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We are delighted to announce that Áine Walker (CCAE MArch student 2019-2020) was awarded the distinguished RIBA Serjeant Award ...
Dr Jason O'Shaughnessy
Click & ReadProgramme Director, Cork Centre for Architectural Education (CCAE), UCC & MTU
We are delighted to announce that Áine Walker of the Cork Centre for Architectural Education - MArch student 2019-2020: Lisbon - has been awarded the distinguished in the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) President's Silver Medal Awards 2020.
Developed under the year thematic which sought to encourage critical new architectural proposals for Lisbon - by understandings the tension between the experience of space (the real) and the conception of space (the ideal) and between the fictional and the logical - her proposal investigates the connective agent of storytelling in architectural drawing and social practices. It proposed a new Bazaar-like urban space for the city that formally shifts between urban artefact (Baixa Pombalina) and material object (restored dolls, curious cabinet displays) - producing a social interface and heterogeneous space where hierarchies are displaced in a welter of gestures, (written) words, and sounds.
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- See our other class projects here.
Supporting film for 'Anamnesis: Connective (Re)Collections' by Aine Walker (MArch), winner of the 2020 RIBA President’s Silver Medal (Serjeant Award).
CCAE, UCC & MTU
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Cork Centre for Architectural Education (CCAE), UCC & MTU
Click & ViewList of Awards & Prizes (2015-2020)
2020: RIBA President’s Silver Medal “Serjeant Award”: Winner, Áine Walker.
2020: NUI Travelling Doctoral Scholarship in the Humanities & Social Sciences: Kieran Cremin
2020: Fulbright Irish Student Award Scholarship: Kieran Cremin
2020: IDI Graduate Design Awards: Commendation, David Roe.
2019: ISARCH International award for Architecture student projects: Special Mention, Viktor Gekktor.
2019: World Architecture Festival (WAF): John Soane Drawing Prize: Finalist, Viktor Gekktor.
2018: RIAI/Scott Tallon Walker Student Prize for Excellence: Second Place, Christopher Olden
2018: RIAI Architecture Ireland and Forbo Student Writing Prize: Commendation, David Weldon.
2017: RIBA Stirling Prize: Eoin Horgan, Part III Project Architect with dRMM Architects.
2017: RIAI/Scott Tallon Walker Student Prize for Excellence: Winner, Mark Phelan.
2017: RIAI/Scott Tallon Walker Student Prize for Excellence: Commendation, Paul Higgisson.
2017: RIAI/Scott Tallon Walker Student Prize for Excellence: Commendation, David Stack.
2017: Drawing of the Year - What is Everyday Utopia?: Special Mention, Viktor Gekktor.
2017: EAAE European Architecture Medals Best Diploma Project: Finalist, Sean O’Connor.
2016: BD Young Architect of the Year: Finalist (1 of 5), DATUM Research Studio.
2016: RIAI/Scott Tallon Walker Student Prize for Excellence: Winner, Sean McMahon.
2016: IDI Graduate Design Awards (Sustainable Design Award): Winner, Stephen Burke.
2016: RIAI Architecture Ireland and Forbo Student Writing Prize: Winner, Ronan Power.
2016: RIBA President’s Silver Medal: Finalist, Chloe Kerins.
2016: Blank Space Competition: Finalists, Kieran Cremin/Eoghan Horgan.
2015: EAAE European Architecture Medals Best Diploma Project: Finalist, Aisling Byrne.
2015: EAAE European Architecture Medals Best Diploma Project: Winners, Kieran Cremin/Eoghan Horgan.
We encourage a distinctive, design-based culture through the development of a conceptual and innovative design. This is achieved by a combination of technical explorations, finding new trajectories in design, and forming programs for advanced spatial analysis. The year will begin with an introduction of the city of study, the theme, and the range of interests for that year. The wider theoretical concerns of the course are then tested and elaborated through an intensive period of fieldwork study in the selected city.
Student Awards
Our students are exposed to national and international architectural competitions and their successes can be viewed in the profile link above. Most recently Áine Walker (MArch 2019-2020) was awarded the distinguished Serjeant Award by the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) for her design project Anamnesis: Connective (Re)Collections based in Lisbon Portugal.
Our students have also achieved European Architectural Medals for Best Diploma Projects. In 2015 Kieran Cremin and Eoghan Horgan's project Entangled City: Reconciling Cultural Dissonance was awarded a European Architectural Medal in Architecture (Prize for Innovation). That year Aisling Byrne was also shortlisted for the European Architectural Medals (Best Diploma Project) for her project Collective Amalgam Ephemeral Traces.
Skills and Careers Information
On graduating from the course you will have the ability to think critically about architecture. You will be able to form studies involving advanced spatial analysis and develop an innovative architectural design. You will also be able to apply an international context when designing. These are supported by your representational skills, including advanced analogue and digital media skills including 2D and 3D CAD and 3D Studio Max, and sophisticated model-making skills. Our graduates are highly sought for this range of expertise.
Many opportunities exist for our graduates both in Ireland and abroad, not only in the field of architecture, but also in other related spatial practices and disciplines, such as film, new media, and exhibition design. The way in which students investigate and develop their design thesis project also means that they are aware of the requirements of postgraduate research, and may choose to pursue available doctoral studies through a PhD by Creative Practice.
Requirements
Entry Requirements
Candidates must meet the following criteria:
(a) Hold a BA/BSc (Hons) degree in Architecture, awarded on the equivalent of not less than 240 ECTS credits, from an accredited school of architecture, passed at Second Class Honours Grade II or higher;
or
(b) *holders of BA/BSc (Hons) Architecture degree with less than Second Class Honours Grade II plus a period of work-based learning presented in the form of a portfolio of a standard equivalent to, or higher than, Second Class Honours Grade II.
*Note: In addition to the minimum criteria, all applicants are required to submit a portfolio of architectural design work to be evaluated by at least two of the following: Centre Director, Associate Director and Programme Coordinator or their nominees who will assess the suitability of the candidate for the Cork Centre for Architectural Education Master of Architecture course. Please view our Portfolio Guidance Document MArch for further information on the requirements of this portfolio.
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