Royal College of Art
Royal College of Art | |
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founding | 1837 |
Sponsorship | state |
place | London , UK |
Rector | Paul Thompson |
Students | 2150 |
Website | www.rca.ac.uk |
The Royal College of Art ( RCA ) is a public research university for art and design in London and the only university in the world for exclusively postgraduate students in this field. The RCA has three campuses in the boroughs of South Kensington, Battersea and White City. In the QS World University Rankings , it was ranked first in 2019 as the world's best university for art and design for the fifth year in a row; It also took first place in the 2015 BOF ranking as the most successful global fashion university.
Around 2100 students from over 70 different countries are enrolled at the four institutes of the RCA - Architecture, Communication Studies, Design and (Fine and Applied) Arts & Humanities. The university offers MA , M.Phil. , MRes and Ph.D. on.
The History of Design course runs in collaboration with the Victoria and Albert Museum ; there are also two dual MA / MSc courses in design / engineering together with Imperial College London .
Close to the RCA are the Royal Albert Hall , the Royal College of Music , the Imperial College and Hyde Park .
history
The college was founded in 1837 under the name Government School of Design . It became the National Art Training School in 1853 and the Royal College of Art in 1896 . In the 19th century the name South Kensington School (s) was common because of its location .
The Royal College of Art was instrumental in creating the modern school of British sculpture in the 1920s with students like Barbara Hepworth and Henry Moore, and in the development of Pop Art in the 1960s with students like Peter Blake and David Hockney .
After 130 years, the institute received the status of an independent university in 1967.
Well-known graduates
- Frank Auerbach (* 1931), German-British painter
- Christopher Bailey (* 1971), British fashion designer
- Peter Blake (* 1932), British painter
- Tord Boontje (* 1968), Dutch designer
- Tim Brown (* 1962), British industrial designer
- Victor Burgin (* 1941), British artist
- Jake and Dinos Chapman , British artists
- Sokari Douglas Camp (* 1958), Nigerian sculptor
- Patrick Caulfield (1936-2005), British painter
- Tony Cragg (* 1949), English visual artist
- Richard Deacon (born 1949), British artist
- Roger Dean (* 1944), British designer
- Len Deighton (born 1929), British historian and author
- James Dyson (* 1947), British vacuum cleaner designer
- Frauke Eigen (* 1969), German photographer
- Tracey Emin (* 1963), Turkish-British artist
- Hamish Fulton (born 1946), British photographer
- Konstantin Grcic (* 1965), German designer
- Murat Günak (* 1957), German automobile designer
- Barbara Hepworth (1903–1975), British sculptor
- Hilda Hewlett (1864–1943), pilot and founder of the first English flight school
- David Hockney (born 1937), British painter
- RB Kitaj (1932-2007), American painter
- Phillip King (* 1934), British sculptor
- Peter Mönnig (* 1955), German sculptor
- Henry Moore (1898–1986), English sculptor
- Malcolm Morley (1931-2018), British painter
- Jasper Morrison (* 1959), English designer
- Stephen D. Nash (* 1954), English animal illustrator
- Peter Phillips (artist) (* 1939) pop art painter
- Bridget Riley (* 1931), English painter
- Peter Schreyer (* 1953), German automobile designer
- Ridley Scott (born 1937), British director
- Tony Scott (1944–2012), British director
- Jerszy Seymour (* 1968), Canadian designer
- Storm Thorgerson (1944-2013), British designer
- Joe Tilson (born 1928), British painter
- Philip Treacy (* 1967), Irish milliner and designer
- Stefan Sielaff (* 1962), German automobile designer
literature
- Frank P. Brown: South Kensington & its art training. Longmans, Greene & Co., London 1912, pp. 19-20 (English, Textarchiv - Internet Archive ): “… until the year 1897, when the School was named the Royal College of Art in place of that of the National Art Training School, and a Diploma of Associateship was established. A year later Mr. Walter Crane was appointed Principal of the College, ... ”
See also
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ https://www.rca.ac.uk/more/staff/dr-paul-thompson/
- ↑ topuniversities.com
- ↑ Global Fashion School Rankings 2015 | #BoFEducation. Retrieved July 7, 2017 (UK English).
- ↑ Royal College of ARt: Vice-Chancellor's Foreword. In: https://www.rca.ac.uk/ . Retrieved April 2, 2019 .
Coordinates: 51 ° 30 ′ 5 " N , 0 ° 10 ′ 44" W.