RIBA Stirling Prize 2007 Judges

Date Published:

24/06/2008

We take a look at the judges who will be forming the panel for the RIBA Stirling Prize 2007.

Tom Bloxham

Chair, Urban Splash
Tom Bloxham is chair and co-founder of Urban Splash, a property development firm that specialises in transforming difficult, often industrial sites that no one else will tackle into thriving mixed use developments. Using this Midas touch he’s been jaw-droppingly successful; since the company’s birth in 1993, Urban Splash has already regenerated over a million square feet of commercial and residential space, scooping almost as many accolades along the way.
www.urbansplash.co.uk

Alain de Botton

Author and philosopher
Alain is well known to 4Homes readers for his insightful explorations into the relationship between happiness and the home environment. He’s also an eminent journalist, novelist and philosopher whose works of fiction and non-fiction consistently achieve both critical acclaim and commercial success in equally awe-inspiring measure. In particular, The Architecture of Happiness has been touted by critics as one of the most important architectural texts of our time.
www.alaindebotton.com

Louisa Hutton

Architect
Louisa Hutton, first class graduate of Bristol University’s long-heralded architecture department, has more recently been overseeing international projects for Sauerbruch Hutton, the firm she helped to found and build into a business now celebrated in the global architectural community. Her company has been responsible for triumphs including Sydney’s Museum of Art and Germany’s Federal Agency for the Environment. In between, Louisa has found time to guest lecture at universities across the globe.
www.sauerbruchhutton.de

Kieran Long

Editor, The Architects' Journal
Kieran Long is the current editor of The Architects’ Journal and is more broadly an architecture journalist, critic and teacher based in London. He was the launch deputy editor of Icon magazine in 2003, and its principal architecture critic for three and a half years. He is also the former deputy editor of Building Design and World Architecture magazines. His work has appeared in The Guardian and Independent newspapers, Architects Journal, Art Review, Wallpaper and Modern Painters, as well as a plethora of international publications too numerous to list.
www.kieranlong.com
http://www.architectsjournal.co.uk

Sunand Prasad

Architect and RIBA President
Sunand Prasad is the enigmatic president elect of RIBA (Royal Insititute of British Architects). After graduating from Cambridge he co-founded Penoyre & Prasad Architects, multi-award winning designers of primarily large-scale civic projects. Sunand has also earned the right to sit as a commissioner for the UK Government’s Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment from its inception in 1999.
www.sunandprasad.co.uk
www.architecture.com
wwww.penoyre-prasad.net

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