Rising Star: Catherine Sinclair
Working to reduce whole life carbon from the earliest design stages
Rising Star: Dhruv Gulabchande
Promotes diversity in the profession through mentoring
Rising Star: Dion Barrett
Architectural filmmaker dedicated to communicating the architectural process
Rising Star: Heather McNeill
Sustainable design advocate delivering Passivhaus, Passivhaus plus, and Enerphit plus projects
Rising Star: Katie Fisher
Dedicated to driving positive change in the profession
Rising Star: Marina Strotz
Dedicated to integrating nature into the built environment
Rising Star: Stephen Parker
On a mission to create therapeutic environments that support mental wellbeing
Rising Star: Nichola Barrington-Leach
Founder of international collaborative platform for emerging practices
Rising Stars 2024: doing things better
This year’s cohort display an entrepreneurial ability to make positive change
Rising star: Poppy Levison
Disability activist drawing on her experience as a blind woman to advocate for inclusive design
Rising Star: Ran Xiao
Pioneering the use of AI to reduce carbon emissions from existing housing stock
Rising star: Savannah Williams
Supporting and mentoring people of colour in the profession
Rising Stars 2024: meet the shortlist
Meet the 2024 RIBA Journal Rising Stars shortlist of next-generation talents
Rising Stars 2024 – entries now closed
Rising Stars is an opportunity for talented early-career professionals to be recognised
Rising Star: Clementine Blakemore
Delivering inventive and inclusive projects with a positive impact on the environment
Rising Star: Elena Shilova
Leading material innovation at Grimshaw through collaboration on radical sustainable Sugarcrete® Slab
Rising Star: Martha Summers
Architect and artist designing queer and feminist community spaces as personal projects
Rising Star: James Purkiss
Engaging sustainability champion co-designed on retrofit with Becontree estate residents
Rising Star: Larry Botchway
Dedicated to development of communities through the elevation of young people
Rising Star: Jack Hawthorne
Delivering complex award-winning projects and creating a forum of international discourse
Rising Star: Sophia Malik
Champion of innovative and sustainable bamboo construction for resource-poor communities
Rising Star: Oliver Beetschen
Agile designer with a passion for prefabrication and experience in theatre design, railway footbridges and Elizabeth Line stations
Rising Star: Faye Sedgewick
Driving innovation and quality in the design of homes and care environments for older people in the north-east of England
Rising Star: Hamza Shaikh
Architect, podcast host, artist and influencer, exploring experimental architectural drawing
Rising Stars 2023: meet the shortlist
Meet the 2023 RIBA Journal Rising Stars shortlist of next-generation talents
From sustainability to capitalism, Rising Stars discuss the challenges they face
Sustainbility, longevity and capitalism were all discussed by this year’s RIBAJ Rising Stars at a recent roundtable
The voices of RIBAJ Rising Stars 2022
Rising Stars revisited: catching up with Bongani Muchemwa and Betty Owoo
As part of Black History Month and ahead of the announcement of this year’s RIBAJ Rising Stars, we talk to two recipients of the 2022 awards, Bongani Muchemwa and Betty Owoo, about their experiences during the past two years
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Rising Stars: Winners consider the big questions facing architects today
Tomorrow's influential architects mull over issues from equality to fees, growth to long hours
Rising star: Charlie Palmer
Championing participatory, community design through his practice Incremental Urbanism
Rising star: Farhana Jiwa
Promoting social value initiatives and encouraging young people into architectural education
Rising star: Josh Foster
Blog founder showcasing and supporting architecture students
Rising star: John Naylor
Grimshaw architect is a passionate advocate for the use of bamboo in construction
Rising star: Michelle Martin
Organising insightful on-site training in conservation
Rising Stars 2022: entrepreneurial spirit
