ramsden; Future architect writers

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Future Architects use personal experience and global affairs to tackle issues facing architecture

Future Architects: writers expand their horizons

Archigram's 1962 Nottingham Shopping Viaduct proposal points the way forward

Can we change the way we practise to improve the world?

RIBAJ/Future Architects writing competition 2020 – the results

Holly Milton: Social media trends vs architecture

Will Hayter: Overcoming turbulence

2024 RIBAJ/Future Architects writing competition runner-up: from dusk till dawn, by Siobhan Coker

Lyrical, critical and passionate: RIBAJ/Future Architects 2023 writing competition

2024 RIBAJ/Future Architects writing competition winner: the death of the kiosk, by Emilia Chegini

RIBAJ/Future Architects writing competition 2024 commended: the new tenants of Govan Docks, by Zachariasz Czerwinski

Charter Place shopping centre does nothing to revive a failing typology