Winners of the Twelfth Annual BERKELEY PRIZE Competition announced by Professor Raymond Lifchez, Chair of the BERKELEY UNDERGRADUATE PRIZE FOR ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN EXCELLENCE.
Since its founding, the international BERKELEY PRIZE competition encourages undergraduate
architecture students to write about issues central to the understanding of the social art of architecture and the social role of the architect in today’s world. What is that role? What should it be? By asking students to grapple with just such problems, the PRIZE brings to the forefront of students’ thinking the reality that architecture is a social art.
The PRIZE now comprises three separate and distinct competitions: the Essay Competition; the Travel Fellowship Competition; and the Architectural Design Fellowship Competition.
The 2009 BERKELEY PRIZE Competition attracted 115 architecture students from 26 countries. The winners reflect the diversity of the authors and illustrate the worldwide interest in and thinking
about the ideals of a socially-grounded architecture. Here are the results:
ESSAY COMPETITION
This year’s Essay Competition is focused on the topic, Historic Preservation/Heritage Conservation. Students were asked to respond to the Question:
WHAT BUILDING OR GROUP OF BUILDINGS IN YOUR COMMUNITY SHOULD BE PERMANENTLY MAINTAINED AS EVIDENCE OF YOUR COMMUNITY’S SOCIAL AND CULTURAL HISTORY? IDENTIFY THE BUILDING OR GROUP OF BUILDINGS, EXPLAIN ITS VALUE, AND DESCRIBE HOW IT IS USED TODAY OR COULD BE USED IN THE FUTURE.
The winners are:
(First Prize)
Ms. Ishanie Niyogi, Birla Institute of Technology, Mesra,India: “The story of a prison cell” (US4500)
(Second Prize)
Ms.Tara Gaskin, Dalhousie
University, Halifax, Nova Scotia,Canada:”The Confederacy Council House at
Six Nations Reserve No. 40: A monument to First Nations culture and community” (US3000)
(Third Prize)
Ms. Aimee Sunny, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana, USA: “A High Price for
Grandeur” (US2000)
(Honorable Mentions)
Mr. Yiğitcan Karanfil, Bahçesehir
University Faculty of Architecture, Istanbul, Turkey: “Why would Haydarpasa ever need to be somewhere else? (US500)
Ms. Mehrnoosh Khalooghi,
Islamic Azad University of Qazvin/Faculty of Architecture and Civil Engineering, Qazvin, Iran:”The Silk Road Caravansaries: The Forgotten National Identity” (US500)
This year’s Essay Jury includes:
MARISTELLA CASCIATO, Professor of History of Architecture at the University of Bologna – School of Architecture “Aldo Rossi” in Cesena, and Chair of DOCOMOMO International.
ANDREW S. DOLKART, Director of the Historic Preservation program for Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation, New York.
MAIRE O’NEILL, Associate Professor in Architecture, Montana State University, Bozeman, Montana,
JOHN STUBBS, Vice President for Field Projects for the World Monuments Fund in New
York and an Adjunct Associate Professor of Historic Preservation in Columbia University’s Historic Preservation graduate program, New York.
JOHANNES WIDODO, Associate Professor at the Department of Architecture, School of Design
and Environment, National University of Singapore, and Director of CASA (Centre for Advanced Studies in Architecture).
TRAVEL FELLOWSHIP COMPETITION
(Four awards)
Ms. Holly Simon,
Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada for travel to a 2010 European
Capital of Culture Heritage preservation
and adaptive reuse program in Pecs, Hungary (Airfare + stipend)
Ms. Jessica Clark,
University of California, Berkeley, for travel to the Permaculture Institute’s Design
and Sustainable Communities
course in Sante Fe, New Mexico, USA (Airfare + stipend)
Ms. Marina Sapunova,Vladimir
State University, Vladimir, Russia for travel to a five-week workshop
at Arcosanti, Arizona, USA (Airfare + stipend)
Mr. Michael Swords,
Dublin School of Architecture, Dublin, Ireland for travel to the Summer Seminar
of Medieval Architecture and Archaeology
in Udine, Italy (Airfare + stipend)
Jurors for the Travel Fellowship are members of the
BERKELEY PRIZE Committee.
ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN FELLOWSHIP COMPETITION
(One award)
Mr. Robert Ungar, Department of Architecture, Bezalel Academy of Art and Design,
Jerusalem, Israel; to stage a regional competition entitled: Refilling the
old water tower with new content (US2500 honorarium, and student prizes totaling
US2500
for the competition)
Jurors for the Architectural Design Fellowshipare members of the
BERKELEY PRIZE Committee.
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Winners’ biographies, photographs, and submittals; Jurors’ biographies; archives of past
competitions, and links to other articles on the Social Art of
Architecture are posted at www.berkeleyprize.com [http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?et=1103336242067&s=24&e=001j15kns7V90ypZFNyBbEB7AgvDKwuTv22lKTnR70JX0WSA6s9U4mg4Bh9m2QA0EhuPRiqIRbwuBZRJxNY8t-hT6YmNpngd-V8YpchM143Fx7_KefGxvSj-g==].
