Contenders for this year's cohort include archi-preneurs, BAME mentors and sustainability champions
Eighteen entries from early career design professionals have been shortlisted for this year's RIBA Journal Rising Stars, in association with Origin. The group includes an innovative member of BIG in New York, a talented architect and architectural assistant from London-based Hawkins\Brown, an architect-planner and some brilliant designers delivering great buildings on site.
The members of the winning cohort of Rising Stars 2020 will be announced between 3 and 4 December here at ribaj.com, followed by publication in the December issue of the RIBA Journal. The cohort will be selected by judges Mary Arnold-Forster, Mary Arnold-Forster Architects; Joanna Asia Grzybowska, Rising Star 2019, Powell Tuck Associates and Mycelium Studio; Klaus Bode, Urban Systems Design; Jo Dimitri, National Trust; Alex Ely, Mae Architects; Shahed Saleem, Makespace Architects and University of Westminster; and the RIBA Journal’s Eleanor Young.
Shawn Adams, Part 2 graduate
Writing and activism for young people and diversity
Alex Ball, Richard Markland Architects
Applying virtual reality to concrete pours
Zoë Cave, Open City
Energetic adaption of Open City programmes to pandemic
Geethica Gunarajah, IF_DO
Proving herself with design flare and mentoring
Catalina Ionita, Coda Studios
Engaging on ethics and sustainability
Farran Keenan, Wolff Architects
Shaking up processes for sustainability
Raheela Khan-Fitzgerald, Hawkins\Brown
Acting collaboratively to address climate change
Annabel Koeck, Grimshaw
Getting people talking and acting for sustainability and the next generation
Fabrizio Matillana, Enfield Council
Clarity and creativity in planning for clients, for community, for local authority
Scott McAulay, Anthropocene Architecture School
Climate protester turned proactive educator
Bushra Mohamed, David Kohn Architects
Rethinking form through dwelling
Carla Novak and Adam Hiles, Novak Hiles Architects
Establishing creative design practice
Ingrid Petit, Feilden Fowles Architects
Outstanding design delivery with practice responsibility
Ben Porter, Hawkins\Brown
Coding for efficiency
ReFabricate (clockwise from top left): Paul Daramola, Sophie James, Guiseppe Ferrigno, Kate Ridgway, Roseanne Scott, Tiziana Di Ronco
Setting up innovative sustainability driven initiative on materials and circular economy
Pati Santos, The Good Thing
Practice for wellbeing
Kike Sanyaolu, Galliford Try
Problem solving and working for BAME women in construction
Oliver Thomas, BIG
Aspiring archi-preneur and design technologist