Michael Ramage

Michael H. Ramage is an architect and a University Lecturer in the Department of Architecture at Cambridge University. His specialties include designing and building structural masonry spans using traditional techniques and new materials.
Education and background
Recent projects include the Pines Calyx in Dover, England, and The Interpretive Centre at Mapungubwe National Park in South Africa. He held a fellowship in the engineering firm of Conzett Bronzini Gartmann AG, Chur, Switzerland, and has led workshops on timbrel vault building techniques at MIT and the University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada. While at MIT, he was a research assistant with ArchNet.org and the Aga Khan Trust for Culture to catalogue important Islamic buildings in Anatolia. In addition to a MArch from MIT, Ramage has a B.A. in Geology from Carleton College, Minnesota, USA.
Ramage held a Fulbright fellowship to Turkey in 1995-96, and was recently the recipient of MIT's Marvin E. Goody award and a Boston Society of Architects research grant. He is a member of Sigma Xi, the scientific research society.
Awards and prizes
In 2008, a team of lecturers at Cambridge University, including Michael Ramage, were awarded the Happold Brilliant Award for Excellence in the Teaching of Building Physics in the context of a Low Carbon Economy. In 2009, The Mapungubwe National Park Interpretive Centre, designed by a team including Ramage, Peter Rich Architects and John Ochsendorf, won three awards. It was named World Building of the Year, topped the Culture category at The World Architecture Festival and won the Institution of Structural Engineers' David Alsop Sustainability Award.
The Interpretive Centre received further critical success in August 2010 when Michael H. Ramage, Peter Rich Architects and John Ochsendorf were announced as the winners of the Built Environment category in annual design awards, The Earth Awards.

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