2024-05-17T23:30:07-04:00 https://archinect.com/news/article/150285263/75-000-steedman-fellowship-in-architecture-launches-2021-call-for-proposals-on-the-theme-of-disruption Sponsor 2021-10-18T14:50:00-04:00 >2024-03-15T01:45:58-04:00 <img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/e3/e3f17e9f7d7ee2c8a29cd03ea78b1ef5.jpg?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><p><strong><em>This post is brought to you by the&nbsp;<a href="https://samfoxschool.wustl.edu/archprograms" target="_blank">Sam Fox School of Design &amp; Visual Arts at Washington University in St. Louis</a>&nbsp;</em></strong></p> <p>Climate change, COVID-19, the fight for social justice. In disruptive times, how can architecture help to chart new paths and implement far-reaching solutions?</p> <p>That&rsquo;s the question posed by&nbsp;<strong>&ldquo;Disruption,&rdquo; the<strong>&nbsp;</strong></strong><strong><a href="http://steedmanfellowship.wustl.edu/2021-call-for-proposals/" target="_blank">2021 James Harrison Steedman Fellowship in Architecture</a>. </strong>The biennial research competition invites early-career architects from around the world to explore how architecture can help to address today&rsquo;s most pressing global challenges.</p> <p>The fellowship is organized by the&nbsp;<a href="https://samfoxschool.wustl.edu/" target="_blank"><strong>Sam Fox School of Design &amp; Visual Arts</strong></a>&nbsp;at&nbsp;Washington University in St. Louis, in concert with&nbsp;<a href="http://www.aia-stlouis.org/" target="_blank"><strong>AIA St. Louis</strong></a>, a chapter of the American Institute of Architects.&nbsp;<strong>The winning proposal will receive $75,000 to support up to a year of international travel and research</strong>.</p> <figure><p><a href="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/ab/ab2578f56aa8df63bc7be288df1a77b1.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&amp;w=1028" target="_blank"><img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/ab/ab2578f56aa8df63bc7be288df1a77b1.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&amp;w=514"></a></p><figcaption>A Black Lives Matter mural in Brooklyn, New York. Installed in June 2020, the mural is 375 feet wide, with letters 28 feet tall. (Photo: Shutter...</figcaption></figure> https://archinect.com/news/article/150130078/lily-zhang-wins-steedman-fellowship-50k-travel-grant-among-largest-u-s-architecture-awards Liam Otten 2019-04-03T15:47:00-04:00 >2024-03-15T01:45:58-04:00 <img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/21/21b684f90e01a4c470ac52a06fe93589.jpg?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><p>If architecture is in a relationship, posits Lily Zhang, then storage is its selfless soul mate: essential and supportive but typically overlooked.</p> <p>&ldquo;Storage allows architecture to maintain order,&rdquo; said Zhang, an architectural designer based in New York and&nbsp;winner&nbsp;of the&nbsp;<a href="https://steedmanfellowship.wustl.edu/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">2018-19 James Harrison Steedman Memorial Fellowship in Architecture</a>.</p> <p>&ldquo;We keep our active inhabitable areas free of clutter and the appearance of overindulgence,&rdquo; Zhang added, &ldquo;while banishing unused and unwanted items to the basement, the warehouse, the broom cupboard or the mechanical room.</p> <p>&ldquo;Yet rather than dismissing these spaces as passive and inert, what we stash away and where we hide them are as revealing as what we display, if not more.&rdquo;</p> <p><a href="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/cf/cf886c0d9f053f677549eab0eb80e6df.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&amp;w=1028" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/cf/cf886c0d9f053f677549eab0eb80e6df.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&amp;w=514"></a></p> <figcaption>Planometric and sectional views of shared storage spaces, from &ldquo;Collective Clutter,&rdquo; which proposes new spatial and socially engaged models of storage. (Image: Courtesy of Lily Zhang)</figcaption><p>Granted since 1925, the biennial Steedman Fellowship&nbsp;is organized by the College of Architect...</p>