Comments on: RIBA President’s Medals Student Awards 2011

By: ernie

ernie — Sat, 07 Apr 2012 17:11:46 +0000

And still, I would not have this future architect design my house. Maybe a 3d model of it.

By: ahol

ahol — Mon, 19 Dec 2011 09:45:22 +0000

The negative comments here are obviously made by the Bartlett-bashers – this skills-deficit jealousy gets very tiresome. Its the first time a Bartlett project has won in years so untwist your knickers and go read a Corb book or something.

Congratulations to Kibwe Tavares, who will be laughing all the way to a well paid job in film or game design, leaving the disdainful inertia of the flagging architecture profession behind.

By: mommus

mommus — Mon, 12 Dec 2011 12:11:03 +0000

Beautiful animation. But worthy of an architecture award? I don’t think so.

If a mechanical engineering student submitted an abstract oil painting of a bridge as his final year project would he be within rights to qualify it as ‘expanding the definition of engineering’ when his lecturers asked “WTF is this?”

By: Jim

Jim — Sat, 10 Dec 2011 07:36:06 +0000

No wonder most of the architecture out there is so dull, mind numbing, money driven and, as a consequence, meaningless rubbish. A young student tries to stretch his medium, tries to engage with the not so salubrious bits of London, shows deep passion for his subject and works extremely hard to realise his vision in a medium that is apt and interesting… and all you get is moans?

Architecture isn't one thing nor should it be… Futurism, Lebbeus Woods, Archigram, Superstudio, and others too numerous to mention here, have all contributed to architecture not because of their detailing skills but because of either the compelling nature of their graphic presentations or the force of their ideas. Even Plato and St Thomas Aquinas have had a profound effect on Architecture!

To criticise this work for not being "Architecture" is to display a pretty limited and limiting definition of what is Architecture… I love it. Congratulations Kibwe Tavares.

By: LOW

LOW — Fri, 09 Dec 2011 15:46:56 +0000

I never comment much on any of the stories, but I strongly believe that no one should undermine or belittle student work, in this case, I'm pretty sure this animation is the result of laborious research, all-nighters and a couple of years of hard dilligence. I just think we shouldn't be so swift as to dismiss any project initiative just because we get a quick snippet of it, or because it's not a silent movie about the deconstruction of some Alvar Aalto building…. just saying….