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Alan Montgomery Jones (born 1964) is a chartered architect. The website http://leadinginstitute-leadingprofession.com/ outlines his campaign for the 2016 election as President of the RIBA - in which he received 44% of the final vote. He was Director of Education (Architecture) at Queen's University from 2008 to October 2016. Alan was nationally elected to RIBA Council in 2015. In September 2015 he received unanimous approval of RIBA Council to be their Vice President of Education for 2015-17. In March 2016 Alan accepted an Honorary Fellowship from the Royal Incorporation of Architects in Scotland. Alan has been a member of the RSUA Council from 1998 to 2006 and 2007 to 2016. From 2001 to 2002 he was Hon. Vice-President (Education) of the RIBA. He has served as a judge for RIBA and RSUA awards and the prestigious Scottish RIAS Andrew Doolan Prize. His own work has been awarded several times. In May 2012 he became the President of the Royal Society of Ulster Architects for 2012-14. In December 2016, through application and peer review, Alan was made a Fellow of the RIBA for his contribution to practice, education and the profession.
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Practice
Having previous experience with London-based Michael Hopkins and Partners and as an associate with David Morley Architects, Jones returned to Northern Ireland in 1998 to take up private practice as principal of Alan Jones Architects and to teach at the School of Architecture, Queens University Belfast.
He has since realised numerous projects, including the stainless steel-clad farmhouse extension at Cranfield (RIBA Award 1999); Straidhavern School; his family home in Randalstown; and an office for a coffee importer in Belfast, which received a special mention in the Architectural Association of Ireland awards 2004.
His Randalstown house received the RSUA Design Award for residential projects and a RIBA Award and shortlisted for the RIBA Manser Medal.
Projects also include the Strabane Arts Centre, a joint project by Glenn Howells Architects, Birmingham and Alan Jones Architects - which gained an RSUA Award and was shortlisted for a RIBA Award.
His work has featured in various publications - Domus (Milan), Wallpaper*, Architecture Today, Blueprint, Vision (Shanghai), Hinge (Hong Kong), and the Sunday Times. The Daily Telegraph (London) listed Jones as one of the UK's "top notch architects". His work has also been included in technical publications including Birkhauser's Fibre Cement: Technology and Design (2006) and the RIBA Guide to Architectural Insitu Concrete (2007).
Teaching
Since 2008 Jones has concentrated on managing and leading the teaching of architecture in Queen's University. Alan Jones is a Senior Teaching Fellow at Queen's University Belfast and became its Director of Education (Architecture) in August 2008, and reappointed through a competitive process in June 2015 for a further three years. He has been invited to be a design critic at the schools of architecture in Delft, Cambridge, North London, Bath and Dublin Institute of Technology Dublin and University College Dublin. He was a member of the RIBA Education Committee (2001-2012) and the Architects Council for Europe Education Working Group (2003-2009). He has represented Northern Ireland on RIBA Council since 2009 and has been a member of the national RIBA Research and Innovation Group and Research Grants Committee since 2010.
Education
He was educated at Coleraine Academical Institution, Ballymena Academy and later at Queen's University Belfast.