Oxford Brookes UniversityNews
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5 April 2012
The Design Research Exhibitionists
The exhibition by "The Design Research Exhibitionsits" or Research-led Design (RLD) and Major Study(MS) students ran from Friday 24th February to Wednesday 29th February 2012 at Fusion Arts in Oxford.
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14 March 2012
Samira Ahmed visits Oxford Brookes to give a talk about British journalism
The freelance journalist and former Channel 4 News presenter, Samira Ahmed spoke about aspects of British journalism in an open lecture entitled, From Hograth to Hackgate: Does British Journalism have an attitutde problem?
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23 February 2012
Oxford Brookes Architecture student wins international design award
Andrew Edwards has taken second prize in the design category of the annual international architecture student competition run by EDUCATE (Environmental Design in University Curricula and Architectural Training in Europe).
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16 November 2011
Visions of the future: three Oxford Brookes architecture students receive prizes from the RIBA
Three students at Oxford Brookes University's School of Architecture were among the architects and students who received awards at the Royal Institute of British Architects South/South East Awards Presentation 2011.
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15 November 2011
Competition judges commend Oxford Brookes architecture students for the quality and individuality of their work
Timbmet has again sponsored a competition for students of architecture at Oxford Brookes University to design a demountable timber pavilion. The winning design will be erected as part of the TRADA stand at Ecobuild in March 2012. All student models will be displayed on the winning pavilion.
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28 September 2011
Architecture Students nominated for Small Project Award by the Architecture Journal
A number of Oxford Brookes University students, as part of the Architecture Sans Frontières-UK (ASF-UK) project team, were nominated for the sustainability prize at the Architecture Journal's Small Project Awards
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25 September 2011
Year one architects and interior architects design chairs for The Story Museum in Oxford
Oxford Brookes University year one architecture and interior architecture students, working on an OB1 Live Project run by Jane Anderson and Colin Priest, have designed story-telling chairs for The Story Museum in Oxford. Click here for the Oxford Mail online article.
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23 September 2011
Ox.IDE *1: All ARROWS lead to somewhere...
Inter-disciplinary event creates occasion for collaboration between undergraduates in neighbouring schools
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2 March 2011
Winning pavilion design by Oxford Brookes BA Architecture student installed at 2011 Ecobuild Exhibition
Students were encouraged to experiment with form and space, and tasked to design a timber pavilion with a footprint of 20 square metres which would exploit the architectural, aesthetic, structural and sustainable attributes of timber and serve as a showcase for 3D models of all the shortlisted entries.
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2 February 2011
Knowledge transfer with Oxford Brookes University leads to National Award shortlisting for Architectural Practice
A knowledge transfer partnership (KTP) between Oxford Brookes University and the Architectural practice, Architype Ltd has resulted in their being shortlisted for the 'Cut the Carbon' Award category for the 2011 Building Awards, to be announced on March 3rd 2011.
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1 December 2010
Architecture Diploma Graduate awarded Commendation in RIBA President's Medals Student Awards 2010
Recent Oxford Brookes University DipArch Graduate George Wilson has been awarded a Commendation in the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) President's Medals Student Awards Dissertation Prize 2010
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22 November 2010
Major ESRC Grant to lead cutting-edge research on low carbon communities
Low-carbon building and climate change expert, Dr Rajat Gupta, has been awarded a major research grant of £1.14 million by the UK's Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) to lead an interdisciplinary team of researchers from Oxford Brookes University (OBU) and University of Oxford (OU) on a three-year research project worth £1.37 million.
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10 November 2010
Architecture BA graduate is announced second prize winner of Bauhaus Solar Award
In the awards ceremony held in Erfurt, Germany on the 10th November 2010, Matt Townsend was endowed with 1.500 EUR for his innovative 'H2sOlar - Solar powered water filtration facility'. The design was initally produced as part of his 3rd year undergraduate studio work. Done in Semester 1, 2009-2010, it was part of the Unit C studio programme led by Igea Troiani and Andrew Dawson which focused on 'Architecture, Ecology and Science-fiction'.
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1 October 2010
Oxford Brookes Architecture students excel in Buckminster Fuller Institute project
In February 2010, Oxford Brookes University students from the Department of Architecture in Oxford, UK visited the Buckminster Fuller Institute in New York. The group of 25 students were part of a mixed 2nd and 3rd year architectural design studio lead by Igea Troiani and Andrew Dawson.
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6 July 2010
Roots Architecture Challenge
The 1st Roots Architecture Workshop is being held at the WOMAD Roots Architecture festival at Charlton Park from 22nd - 25th July 2010, showcasing sustainable architecture and building projects worldwide in the humanitarian and aid sector, ranging from emergency shelter to community development and buildings.
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6 May 2010
'Make Bethnal Green' winners announced at RIBA
The DS1 Architecture studio at Brookes wiped the boards with competition, producing 7 of the 10 finalists, both joint winners and two further commendations.
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19 April 2010
Architecture student wins Urban Design award
Nick Thorne's project 'The Shambles' is a proposed regeneration of the Osney Mead industrial estate in Oxford.
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21 March 2010
Students work on homes for Haiti
Architecture students at Oxford Brookes University have helped to develop a prototype shelter for victims of the Haiti earthquake.
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January 2010
IARD Students at INTBAU Charrette in Norway
IARD students Chris Millar and Kathryn Hay travelled to Evje in southern Norway to participate in a charrette training course run by the International Network for Traditional Buildings Architecture and Urbanism (INTBAU). They joined architects, urban designers and other built environment professionals from around the world to participate in this collaborative design workshop involving a wide range of stakeholders.
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31 January 2010
Brookes students' salve for Penthakota fishermen
Fourteen students from the Centre for Development and Emergency Practice pledge to help mitigate the suffering of Penthakosta fishing communities with the help of a Delhi-based voluntary organization.
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11 January 2010
Nicholas Whitehouse gains MBE
The former chairman of Terrapin, currently employed as Business Development and Research Advisor in the School of the Built Environment Technology Research Group has been awarded an MBE in the new years honours list for services to the building industry.
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9 January 2010
Adapting to a changing climate: a three-year UK Research Council-funded project
Oxford Brookes University is co-leading a cutting-edge research project which seeks to answer the question - how existing suburban neighbourhoods in the UK can be best adapted to reduce further impacts of climate change and withstand ongoing changes?
