VIDEO; Neave Brown architect - RIBA Gold Medal for Architecture 2018 Winner

RIBA Gold Medal for Architecture 2018 Winner

British Architect Neave Brown Royal Institute of British Architects Award, England, UK

Alexandra Road Estate, Camden, London building by Neave Brown:

29 Sep 2017

RIBA Gold Medal for Architecture 2018 Winner

Neave Brown wins Royal Gold Medal for architecture

• UK’s highest honour for architecture is approved personally by Her Majesty The Queen

• Awarded to a pioneer of quality public housing

• Brown is the only living architect to have all their UK work listed

British Architect Neave Brown

photo © Gareth Gardner

The Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) is pleased to announce Neave Brown will receive the 2018 Royal Gold Medal, the UK’s highest honour for architecture. Given in recognition of a lifetime’s work, the RIBA Gold Medal for Architecture is approved personally by Her Majesty The Queen and is given to a person or group of people who have had a significant influence ‘either directly or indirectly on the advancement of architecture’.

Photos courtesy of RIBA

Neave Brown, the revered Modernist architect, is perhaps best known for his visionary 1970s Alexandra Road estate near Swiss Cottage built by Camden Council. With its striking stepped concrete terraces and spacious flats, not only does it provide 500 homes but, in Neave’s own words, it’s ”a piece of city”, containing shops, workshops, a community centre, special needs school, children’s centre, a care home for young people with learning difficulties and a 16,000sq m public park.

Brown believes every home should have its own front door opening directly onto a network of routes and streets that make up a city, as well as its own private external space, open to the sky, in the form of a roof garden or terrace. Each of these qualities was incorporated by Brown at Alexandra Road.

Widely regarded as his masterpiece, Alexandra Road was the culmination of lessons learnt from Brown’s other projects including:

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