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GRADUATE’S PROJECT
SHOWN AT RIBA
PRESIDENT’S MEDALS
STUDENT AWARDS
EXHIBITION
2016-2017 YEARBOOK Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University Department of Architecture 西 交 利 物 浦 大 学 建 筑 系
Sun Chenxing, a 2016 graduate from the Department of Architecture at Xi’an
Jiaotong-Liverpool University (XJTLU), has had his work included in an
award exhibition hosted by the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA)
in London (beginning of December 2016 to the end of January 2017).
The annual RIBA award recognises outstanding projects that architectural
students have developed during their Bachelor and Master programmes at
departments of architecture around the world and is known as the RIBA
President’s Medals Student Awards. Each year a selection of projects entered
into the awards competition are showcased alongside the awarded projects to
promote excellence in architectural education, and to initiate architectural
debate on what architecture could be, and how architectural education
addresses these questions.
The inclusion of Sun Chenxing’s work in the award exhibition is a sign of
the high quality that XJTLU’s Department of Architecture has achieved in
its education in recent years, and highlights the Department’s commitment
to providing its students with an architectural education that addresses
questions on the edge of international discourse, while providing them
with the best possible basis for a start into the life as young architects and
designers.
The RIBA President’s Medals are widely regarded as the most prestigious
international awards in architectural education. Having the work of a
graduate included in the RIBA President’s Medal Exhibition also confirms
the positive feedback that the Department of Architecture received during
the last visit of the RIBA committee in October 2014. The committee very
positively valued the department’s achievements specifically in regards to
creating a new type of international architectural graduate with Chinese roots.
The Final Year Project entitled “Urban Mountain Retreat” was supervised
by Dr. Christiane M. Herr and Dr. Thomas Fischer from the Department of
Architecture at XJTLU.
After his graduation, Sun Chenxing worked for a year in an office in Beijing.
He received offers to continue his education in professional postgraduate
programmes in Architecture from a range of prestigious institutions,
including the University of Edinburgh UK, the University of Melbourne AU,
and the National University of Singapore (NUS). In the autumn of 2017 he
commenced studies in a professional MArch Programme at the University of
Hong Kong.
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