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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. ...

2014 RAMSA Travel Fellowship awarded to McGill University grad student

2014-04-29T21:09:00-04:00

Robert A.M. Stern Architects recently announced Anna Antropova, a master's degree candidate at the McGill University School of Architecture, as the recipient of the 2014 RAMSA Travel Fellowship. The $10,000 fellowship will fund Antropova's trip to Japan, where she will study ancient wood joinery techniques. Her research focuses on the potential transformation and reintroduction of applying ancient timber techniques to modern construction.

"'This elegant and efficient mode of construction could meaningfully inform our western building industry, an industry addicted to toxic adhesives and an indiscriminate application of metal fasteners. Wood stands to be for our generation what steel and concrete were for the previous two or three, and Japanese joinery offers us a sustainable mode of assembly for a sustainable material with far less embodied energy.' Ms. Antropova aims to reintroduce these techniques, ultimately uniting 'old and new, east and west, tradition and modernity.'”

Antropova was selected from a field of 20 applicants preselected by their educational institutions.

This year's jury consisted of RAMSA partners Melissa DelVecchio, Dan Lobitz, and Grant F. Marani. Margaret Marsh facilitated the discussion and process.

For more details, head over to Bustler.

Robert A.M. Stern Architects 2014 Travel Fellowship now accepting submissions

2014-02-05T19:14:00-05:00

Robert A.M. Stern Architects' RAMSA Travel Fellowship is back for its second year. The Fellowship awards $10,000 to an individual to support travel and research for studies that convey the firm's key ideal of perpetuating tradition through invention in architecture. Candidates demonstrate insight and interest in the architectural profession and its future, as well as an ability to carry through in-depth research.

All regions and cultures are appropriate topics of study. The jury will consist of three RAMSA partners and a representative from RAMSA’s Research department.

To be eligible for the prize, you must be a student pursuing an M.Arch degree, are in your penultimate year of study, and are enrolled in one of the 16 U.S. or Canadian schools attended by current RAMSA partners and senior associates. Students should apply to their school deans.

Submissions require application forms, a one-page travel and research statement, and a portfolio.

Important deadlines and dates:
Proposal submissi...

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

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