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Six architecture students selected for MAD 2018 Travel Fellowship

2018-06-13T14:54:00-04:00

MAD Architects has announced the winners of their 2018 Travel Fellowship! For this year's edition, Ma Yansong only selected six architecture students from around the globe to travel abroad so they can conduct further research for their architectural topic of choice. Some of the travel destinations this time around include Mexico, Switzerland, Uzbekistan, North Korea, and Japan, to name a few.

Here's a first glimpse at the winning proposals:

Khao Vu, Harvard University, graduate student
Research Topic: Space Organism – A search for a new invention in contemporary culture
Travel Destinations: England, Japan, Switzerland

Khao Vu, “Space Organism – A search for a new invention in contemporary culture”

Tatiana Southey-Bassols, Bartlett School of Architecture, graduate student Research Topic: How the built environment is a key mediator of remembrance and a tool to preserve repressed cultural identity
Travel Destinations: China, Kazhakstan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan

Tatiana Southey-Bassols, “H...

Ma Yansong to select 2018 MAD Travel Fellowship student recipients next month

2018-05-30T16:59:00-04:00

It's already time for another edition of MAD Architects' 2018 Travel Fellowship. Established by Ma Yansong in 2009, the competitive program sponsors current university architecture students for overseas travel to conduct field work and further research into an architectural topic of their choice. The 2018 application deadline is June 8.

For its ninth edition, the fellowship will support five international students who will get to travel to China, and five Chinese students who will use the fellowship funds to travel outside of China. Ma Yansong will evaluate the submissions and select the candidates, and the fellowship recipients are expected to be announced June 13.

To date, the fellowship has sponsored 45 students. Looking back at the 2017 recipients, they collectively traveled to over 40 cities in 10 countries. Want an idea of some of the winning proposals? Here's a glimpse at some of last year's winning submissions:

Hossein Goudarzi, from Iran, 1st year graduate student in Univer...

2017 MAD Travel Fellowship granted to 10 architecture students worldwide

2017-06-07T19:14:00-04:00

Today, MAD Architects announced the 10 architecture students who won the 2017 MAD Travel Fellowship in its first global edition. Without a doubt, competition ran high. Out of 500 hopeful applicants, MAD selected the architecture research proposals of five international students who will get to travel to China, as well as five Chinese students who will use the fellowship funds to travel outside of China. Here are the 2017 recipients:

Overseas student recipients traveling to China:

Hossein Goudarzi, from Iran, 1st year graduate student in University of New Mexico, USA

Kyriaki Goti, from Greece, 2nd year graduate student in University of Stuttgart, Germany

Roberto Vargas Calvo, from Costa Rica, 5th year undergraduate student in Veritas University, Costa Rica

Shaun McCallum, Scotland, 1st year graduate student in University of Applied Art Vienna, Austria

Federico Fauli, from Italy, 2nd year graduate student in Architectural Association, UK

Chinese student recipients traveling overseas:

Qiwei Li...

Society of Architectural Historians Accepting Applications for H. Allen Brooks Travelling Fellowship

2015-06-15T17:41:00-04:00

The Society of Architectural Historians’ prestigious H. Allen Brooks Travelling Fellowship will be offered for 2015 and will allow a recent graduate or emerging scholar to study by travel for one year. The fellowship is not for the purpose of doing research for an advanced academic degree. Instead, Professor Brooks intended the recipient to study by travel and contemplation while observing, reading, writing, or sketching.

The goals are to provide an opportunity for a recent graduate with an advanced degree or an emerging scholar to:

see and experience architecture and landscapes firsthand
think about their profession deeply
acquire knowledge useful for the recipient’s future work, contribution to their profession, and contribution to society

The fellowship recipient may travel to any country or countries during the one-year period. This fellowship is funded completely by the Society of Architectural Historians’ H. Allen Brooks Travelling Fellowship Fund.

In 2015 the Brooks Fellowship wil...

2015 Wheelwright Prize awarded to Erik L’Heureux

2015-04-28T21:50:00-04:00

Another year has gone by for the Harvard University Graduate School of Design's $100K 2015 Wheelwright Prize. Hosted by Harvard GSD since 1935 and previously open only to Harvard GSD alumni, the prestigious travel grant is in its third year as an international open competition for any individual early-career architect from anywhere on the globe.

Selected from three finalists, L'Heureux's winning proposal, "Hot and Wet: The Equatorial City and the Architectures of Atmosphere" examines the traditional and modern building strategies in five dense cities in the equatorial zone -- a timely topic when rapid urbanization and climate change are on the rise. The cities are: Jakarta, Indonesia; Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia; Pondicherry, India; Lagos, Nigeria; and São Paulo, Brazil.

The prize will fund L’Heureux’s travel-based research over the next two years.

Read more about L'Heureux and some of his works below:

"Born in Jamestown, Rhode Island, Erik L’Heureux received his B.A. in Architecture from Wa...

Jose M. Ahedo wins the 2014 Wheelwright Prize

2014-05-21T21:07:00-04:00

Architect Jose M. Ahedo of Studio Ahedo from Barcelona was named as the 2014 recipient of the Wheelwright Prize. The competition pool started with nearly 200 applications from 46 countries and then to seven finalists who were announced in April. For its second year as an open international competition, the Harvard Graduate School of Design awards the $100,000 travel fellowship to an early-career architect whose proposal best conveys original, scholarly, and professional design.

After a second stage of deliberation, the jury selected Ahedo and his proposal, "Domesticated Grounds: Design and Domesticity Within Animal Farming Systems", which focuses on the architectural and organizational models of animal farming.

"Noting that livestock is a significant cause of land degradation, greenhouse gas emissions, social friction, and problematic development worldwide, Ahedo proposes to research a wide range of practices, from industrial operations driven by 'techno-capitalist policies' to informal or vernacular farms that have grown out of traditions. 'These two distinct production modes coexist in both developed and developing countries,' Ahedo writes in his essay, observing that neither responds adequately to the innumerable environmental and social challenges related to animal farming today."

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.