The Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) has today (Thursday 24 September) announced the 2016 RIBA Honorary Fellowships, which will be awarded to fourteen individuals from a diverse spectrum of backgrounds, including the worlds of construction, media, education and the arts.

The 2016 RIBA Honorary Fellowships will be awarded to:
• John Brooks – Vice Chancellor, Manchester Metropolitan University
• Caroline Cole – architectural consultant
• Dame Vivien Duffield DBE – philanthropist and client
• Kristin Feireiss – architecture curator, writer and editor
• Kate Goodwin – Head of Architecture and Drue Heinz Curator, Royal Academy
• Charles Knevitt – journalist, author and former Director of the RIBA Trust
• Peter and Annaliese Latz – landscape architects, Germany
• Sasha Lubetkin – curator
• Alison Nimmo CBE, FRICS, MRTPI, FICE – Chief Executive, The Crown Estate
• Grayson Perry – artist
• Richard Steer – quantity surveyor and patron of architecture, Gleeds
• Martha Thorne – Executive Director of the Pritzker Prize, Planner and Urbanist
• Heinz Wirz – publisher

The lifetime honour allows recipients to use the initials Hon FRIBA after their name.

The 2016 RIBA Honorary Fellowships will be presented at a special event at the RIBA, 66 Portland Place, London, W1 on 1 February 2016.

>> https://www.architecture.com/Awards/RGM/RGM2016/Royal_Gold_Medal_2016.aspx

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