The variety of skills and expertise raises the question of what an architect is
Rising star: Daniel Innes
Campaigner and activist for LGBT+ architects who has set up a travelling life-drawing programme
Rising stars: Steve McCloy and Bongani Muchemwa
Architects and educators involved in some notable collaborations
Rising star: Jordan Whitewood-Neal
Leading research, conversation and action for disability justice
Rising star: Jennifer Dyne
Leading David Kohn’s one-off houses team and providing a role model for women at the practice
Rising star: Jo Sharples
Editional Studio director is a protagonist for sustainability, promoting it through a shopfront studio
Rising star: Georgia Collard-Watson
The wellbeing lead at Grimshaw is working to break down stigma over mental health
Rising star: Betty Owoo
Making the public realm and architecture open to underrepresented groups
Rising Stars 2022: meet the shortlist
Meet the 2022 RIBA Journal Rising Stars shortlist of next-generation talents
Rising Stars 2022: the longlist
Meet the next-generation talents in the running for this year’s cohort
Rising Stars seek balance in hard times
Identity dominated discussions at the Rising Stars roundtable
Top 5: Intelligence stories 2021
Rising Stars winners, how to decarbonise home extensions, the practices that set up during Covid and more
Rising Star: Conrad Koslowsky
On a mission to create children’s homes that don’t feel institutional
Rising Star: Charlie Butterwick
Founder of ArchitectureUnknown is committed to delivering sustainable, cost-effective solutions
Rising Star: Rachael Owens
Buckley Gray Yeoman head of sustainability has created clear guides for architects and clients
Rising Star: Scott Abercrombie
Glasgow-based heritage cheerleader, saving buildings from the grand to the tenement.
Rising Star: Mat Barnes
The director of CAN is a fresh design talent with a cheeky sense of postmodernism
Rising Star: Hiba Alobaydi
Assistant editor at Foster + Partners has a commitment to outreach and volunteering
Rising Star: Amy Francis-Smith
The architect at Pinnegar Hayward Design has led the way on disability campaigning
Rising Star: Simeon Shtebunaev
Birmingham City University lecturer is working to make architecture better for young people
Rising Star: Hannah Durham
A caring and committed architecture lecturer with an interest in recorded sound.
Rising Stars 2021: agitating for change
This year’s Rising Stars are agitators, bringing their colourful voices to a grey digital Covid world
Rising Stars 2021: meet the shortlist
Meet the RIBA Journal Rising Stars shortlist for 2021
Beyond zero: sustainable design is not enough
Climate emergency demands architects design to restore and regenerate
Social architecture needs to become the norm
Architecture that prioritises human dignity contrasts with the market-led norm, argues Zoë Cave
Rising Stars put architecture in context of personal experience and universal issues
Sustainability, diversity and identity drive youthful perspectives
Can planning design policies adapt to pandemic changes?
Are planning policies flexible enough to adapt to pandemic changes?
How this year's Rising Stars went above and beyond
The qualities that set 2020’s cohort apart and made it much tougher to decide
Rising Star: Raheela Khan-Fitzgerald
Developer of award winning emissions reduction tool
Rising Star: Scott McAulay
Sustainability warrior and ‘significant influencer’
Rising Star: Annabel Koeck
Leader of complex projects and mentor of the next generation
Rising Star: Zoë Cave
Helped reinvent Open City in the face of the pandemic
Rising Star: Shawn Adams
Paving the way for the next generation
Rising Star: Fabrizio Matillana
Bringing design thinking to planning issues
Rising Star: Ingrid Petit
Diligent, patient natural leader
Rising Star: Bushra Mohamed
Champion of the compound house for multigenerational living
Rising Star: Re-Fabricate
Six reuse initiatives, three heading for commercial launch
Rising stars 2020: the shortlist
The contenders for this year's cohort
Rising Stars 2020: the longlist
Who’s in the running for this year’s cohort?
