The Civic Trust Awards National Panel are a representative group of experts who make the final decision on the level of awards to be given, ensuring national consistency.
David Prichard is a director of Metropolitan Workshop LLP. The practice’s recent work embraces architectural, urban design and regional planning commissions for government agencies, local authorities and major developers in Ireland, Norway, Jordan, Libya, Sudan and the UK. David has been a RIBA external examiner, guest critic and lectured at numerous universities and judged several awards and international competitions. As a Civic Trust Awards assessor for many years, David was invited onto the National Panel of judges which he has chaired since 2004.
Martin is a former Director of the Civic Trust and past President of the RTPI. His planning experience includes periods with Cheshire and Leicestershire County Councils and with the City of Toronto Planning Board. He was Director of Planning for West Yorkshire Metropolitan County up until 1986. Now retired, he ran his own planning consultancy.
Keith Bright is Director of Keith Bright Consultants and Emeritus Professor of Inclusive Environments at the University of Reading. He is Chair of the RIBA’s Inclusive Design Committee, and a member of the Building Regulation Advisory Committee (BRAC) – with a special interest Part M. Keith is a consultant member of the National Register of Access Consultant (NRAC), the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors (RICS), the Inclusive Environment Consultant Scheme (IEC) and is Chairman of the NRAC Advisory Group. Keith joined the Civic Trust Awards National Panel in 2007. His many publications include ‘The Access Manual’, ‘Buildings for all to use’, ‘The Building Regulations Explained’ and ‘The Colour, Light and Contrast Manual’.
Nicole has worked in the field of built environment education for ten years and is Director of the Building Exploratory in Hackney, a unique organisation that aims to capture the imagination of local communities, helping them to develop their knowledge of how the area developed in the past and involving them in the changes taking place in the present. Nicole began her career in the Architecture Unit at Arts Council England and has been involved with the UK Architecture Centre Network since its inception. As a former Assistant Director at the Architecture Foundation, she has a PhD from the University of Edinburgh and is a trustee of the Greenwich Foundation.
Having worked for the Civic Trust for over 43 years, Victor was involved with the Civic Trust Awards from its inception in 1959 and continues to play an active role on both the National Panel and Advisory Group.
Helen is an independent policy consultant working to support the creation of sustainable communities. Helen is appointed as a specialist advisor to the Government’s CLG Select Committee, a CABE Enabler, a Building for Life Accredited Assessor, and an expert contributor to CABE’s Sustainable Cities programme. Having held posts in the Government’s Neighbourhood Renewal Unit, Secretariat for the Egan Review of Sustainable Communities Skills, Academy for Sustainable Communities and the Environment Agency she also has a background in local authority planning and conservation policy. Helen’s previous academic posts include the Universities of Sussex, UCL London, Brighton, Leeds and Portsmouth and she has also published on a range of built environment topics.
Max Fordham founded Max Fordham LLP in 1966 and pursued a new approach to engineering practice based on his own insatiable curiosity about how buildings work. He resisted pigeonholing into the conventional boxes of engineering; mechanical or electrical. He was always interested in the whole building, taking a creative but essentially practical approach to building services design, starting “with the edge of the universe as its boundary and then quickly narrowing down to the specific problem”. The firm he founded continues with the same philosophy, including its commitment to working as a partnership. In 2008 Max was honoured with the Prince Philip Designers Prize by the Design Council, recognised as “a pioneer of environmental design for buildings.
Keith is design director and founder of London based Keith Williams Architects, a multi-award winning architectural design practice with a fast growing international reputation for the creation of dramatic, innovative sustainable architecture. Founded in 2001, the firm has received 25 major design awards and was twice winner of the prestigious BD Public Building Architect of the Year Award in 2006 & 2008.
The firm works internationally across a broad range of sectors for public and private clients and is a leading specialist designer of museum, gallery, library, civic and performing arts buildings. Keith Williams Architectsʼ broader portfolio includes commercial development, residential projects, high rise towers, one off high end houses, and urban design and masterplanning studies.
The firm employs a multi-national multi-lingual staff based in the firmʼs central London studio. Williamsʼ major projects include Athlone Civic Centre, Co. Westmeath 2001-2004, the new 7,235 sqm, 780 seat Wexford Opera House 2005 - 2008, and Clones Library & County HQ, Co. Monaghan 2004-2008 all in Ireland. Elsewhere, inter alia, the firmʼs award winning Unicorn Theatre, London was completed 2005, The Long House, London in 2006, whilst at design stage the firm is working on the new Art Gallery in Athlone, Ireland. The firmʼs Marlowe Theatre complex in Canterbury, and district Museum in Chichester, UK are both under construction and will complete in 2011. The firmʼs first high rise tower in London is a design stage.
Keith Williams is a member of the Royal Institute of Architects of Ireland, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, a member of the Royal Institute of British Architects and sits on the National Design Review panel at Design Council CABE. He has judged numerous major award schemes, lectured widely on architecture and his firmʼs work and has recently been made Honorary Visiting Professor of Architecture at Zhengzhou University, China.
