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Edward Cullinan CBE wins the Royal Gold Medal for architecture
9th October 2007
Edward Cullinan has been awarded one of architecture’s most prestigious prizes, the Royal Gold Medal.
Cullinan is the first British architect to be awarded the honour since Archigram in 2002, and only the fourth in the past 20 years. The honour recognises Cullinan’s work which includes over 110 buildings, his keen awareness of the natural environment, and his deep engagement with those who use and experience buildings. His RMC Headquarters (1990) in Surrey, is perhaps the clearest example of these qualities, through its innovative low energy naturally ventilated offices, pioneering workplace design and exemplary response to the existing buildings and landscape.
Ted Cullinan (born 1931) was educated at Cambridge University, the Architectural Association and the University of California, Berkeley before working for Denys Lasdun where he designed the student residences for the University of East Anglia. Since founding Edward Cullinan Architects in 1965, Cullinan has worked to ensure a holistic approach to building production: sustainability and consultation have been central to the practice’s building techniques long before they became widely accepted. Ted Cullinan was awarded a CBE in 1987 for Services to Architecture, elected a Royal Academician in 1989, and an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Incorporation of Architects in Scotland in 1995. In 2005, he was awarded a Special Commendation as part of the Prince Philip Designers Prize, for his outstanding lifetime achievement in design.
