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PennDesign Student Wins 2013 RAMSA Travel Fellowship

2013-04-24T18:20:00-04:00

Jonathan Dessi-Olive, a Master's candidate at the University of Pennsylvania School of Design, has recently been announced as recipient of the 2013 RAMSA Travel Fellowship. The $10,000 prize is awarded annually by the Partners of Robert A.M. Stern Architects for the purpose of travel and research.

Previously: Robert A. M. Stern Architects announces the RAMSA Travel Fellowship

2013 Berkeley Prize Winners Announced

2013-04-24T16:38:00-04:00

Winners of the 15th annual BERKELEY PRIZE competition have been announced. The 2013 prize program focuses on the topic: 'The Architect and the Accessible City.' 152 architecture students from 26 countries responded to this year’s question: "Provide us with an overview of what is being done in your city to make it accessible to people who have physical disabilities. In your opinion as an architect, what more can be done?"

Peter Reyner Banham Fellowship 2013-2014

2013-03-21T14:36:00-04:00

Peter Reyner Banham spent his time in Buffalo engaged in a scholarly project on the imaginary of American industrial architecture that took the form of historical research, hands-on engagement and seminar instruction, resulting in his landmark work, A Concrete Atlantis. In celebration of Banham’s legacy of experimental criticism, the fellowship is intended to support the research and creative activity of emerging practitioners. Candidates are encouraged to propose a research trajectory that will be developed in tandem with a pedagogical agenda.

The Banham Fellow will teach a design studio and an elective course each semester for the duration of the one-year fellowship. In addition, the fellow will deliver a public lecture as part of the school wide series and prepare an exhibition that culminates from the research, teaching, and/or creative work conducted while in residence at the school.

Applications should be composed of a well-considered proposal for research/creative work ...

Robert A. M. Stern Architects announces the RAMSA Travel Fellowship

2013-02-15T17:04:00-05:00

The RAMSA Travel Fellowship is a $10,000 prize awarded yearly by Robert A. M. Stern Architects for the purpose of travel and research. More specifically, the RAMSA Travel Fellowship seeks to promote investigations on the perpetuation of tradition through invention - key to the firm’s own work. The prize is intended to nurture emerging talent and is awarded every year to an individual who has proven insight and interest in the profession and its future, as well as the ability to carry forth in-depth research.

Important Dates
03/25/2013 Deadline for submission of proposal
04/15/2013 Announcement of award
01/10/2014 Deadline for submission of report

Forms
Call for Proposals
Registration Form
Authorization Form
Copyright Release

UPDATE: PennDesign Student Wins 2013 RAMSA Travel Fellowship

Seven International Architects Selected as 2013 AIA Honorable Fellows

2013-02-11T17:07:00-05:00

The American Institute of Architects has bestowed Honorary Fellowships on seven international architects for their achievements in the field of architecture.

This year's honorable fellows are:

Zvi Hecker of Zvi Hecker Architect (Germany)
Ladislav Lábus of Ladislav Lábus AA - Architektonický Atelier (Czech Republic)
Francisco Mangado of Mangado y Asociados, S.L. (Spain)
Fernando Romero of FR-EE | Fernando Romero Enterprise (Mexico)
Matthias Sauerbruch of Sauerbruch Hutton (Germany)
Ben van Berkel of UNStudio (The Netherlands)
Siegfried Zhiqiang Wu of Tongji University (China)

6 Architects & Designers among list of the 2012 USA Fellows

2012-12-03T13:57:00-05:00

United States Artists yesterday celebrated the 54 USA Fellows for 2012 at a gala at The Getty Center in Los Angeles. Fellowship grants of $50,000 each were awarded to outstanding talent in the disciplines Architecture & Design, Crafts & Traditional Arts, Dance, Literature, Media, Music, Theater Arts, and Visual Arts.

The six fellows for 2012 in the Architecture & Design category are Jesse Reiser & Nanako Umemoto of New York firm Reiser + Umemoto, RUR Architecture; Marcelo Spina & Georgina Huljich of LA-based practice P-A-T-T-E-R-N-S; Stephen Luoni, Director of the University of Arkansas Community Design Center; and landscape architect Kate Orff of SCAPE.

5 Architects & Designers among USA Fellows for 2011

2011-12-07T21:26:55-05:00

United States Artists has honored the USA Fellows for 2011 at a festive event earlier this week in Santa Monica, CA. Fellowship grants of $50,000 each were awarded to fifty outstanding performing, visual, media, and literary artists or artist teams. USA Fellowships are presented annually in the disciplines Architecture & Design, Crafts & Traditional Arts, Dance, Literature, Media, Music, Theater Arts, and Visual Arts.

The five fellows in the Architecture & Design category are Ada Tolla & Giuseppe Lignano, Elena Manferdini , J. Morgan Puett, Jenny E. Sabin, and Mabel O. Wilson.

From the School Blogs: Post Industrial Latent Space

2011-08-08T15:28:02-04:00

Bryan is one of two winners of the Branner Fellowship given by the UC Berkeley CED in 2010, the 2011 winners will be announced next month. The fellowship is given to two or three M. Arch students each year and provides a generous stipend to travel the world for 12 months while researching a topic for their thesis.

University of Oregon Graduate Wins 2011 Cavin Family Traveling Fellowship

2011-05-10T17:50:00-04:00

Daniel Toole, an architect at Perkins + Will in Seattle and a 2008 University of Oregon architecture graduate, has won the 5th Annual Cavin Family Traveling Fellowship award for his design, “Whittier Organic Food Center Towers,” a system that “flips” greenhouses vertically to incorporate on-site energy generation from wind and solar exposure, gravity-fed hydroponics, housing for students and farm laborers, and space for farmers’ markets.