RIBA Stirling Prize 2006 RIBA Stirling 2006 Judges

Award-winning architecture journalist Isabel Allen has been editor of The Architects’ Journal, co-sponsor of the RIBA Stirling Prize, since 1999. She is a regular on the judging panels of architectural awards and by her own admission spends a good deal of working life looking around buildings with architects, not just in the UK, but in the United States and across Europe.

Isabel completed her BA at the University of Manchester before going on to complete parts I and II of her architecture degree at the Universities of Westminster and the South Bank. She is the author of Structure as Design: 23 Projects that Wed Structure and Interior Design.

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Stefan Behnisch

Architect

Since founding the architecture office of Behnisch & Partner Büro Innenstadt in 1989, Stefan Behnisch has directed the design of dynamic, award-winning buildings that promote sustainability within the built environment. His design portfolio includes public buildings, sports facilities, offices, schools, and museums, all characterised by a desire to provide maximum benefit to the communities that use them.

Behnisch recently served as the Eero Saarinen Visiting Professor at the Yale School of Architecture, returning to the post in autumn 2006. Behnisch has previously served as a visiting lecturer at University of Stuttgart and as an external examiner at the University of Portsmouth, UK and at Bergen Architecture School, Norway. In 2001, he was a guest professor at the University of Texas in Austin, and he is a frequent lecturer to both public and professional audiences.

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Mariella Frostrup

Broadcaster and journalist

Mariella Frostrup has firmly established herself at the top end of opinion forming journalists and TV presenters in the UK. In her fifteen years in television, Mariella has appeared in programmes on subjects from current affairs, including Panorama and Question Time, to movies and the arts. She current presents Open Book and fronted the recent Memory Season on Radio Four.

Mariella is also the film critic for Harpers And Queen and has a weekly dilemma column in The Observer Magazine for whom she also writes major interviews. As a respected arts critic she has sat on the judging panels of various awards, including the Booker Prize, the Orange Prize for Fiction, the Evening Standard Film Awards, the Amnesty International Media Awards, the Whitbread Book Of The Year, the London Film Festival and the RIBA Awards 2006.

Ian Ritchie

Architect

As director of Ian Ritchie Architects and co founder of design engineer Rice Francis Ritchie, Ian has earned an international reputation for innovation and intelligent environmental and sustainable design.

He has contributed to major new works throughout Europe, including the Reina Sofia Museum of Modern Art in Madrid, the Leipzig Glass Hall, the Louvre Sculpture Courts and Pyramids and La Villette Cite des Sciences in Paris, and the Jubilee Line Extension and International Regatta Centre in London.

His practice has received many awards, including shortlistings for the Stirling Prize. Ian has been awarded a CBE for services to architecture, the French Academie d'Architecture Silver Medal and a Hon. Doctor of Letters from the University of Westminster.

Ian has been a visiting Professor to Universities in Moscow, Vienna and Leeds, and has taught at the Architectural Association and University of Westminster, and regularly lectures internationally on architecture, art and urbanism.

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Martha Schwartz

Landscape architect and artist

Martha Schwartz is a landscape architect and artist with a major interest in urban projects and the exploration of new design expression in the landscape. As principal of Martha Schwartz Partners in London and Cambridge, Massachusetts, her goal is to design landscapes that enhance their social, environmental, and economic context, and raise them to a level of fine art. In her 28-year career, she has collaborated with a variety of world-renowned architects on a diverse portfolio of projects.

Martha has won numerous awards and prizes, including the Cooper-Hewitt Museum National Design Award for her body of work in Landscape Architecture, a fellowship from the Urban Design Institute, an honorary fellowship from the RIBA and several design awards from the American Society of Landscape Architects. She has also held visiting residencies at Radcliffe College and the American Academy in Rome and is a professor of Landscape Architecture at Harvard University's Graduate School of Design, where she has taught since 1992.

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