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UEL Architecture Graduate selected for ‘Class of 2007’ by Building Design

Friday 10 August 2007

Kiyoaki Takeda, who graduated this summer with his Graduate Diploma  in Architectural Design at the University of East London (UEL), has been selected as one of the ten 'Class of 2007' UK diploma students by Building Design Magazine. He was this week also nominated for an RIBA Silver Medal.

Kiyoaki (25) of Ham Park Road, Stratford, was nominated after winning UEL’s School of Architecture and the Visual Arts (AVA) Head of Schools prize in June for his final project, an exciting design for an education centre based on existing industrial buildings.

Kiyoaki, who is now joining the prestigious David Chipperfield practice in London, said: “It’s nice to receive this recognition. I came to UEL because it has a good reputation for architecture internationally. There is a great atmosphere here, and I look forward to keeping in touch with my tutors and friends.”

He previously studied at Tokai University, and worked for four years at the Tokai Yoshimatsu Laboratory and for an architecture firm in Tokyo.

Signy Svalastoga, Subject Director for Architecture at UEL, said: “This is great news for Kiyoaki, but I have to say not at all surprising. This year has produced some of our best-ever results, and a very exciting time for our School of Architecture and the Visual Arts.

UEL’s School of Architecture and the Visual Arts is among the UK’s leading centres for Architecture and attracts students from all over the world, many of whom go on to create award-winning buildings.

Following this year’s successful introduction of MA Architecture: Alternative Urbanisms and MSc Architecture: Material Matters, September 2008 will see the launch of UEL’s new MA Landscape Architecture and a unique Professional Doctorate in Architecture.

Tutor Mark Hayduk said: “Kiyoaki’s Diploma project was exceptional in its precision of intention and resonance with its context. In a time when Architecture is preoccupied with interest in complexity and ‘new’ forms, it is refreshing and somewhat radical to see a student whose work is framed by a strategy to work carefully with a found architecture, and whose ideology is underpinned by reticence. Kiyoaki developed a composition of buildings that reveals a sensibility towards the local culture, invites occupation and offers optimism for a landscape in transition”

For further information, visit www.uel.ac.uk/ava or contact Christine Wade on 020 8223 3295.

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Notes to Editors

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