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Five architecture students awarded the 2021 Kohn Pedersen Fox Traveling Fellowship

2021-05-24T16:13:00-04:00

In a continued effort to support and mentor emerging architects and designers, firms like Kohn Pedersen Fox have developed scholarships and fellowship opportunities for students to explore and expand their architecture experiences.

"Each year, Kohn Pedersen Fox presents awards to students who are in their penultimate year at one of the twenty-seven design schools with whom KPF has partnered," shares the firm. "The purpose of the award is to allow students to broaden their education through a summer of travel before their final year at school [...] Recipients are awarded cash prizes to fund summer research on far-reaching topics that push the boundaries of critical thinking and architectural design."

This year's winning fellowship recipients are listed below in no particular order.

Rachel Bouraad of Pratt Institute

Portfolio by Rachel Bouraad. Image courtesy of KPF

Bijou Harding of Cambridge University

Portfolio of Bijou Harding. Image courtesy of KPF

Nicholas Houser of The Universit...

RIBA Norman Foster Travelling Fellow will look at the adaptation of urban wildlife to mega-cities

2018-05-15T15:06:00-04:00

The Royal Institute of British Architecture, alongside Norman Foster, has announced the winner of their twelfth Travelling Scholarship. After receiving the highest number of entries of any year thus far, the annual, £7,000 prize has been awarded to Steven Hutt of University of Greenwich for his proposal, ‘East of Eden.’

Travelling to Taiwan, Hong Kong, China, South Korea and Japan, Steven will investigate how urban wildlife has adapted to the rapid rise of densely populated mega-cities in the far east of Asia. Some of the urban environments Hutt will be looking include the ‘Sanzhi Pod City’—a dilapidated city that has become a breeding ground for five new species of orchid—and the wider Pearl River Delta—a rapidly growing concrete jungle with conditions that has also allowed other species to thrive—among others.

Norman Foster, whose Foundation helps support the program, said: "In the end, we all felt the winning proposal dealt with a topic that was extremely relevant given the accel...

Ike Kligerman Barkley announces the first two recipients of their new Traveling Fellowship

2018-03-16T16:16:00-04:00

Last fall, Ike Kligerman Barkley, the New York and San Francisco-based firm known for their thoughtful design of classic American residences, established a new traveling fellowship that would grant $12,000 to two graduate students for travel and research.

Concerned by the general lack of knowledge about the canon of architectural history, the firm—comprised of three history buffs whose office boasts a 4,000 book library on the world of design—wanted to create a fund that allows students to consider the intersection between traditional and contemporary architecture. It is open to students, in their penultimate year of study, who attend a select group of top-tier architecture schools including RISD, Pratt, Cornell, and Yale.

The 2018 winners—and the first two ever IKB Traveling Fellows—have been announced as Rebecca Kennedy, from the University of Texas at Austin School of Architecture, and Evan Sale, from the Yale University School of Architecture. Kennedy will be using their grant ...

Samuel Bravo wins 2017 Wheelwright Prize

2017-06-02T15:35:00-04:00

The Harvard University Graduate School of Design awarded its coveted 2017 Wheelwright Prize to Chilean architect Samuel Bravo for his proposal “Projectless: Architecture of Informal Settlements”. Bravo will travel to dozens of sites in South America, Asia, and Africa to ultimately develop strategies that integrate vernacular, collective practices with the modern architectural project.

In his Wheelwright proposal, Samuel Bravo focuses on traditional architectures and informal settlements, revisiting the topic of “architecture without architects”, as described by Bernard Rudofsky in the 1964 Museum of Modern Art exhibition.

An alumnus of the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile, Bravo leads his own practice and has realized multiple projects throughout South America. Here are a few of his previous collaborative works:

ANI NII SHÖBO, Acayali, Perú. 2009. Architects: Samuel Bravo and Sandra Iturriaga. Photo: Juan Balazs. Courtesy of Harvard GSD.

NII JUINTI SCHOOL, Ucayali, Perú. 2014. Architects: Sandra Iturriaga, Samuel Bravo. Photo credit: Samuel Bravo. Courtesy of Harvard GSD.

HOUSE IN CHILOE, Chiloe Island. Chile, 2016–2017. Architect and photo credit: Samuel Bravo. Courtesy of Harvard GSD.

After making it as a finalist in the 2016 cycle, Bravo was named the 2017 Wheelwright winner out of four finalists — the other three being Lucia Cella, Andjela Karabašević, and ...

RAMSA awards 2017 Travel Fellowship to Kyle Schumann

2017-05-22T19:39:00-04:00

Robert A.M. Stern Architects announced last week that they granted their 2017 RAMSA Traveling Fellowship to Kyle Schumann, a master's candidate at the Princeton University School of Architecture, for his submission “Alpine Modernism: Sensitive Identities and Regional Placemaking”.

The prize will fund Schumann's travels to Austria, Slovenia, and Italy, where he will study the work of architects Jože Plečnik, Otto Wagner, Edoardo Gellner, and Edvard Ravnikar. He argues in his submission that these specific architects engaged with “complex and often conflicting cultural histories, coupled with the challenging geography and climate of the Alpine region,” and therefore “necessitated an architecture intricately sensitive to material, cultural, and programmatic contexts.”

The jury — RAMSA Partners Melissa DelVecchio, Daniel Lobitz, and Grant F. Marani — was “intrigued” by Schumann's clear intent “to investigate Alpine architecture that mediates modernism and regional tradition,” they wrote. ...

SOM Foundation awards 2017 China Prize to three grad students

2017-05-17T20:08:00-04:00

The Skidmore, Owings & Merrill Foundation recently awarded the 2017 China Prize to three graduate students, who each received a $5,000 fellowship for travel and research outside of China.

The recipients are (click their names to see their portfolio submissions):

Yue Wu - Tongji University, Graduate Student

Zhaoyang Luo - Harbin Institute of Technology, Graduate Student

Hanxue Wei - Tongji University, Graduate Student

The winners were chosen among a competitive group of applicants, who must currently be enrolled in the last two years of an undergraduate or graduate degree program in architecture or urban design in China. Entrants had to submit a portfolio, research proposal, and travel itinerary.

The SOM Foundation's reputable Travel and Research Fellowships have offered over 200 student recipients an opportunity to travel outside of their home country to conduct research on architecture, history, culture, and design. First offered in the U.S., the program has expanded to include students...

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

Harvard University GSD announces the $100k annual Wheelwright Prize

2012-12-22T17:33:00-05:00

Harvard GSD Introduces the Wheelwright Prize $100,000 Annual Award Open to Architects Worldwide

Harvard Graduate School of Design announces the launch of the Wheelwright Prize, a $100,000 traveling fellowship awarded annually to talented early-career architects worldwide proposing exceptional itineraries for research and discovery. With an open application process (deadline February 28, 2013), the Wheelwright Prize recognizes the importance of field research to professional development, and reinforces Harvard GSD’s dedication to fostering investigative approaches to contemporary design.

Since 1935, Harvard GSD has awarded the annual Arthur W. Wheelwright Traveling Fellowship, established in memory of Wheelwright, Class of 1887. Intended to encourage the study of architecture outside the United States, the prize was formerly available only to GSD alumni; past fellows include Paul Rudolph, Eliot Noyes, William Wurster, Christopher Tunnard, I. M. Pei, John Haro, Klaus Herdeg, Farès el-Dahdah, Adele Santos, and Linda Pollak.

Under the leadership of Dean Mohsen Mostafavi, Harvard GSD...