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Introducing the Iain Wylie Travel Award: A Lasting Legacy
The architectural community mourned the loss of alumnus Iain Wylie, Executive Director at Austin-Smith:Lord, on 13 May 2022. Now, two years on from Iain’s sudden passing, his friends, family and colleagues have founded the Iain Wylie Travel Award for final-year students from ESALA.
International competition achievements for ESALA students
Students have been recognised for their reimaginings of neighbourhoods in Germany and Vietnam.
Deliverances from Death
Illustration students have teamed up with members of the Edinburgh International Book Festival's Citizen Writers Group. The partnership created a series of works inspired by near-death experiences, and the works of seventeenth-century writer Alice Thornton.
ECA graduates scoop New Contemporaries awards
Tremendous success for ECA alumni at Royal Scottish Academy exhibition, with 11 winners across 12 awards.
ECA is a vibrant and internationally-engaged interdisciplinary hub for creative innovation embedded within the world-leading University of Edinburgh.