Keith Williams Architects has been successful in numerous national and international architectural competitions, and its work has been published worldwide. “Keith Williams : Architecture of the Specific”, the first major monograph on the firmʼs work was published by Images Publishing of Melbourne Australia as part of their Master Architects Series in December 2009.
Bridget is a qualified architect and urban designer. She is currently CEO of the Architecture Centre Network. Until recently she ran her own cultural regeneration consultancy for 9 years, including two years as part-time Co-Director of Art, Art on Greenwich Peninsula delivering a programme of art in the public realm on behalf of a consortium comprising the Homes and Communities Agency, the two developers; Greenwich Peninsula Regeneration Limited and Greenwich Millennium Village Ltd; Arts Council England and Greenwich Council. Bridget was employed by Arts Council England to co-ordinate the research and initial delivery of Turning Point, the Arts Council of England’s 10-year strategy for the contemporary visual arts.
She has provided expertise on cultural regeneration to: Homes and Communities Agency; several local authorities; Arts Council England; SEEDA; Big Architecture team at SMC Alsop; and been Secretariat to the London Development Agency’s International Design Committee. She has provided consultancy advice to the Architecture Foundation, The Building Exploratory and other architecture centres. She was an advisor to Yorkshire Forward’s Urban Renaissance Panel, involved in the appointment of Panel members and advising on the pilot programme. Bridget was previously Head of Regions at CABE and prior to that as Senior Architect at Arts Council England assessing and monitoring the quality of design and involvement of artists for lottery funded arts capital projects. Bridget spent nearly 10 years as an architect at BDP working on a range of transport, heritage and arts buildings.
She is a member of the SE Design Review Panel and Wakefield City Panel, and several architecture advisory groups. She was a specialist external assessor for arts buildings for Arts Council England and Scottish Arts Council. She has lectured and spoken at numerous events and conferences, written and contributed to a range of publications nationally and internationally.
Wayne has 15 years’ experience working on a series of projects, including healthcare, further education, universities and schools. He is currently BDP’s Project Director working on the master plan for Moorfields Eye Hospital NHS Trust Foundation.
This year Wayne led a BDP team based in Delhi to success an international competition for the design of a new campus for the Indian Institutes of Technology in the foothills of the Himalayas. A new higher education campus in the forested hills of Kamand is one of the latest of a new generation of Indian Institute’s of Technology being promoted by the government of India. The purpose of the new Institute is to research innovative, environmentally sensitive products and processes for the development of the Himalayan region.
His portfolio of schools includes an exemplar design for the DfES Building Schools for the Future initiative. He developed proposals for a zero carbon emissions primary school and youth centre, as part of officially designated Greenspace at Crouch Hill Community Park, for the London Borough of Islington. As director, Wayne led the ‘Transform Schools’ design team to success in BSF Islington reinventing eight major secondary schools in the Borough, including Civic Trust Commended Highbury Grove School and the Elizabeth Garret Anderson School for Girls, to be opened in 2012 by Michelle Obama.
He also leads the design team for City College Norwich, an innovative design which seeks to showcase the twelve vocational schools within the College, including Creative Arts theatre (completing 2012), Hotel and Catering, Hair, Beauty and Leisure Industries, aiming for targeted BREAAM excellent, zero carbon campus. He is a member of the RIBA Forum organising the appointment of UK wide Client Design Advisors and several RIBA groups including the RIBA awards short listing panel.
He is a Design Council CABE Enabler assessing education and healthcare projects. He is visiting critic at Westminster University Studio 7 and is a Stephen Lawrence Trust Mentor. Wayne is an honourable trustee of the ‘Learning from Jawali’ village school project northern India. Finally, this year he is self publishing an unusual reference book titled ‘The Dictionary of Detail’.
Wayne joins the National Panel as our first Corporate Member Representative.
The Civic Trust Awards Patrons act as Ambassador, promoting the scheme to industry and the general public.
Civic Trust Awards Design Patron Chris Wilkinson OBE RA is founding partner and Principal of Wilkinson Eyre Architects who have won over 120 national and international design awards. These include Civic Trust Awards for the Arena and Convention Centre in Liverpool, which also received a Special Award for Evening Economy in 2009 and Liverpool One Masterplan which won the Special Award for Sustainability in 2010. Wilkinson Eyre Architects were announced as the RIBA Stirling Prize winners for two consecutive years in 2001 and 2002. Chris takes a strategic overview of each project from conception to construction and a special interest in key projects where his wealth of experience and clear design philosophy are invaluable. Chris also pursues academic interests through teaching, lecturing, writing and painting.
Civic Trust Awards Media Patron George Clarke is an architect and presenter of ‘Restoration Man’ and ‘The Home Show’ on Channel 4. Born and raised in Sunderland, from the age of 12 George wanted to be an architect. After studying at the University of Newcastle and University College London, George started his own practice, award winning clarke:desai. He is passionate about the way architecture can transform our everyday lives and his aim is to make architecture popular and accessible to the public. George has help raise awareness of the Civic Trust Awards amongst the general public, encouraging them to participate in the scheme by volunteering as local community advisors. George also presents the Awards Ceremony in March each year.
