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, 4th year undergraduate student in Beijing University of Civil engineering and Architecture, China. Travel Destination: Russia, Ukraine

Zishen Wen, 2nd year graduate student in Tsinghua University, China. Travel Destination: Germany, Austria, Italy.

Tangchenxi Wei, 2nd year graduate student in Southeast University, China. Travel Destination: Netherlands

You Wu, 1st year graduate student in Princeton University, USA. Travel Destination: France

Zhe Yi, 1st year graduate student in Yale University, USA. Travel Destination: Japan

All images courtesy of MAD Architects.