Judging Starts for RIBA Stirling Awards

The panel of judges will visit each of the 6 shortlisted schemes over 4 days covering Berlin, Rome, London, Oxford and Guildford.  They will then come together on 2^nd October to make their final decision about the winner; the prize will be presented that evening at The Roundhouse, London and broadcast live as part of a special edition of BBC TWO's The Culture Show.

The shortlisted schemes are: 

• Ashmolean Museum, Oxford by Rick Mather Architects
• Bateman's Row, London by Theis and Khan
• Christ's College School, Guildford by DSDHA
• Clapham Manor Primary School, London by dRMM 
• MAXXI, National Museum of XXI Century Arts, Rome by Zaha Hadid Architects 
• Neues Museum, Berlin by David Chipperfield Architects with Julian Harrap Architects

The 2010 judging panel consists of architects Ruth Reed former RIBA President, Edward Jones of Dixon Jones and Ivan Harbour of Rogers Stirk Harbour & Partners, Broadcaster Mark Lawson, author and academic Lisa Jardine. 

Ruth Reed, BA DipArch, MA, RIBA President and Chair of judging

Ruth Reed is President of the RIBA from 2009-2011 and is Course Director of the Postgraduate Diploma in Architectural Practice at the Birmingham School of Architecture. She practiced as an architect between 1992 and 2005, running Reed Architects, specialising in sustainable rural design particularly for self-builders. Between 2002 and 2004 she was a fee-paid planning inspector determining built environment appeals. She is now partner in Green Planning Solutions, a consultancy specialising in rural casework.

Her involvement at the RIBA stretches over fifteen years in a variety of roles.  Between 2003 and 2005 she was President of the Royal Society of Architects in Wales.

Professor Lisa Jardine, CBE, PhD, writer and historian

Lisa Jardine CBE is Centenary Professor of Renaissance Studies at Queen Mary, University of London and Chair of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority. She is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, an Honorary Fellow of King's College and Jesus College, Cambridge, and holds honorary doctorates from St Andrews, Sheffield Hallam and the Open University. She is a Trustee of the V&A, Patron of the Archives and Records Association and Patron of the Orange Prize. She is the author of a number of best-selling history books, of which Going Dutch won the 2009 Cundill International History prize.

Ivan Harbour, BSc Dip Arch, partner at Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners and previous year's winner

Ivan cut his teeth on Lloyd's of London and led the design of the European Court of Human Rights and Bordeaux Law Courts. In 2007 the name of the practice was changed in recognition of Ivan and Graham Stirk's contribution.

Projects designed and realised under Ivan's supervision include: Maggie's, London, winner of the 2009 RIBA Stirling Prize; Oxley Woods, sustainable and affordable housing in Milton Keynes, UK; Terminal 4 Barajas Airport Madrid, winner of the 2006 RIBA Stirling Prize and; Law Courts in Antwerp. Significantly, these projects have all been recognised by either RIBA National, European or International awards.

Edward Jones, AA Dip (Hons) RIBA, partner Dixon Jones

Edward Jones is a Director in the London based practice of Dixon Jones, architects to numerous arts and university projects, most notably the Royal Opera House, the National Portrait Gallery, the East Wing of the National Gallery and the Saïd Business School.  He has taught extensively in North America, Ireland and Britain. His book 'A Guide to the Architecture of London', with Christopher Woodward, was published by Weidenfeld & Nicholson in 1983 and last revised in 2009.  He has been honoured by the universities of Portsmouth and Cardiff and was appointed a Trustee to the Royal Portsmouth Dockyard in 2004.

Mark Lawson, BA, broadcaster and writer

Mark Lawson is an award-winning broadcaster, journalist and novelist. He presents BBC Radio 4's arts magazine Front Row. Mark has demonstrated his enthusiasm for architecture not only by frequently featuring architecture in his programmes but more directly as the presenter of the RIBA's President's Medals and as a London judge in the RIBA Awards.  He has been a Guardian columnist since 1995. As presenter initially of the BBC's The Late Show and latterly  Late Review, he is known for an acerbic wit, and for crediting his audience with at least as much intelligence as the people he is interviewing.