Step outside your silo to change the future of the profession
We've got to get design involved at strategic levels of projects says Rising Star Madeleine Kessler
In it together: how collaboration benefits practices large and small
Collaboration will help deal with falling workloads says RIBAJ Rising Star Hugh McEwen
Come in and have a go: designing sports facilities that inspire participation
Sports facilities should be inviting, not intimidating, says RIBAJ Rising Star Felicity Meares
Small practices need a fairer share of the procurement process – here's how
Little changes could allow small firms to make the leap to big projects says RIBAJ Rising Star Benni Allan
Rising Star: Muneeb David
He's passionate about the power of architecture to change the world – and he's starting to make it happen
Rising Star: Nick Tyrer
Computational design pioneer bringing sophisticated geometries to stadia concepts
Rising Star: Joanna Asia Grzybowska
Powell Tuck's diversity champion is challenging designers to experience a differently abled life
RIBA Journal Rising Stars 2019
Welcome to the Rising Star 2019 awards, celebrating the stellar talents of architecture's rising generation
Rising Star: Maria Knutsson-Hall
Her stadium design is stunning – just look at Tottenham Hotspurs' new ground – but Knutsson-Hall also believes sports architecture can score for women's football
Rising Star: Hugh McEwen
Extraordinary creativity of the man who thinks that colour is a material
Rising Star: Benni Allan
Tipped for success – and now he's achieved it, at his own practice, on his own terms
Rising Star: Madeleine Kessler
Kessler is a force for good in the industry. Here's why
Rising Star: Felicity Meares
Co-opting digital technology with the future of architecture in her sights
Rising Star: Greg Storrar
Storrar's visionary research opens up whole new worlds for architecture
Meet the shortlist for this year's Rising Stars
Who will make the final cohort?
Atomik Architecture’s adventures in Kazakhstan
Never sign anything in Russian and beware the fizzy horse milk
How to rise above it all: getting on in practice
Encouraging words from our Rising Stars judges
How to build the best practice-university collaborations
Top tips from Rising Star 2018 Emily Pallot
How start-up mindset can revitalise architecture
Dust off those holistic skills
Four ways to diversify your practice
Use your special skills to be ‘archipreneurial’
These proactive Rising Stars aim to affect the issues
The newest cohort of RIBAJ Rising Stars met again in March for the annual roundtable of winners.
Celebrating with this year’s Rising Stars
Winner’s party for our social warriors
Sahiba Chadha
Nurturer of people and the planet becomes a RIBAJ Rising Star 2018
Tara Gbolade
Original thinker with a passion for helping others joins 2018's RIBAJ Rising Stars
Chris Hildrey
Problem solving skills of this RIBAJ Rising Star 2018 give practical help to homeless
Derek Draper
Compelling achievements and infectious enthusiasm add up to a RIBAJ Rising Star 2018
Kieren Majhail
A vision for change and the determination to make it happen from this RIBAJ Rising Star 2018
Emily Pallot
Ambitious, creative and committed – and a RIBAJ Rising Star 2018
Benjamin Channon
Champion of mental wellbeing becomes a RIBAJ Rising Star 2018
2018's Rising Stars are social warriors
Young architects focus inventive powers on problems of society
Hannah Constantine
Determined presence on site, skilled in dispute resolution and a RIBAJ Rising Star 2018
Jonathan Chan
The art of architectural drawing shall not die thanks to this RIBAJ Rising Star 2018
Who'll be RIBAJ's Rising Stars of 2018?
Find out who's on this year's Rising Stars longlist
Revisiting the Rising Stars cohort of 2016
What are they doing now?
How to work with architects: Five tips for clients
Part 2: Pocket's Angharad Palmer gives her advice to those commissioning buildings
How to work with clients: Five rules for architects
Part 1: Pocket's head of design explains how to have a successful architect/client relationship
Running a project on a shoestring
Small scale architecture can work for everyone
When we all pull together
Interdisciplinary design is the way ahead
Go with the flow: responses to climate change
Adapting to extreme weather works better than resistance
Stadium design: make it feel real
All as one and one for all
When failure is a good thing
Testing a design to breaking point can strengthen a project
Rising Stars: Feeling the pulse of the young
Thinking out loud with tomorrow's stars
Angharad Palmer
Angharad Palmer
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Arthur Mamou-Mani
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