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Bartlett graduate shortlisted for World Architecture Festival 2017 Award
7 July 2017
The work of a former Bartlett student has been shortlisted for a World Architecture Festival Award, in the Future Projects category. The winners will be announced in November at the WAF in Berlin.
Abdullah Al-Dabbous, a recent graduate from The Bartlett School of Architecture鈥檚聽MA Architecture and Historic Urban Environments (MAHUE) programme, has been shortlisted for the renowned聽World Architecture Festival Awards. His project, Revolution 4.0, Cairo, Egypt, has been nominated聽in the 鈥樷�� category.聽
The shortlist includes distinguished international practices聽such as Allford Hall Monaghan Morris, Form4 Architecture,聽Wilkinson Eyre and Zaha Hadid Architects. Being selected as a聽finalist聽for a World Architecture Festival聽award represents a major achievement:聽Professor Murray Fraser of The Bartlett notes that聽鈥渋t is highly unusual, possibly unprecedented, for a student project to get this far in the WAF competition鈥�.
The winners 鈥撀燾hosen聽from well over 900 entries聽from 68 countries 鈥� will be announced at the World Architecture Festival, which runs 15-17 November聽in Berlin. They will decided by a panel of international judges, made up of over a hundred professionals and聽chaired by Robert Ivy, chief executive officer of the American Institute of Architects.聽
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The following text was published on 16 June 2017:
Bartlett graduate given Honourable Mention in international sustainable design competition
Abdullah Al-Dabbous, who graduated last year聽from the MA Architecture and Historic Urban Environments (MAHUE) programme, has been given an Honourable Mention in聽the renowned S.Arch International Architecture聽Awards for projects (built or speculative)聽which promote聽sustainable design.
The Honourable Mention was for Abdullah鈥檚 MAHUE design thesis project,聽entitled 鈥楻evolution 4.0鈥�.聽In it, he proposes strategic interventions into Cairo鈥檚 poorer neighbourhoods that can provide housing and employment for the large numbers of homeless聽street children there.
His design聽tutor, Professor Murray Fraser, notes: 鈥淎bdullah has created a remarkable project, based on precise sociological research and inventive design-and-build methods. It has聽enabled聽him to conceive new structures to be聽slotted in and around聽the elevated motorways in Cairo that have become, due to their age, an integral聽part of the city鈥檚 fabric. As such, his project shows the innovation and freshness of student聽investigations on the MAHUE programme, the only one of its kind in the world.鈥�
The S.Arch Awards were judged in Hong Kong as part of the S.Arch International Architecture聽Conference, held聽7鈥�9 June聽2017.聽Abdullah鈥檚 project was shortlisted from a聽range of submissions by聽leading international聽architects and university teams.
Image: Part of Abdullah Ahmed Al-Dabbous鈥檚 project聽鈥楻evolution 4.0鈥�, Cairo, Egypt