Our special evening honoring the innovative winners of The 2nd Annual BrickStainable Design Competition features keynote speaker Alan Short principal at Short & Associates, chartered architects, and Professor of Architecture at Cambridge University. The Awards Evening is an opportunity to celebrate with the winners, meet the jurors, observe award-winning entries, see creative design concepts, meet building industry executives and network with peers in the design built industry. The event will be held at the National Building Museum.

Keynote Speaker

Alan Short, MA DipArch RIBA FRSA
Professor of Architecture at Cambridge University

Alan Short is the Principal in Short & Associates, chartered architects, and the Professor of Architecture at Cambridge University. The practice pursues the design of research level sustainable public buildings for a wide variety of activities in the UK and abroad, including, recently, the downdraught cooled School of Slavonic and East European Studies in Bloomsbury and the mixed mode Judson College Academic Centre in Chicago. It has also recently completed the innovative Braunstone Health and Social Care Centre in Leicester and is extremely interested in extending its fundamental green design approach to the problem of making sustainable buildings for health.

The practice has won the first 'High Architecture, Low Energy Award' (Architecture Today) 1995; 'Green Building of the Year' (The Independent) 1995; H.J. Dyos Award 1996, 'Building of the Year Award' (Building Magazine) 2000, Society of College, National and University Librarians (SCONUL) 'Best Academic Library Award' 1998-2003; CIBSE 'Project of the Year' 2003 & 2004; RIBA Awards 2000 & 2003

About The National Building Museum

When most people think of a museum, they are likely to think of the things exhibited there—paintings, Moon rocks, totem poles, or other objects of artistic, scientific, or cultural value. Of course, the National Building Museum has always offered visitors the chance to see many interesting objects, from drawings by famous architects to a full-scale, sustainable house built in our own galleries. Indeed, the care, interpretation, and thoughtful display of such artifacts are central to our mission.

The Museum is, however, much more than a repository of things, beautiful and intriguing though they may be. It is above all a forum for the development, exploration, and exchange of ideas. Created by an act of Congress in 1980, the National Building Museum has become one of the world’s most prominent and vital venues for informed, reasoned debate about the built environment and its impact on people’s lives. Our exhibitions, educational programs, and publications are well regarded not only for their capacity to enlighten and entertain, but also as vehicles for fostering lively discussion about a wide range of topics related to development, architecture, construction and engineering, interior design, landscape architecture, and urban planning. Read More…