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Architecture BSc Graduate Leads Bartlett Prizewinners at Archisource Drawing of the Year 2022 Awards

20 April 2023

Joe Russell won the prestigious top prize for his graduating project, 鈥楾ightening the Green Belt: Oakwood Mews, Enfield, N14鈥, with five other Bartlett graduates collecting awards and commendations across multiple categories.

Image: 鈥楾ightening the Green Belt: Oakwood Mews, Enfield N14鈥, Joe Russell, Architecture BSc, UG0, Year 3, 2022

The annual competition rewards exceptional skill and ideas in architectural drawing, with entries from students and professionals around the world. The awards series is judged in five categories - the Drawing of the Year Award, the Architectural Award, the Environmental Award, the Narrative Award and the Visualisation Award. This year a total prize fund of 拢30,000 was awarded to the winners, who were judged on the originality of their approach, the style and/or content; the use of media and the graphic and aesthetic quality; their ability to represent and communicate intent or narrative; and the extent of their drawings鈥 impact and proposition.

Bartlett graduate Joe Russell beat thousands of entrants from 95 countries to earn the top prize for the drawings in his final undergraduate project, 鈥楾ightening the Green Belt: Oakwood Mews, Enfield, N14鈥. Responding to housing shortages in the UK, Joe鈥檚 project is sited near a soon-to-be-demolished London Underground depot in North London, and adopts a 鈥榟yper-localised鈥 approach to harvested and salvaged materials. Two-hundred-and-fifty metres from the site is arable land, where straw is be grown for insulation and thatched roofs, and the adjacent pine tree wood provides timber. This localised sourcing significantly reduces the scheme鈥檚 carbon footprint.聽

鈥楾ightening the Green Belt: Oakwood Mews, Enfield, N14鈥

by Joe Russell
Architecture BSc (ARB/RIBA Part 1), UG0, 2022

鈥楾his project responds to the UK鈥檚 increasingly severe housing crisis by proposing that architects need to be more proactively involved in development schemes rather than just wait for commissions to come to them.聽I focused the project on London, regarded as the 鈥榚picentre鈥 of the UK housing crisis. After initial investigations, I decided to tackle the controversial issue of dealing with the 鈥楪reen Belt鈥 surrounding the city. The project proposes a housing/community scheme that challenges existing Green Belt planning policy through a design explicitly predicated on social and ecological benefits. The scheme offers a precedent for sustainable future developments through its hyper-localised approach to material sourcing and construction.鈥

I am delighted to be awarded the Drawing of the Year 2022 for my project Tightening the Green Belt. It is recognition of the hard work put into crafting imagery that best conveys the project's narrative. The award is a reflection of the exemplary teaching environment created by my tutors, Murray Fraser and Michiko Sumi, during my time in Unit UG0."

- Joe Russell

Commenting on Joe鈥檚 winning submission, the judges said,

It鈥檚 refreshing to see such a sophisticated and powerful execution of visual representations of outstanding qualities that are also underpinned by a well-grounded, sustainable narrative and purpose.鈥

Joe studied Architecture BSc (ARB/RIBA Part 1) in unit UG0, tutored by Murray Fraser and Michiko Sumi. His project was exhibited at The Bartlett Summer Show 2022, where he also won a Bartlett School of Architecture Medal for his work.


It was an excellent year for Bartlett graduates, who collected accolades across multiple categories. Annabelle Tan (Architecture MArch, PG11) added to her collection of awards by winning the top prize in the Environmental category for her drawing 鈥楢 Sliver of Housing鈥 from her Architecture MArch (ARB/RIBA Part 2)听辫谤辞箩别肠迟 鈥楶ast, Present and Post-Tropicality鈥. Late last year Annabelle was the first prizewinner in history to collect the Silver, Bronze and Dissertation Medals at the RIBA President鈥檚 Medals, as well as winning first prize in RIBA Journal鈥檚 Eye Line Drawing Competition in 2021, the Donaldson Medal in 2019 and the聽SOM Foundation Fellowship聽in 2019.

Master鈥檚 graduate Zifeng Ye also received a special mention in the same category for his Architecture MArch PG11聽graduating project 鈥楽hanghai Nostalgia鈥. In the Architectural Category, 2021 graduate Yasmin North (Architecture BSc, UG7) was also commended for her project 鈥楾he Shrine to a Priori: A View Behind the Veils鈥. Heather Black (Architecture MArch, PG18) was commended in the Environmental category, for 鈥楾rading Boundaries鈥, while in the Narrative category, Theo Lawless (Architecture MArch, PG12) was highly commended for 鈥楾win Elevation Hung in Cellar Bar鈥 from his project 鈥楢 Weird Pub in the Middle of Nowhere鈥.

All of the recognised graduates鈥 projects were exhibited at The Bartlett Summer Show over the last two years. You can explore their work at our Bartlett Show Archive by visiting the links below.

This year鈥檚 show launches on 25 June and will present the work of undergraduate and graduate students from five of the school鈥檚 programmes.

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Images:
Lead image: 鈥楾ightening the Green Belt: Oakwood Mews, Enfield, N14鈥 by Joe Russell, Architecture BSc (ARB/RIBA Part 1), UG0, 2022
Carousel 1:聽鈥楾ightening the Green Belt: Oakwood Mews, Enfield, N14鈥 by Joe Russell, Architecture BSc (ARB/RIBA Part 1), UG0, 2022
Carousel 2:聽鈥楢 Sliver of Housing鈥 from 鈥楶ast, Present and Post-Tropicality鈥 by Annabelle Tan, Architecture MArch, PG11, 2022
鈥楾he Shrine to a Priori: A View Behind the Veils鈥 by Yasmin North,聽Architecture BSc, UG7, 2021
鈥楽hanghai Nostalgia鈥 by Zifeng Ye,聽Architecture MArch, PG11, 2022
Twin Elevation Hung in Cellar Bar鈥 from聽鈥楢 Weird Pub in the Middle of Nowhere鈥,聽Theo Lawless, Architecture MArch, PG12, 2022
鈥楾rading Boundaries鈥 by聽Heather Black, Architecture MArch, PG18, 2022