Architecture: Scholarships, Fellowships, Competitions

Click on this link for more info on the IPA Fall Fellow Residency: Call for Entries: To Be or Not to BEQ: A Post-Moses Community Vision 

For more info and details please contact: info@the-ipa.org 

Each year, Kohn Pedersen Fox presents three $10,000 awards to students who are in their penultimate year at one of the twenty-seven design schools with whom KPF has chosen to partner.

THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY (NYPL) 

The Gotham Center / Uris Foundation is pleased to offer short-term fellowships to support graduate students from the City University of New York (CUNY) in furthering the study of New York City history through New York Public Library (NYPL) collection materials. Fellowship stipends are $1,000 per week for a minimum of two and maximum of four weeks. Individuals needing to conduct on-site research in the Library’s special collections are welcome to apply. Preference is given to applications making a strong case for accessing special collections materials.

Note: This award is only for CUNY graduate students.

Five Cities / 25 Fellowships

To help increase the number of minority architects throughout the U.S., NOMA created a program to assist minority students with licensure. The NOMA Foundation Fellowship (NFF) aims to place NOMAS member students enrolled in an undergraduate or graduate architecture program in a 12-week paid architectural summer internship.

Eligible students must graduate within two years of completing the Fellowship, inclusive of students scheduled to graduate Spring 2020 (graduation years 2020-2022).

$1,000 Licensure Stipend

Fellows are paid, full-time community development professionals, community organizers, or planners.

The NYC Department of Small Business Services aims to build a network of leaders prepared with commercial revitalization expertise and experience in New York City neighborhoods.

Ten fellows will be placed to work on a specific project in one community-based organization placement site.

Qualifications:

- New York City residency (within 90 days of the start date)

- 1 or more year(s) of community outreach, organizing, and/or planning experience

- Familiarity with designated New York City neighborhoods

Program details:

- 10-month paid fellowship (June 2020 through March 2021)

- Health benefits

• Introductory Video: 1 minute

• Letter of interest

• Resume

• Letters of recommendation (minimum of 2)

*Students are to arrive the evening before the programme starts in each city

The International Summer Programme in Architecture: Cities in Asia (Studio Jakarta-Taipei) is a three-week credit-bearing course organized by the HKU Department of Architecture. Founded in 2010, it is an annual design and research studio that travels to multiple cities in Asia. Taught by a diverse group of faculty members from HKU and speakers from internationally renowned universities and independent research groups, the course offers participants an unrivaled learning experience within Asia’s most dynamic contexts.

Applicants must be candidates for a master's degree in landscape architecture, historic preservation, landscape or architectural history, archeology, anthropology, history or horticulture.

Stipend:

Each Fellow will be paid a stipend of $8,000 plus certain living expenses. Housing will be provided in the vicinity of each Fellow's project site.

The Kiley Teaching Fellow will be appointed Lecturer in Landscape Architecture at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design for the 2020-21 academic year, and is expected to be in full-time residence from August 15, 2020 through May 30, 2021.

LAF is pleased to offer a total of $97,000 through 13 different scholarships and fellowships. These awards support new generations of landscape architects by rewarding superior student performance, supporting access and diversity, and assisting students with unmet financial need.

Eligible candidates are undergraduate or graduate students enrolled at colleges and universities in the U.S. and Canada. Additional requirements vary by scholarship.

https://www.lafoundation.org

Howerton Travel Fellowship is available to undergraduate and graduate students in planning, architecture, landscape architecture or urban design who will be entering their final year of study in September 2020. Currently in its fourteenth year, the Fellowship provides students with an opportunity to enrich their education with both travel and office experience.

$5K + 3 WEEK TRAVEL TO SAN FRANCISCO OR NYC

https://www.harthowerton.com

10K Award 

This competition challenges students to envision a house for the HERE & NOW: informed by context, culture, and vernacular, but fully embracing 21st century technology and ideas of domesticity.

First, second & third prizes will be awarded, in addition to a selected number of honorable mentions, all at the discretion of the jury. A total of $6,000 will be distributed in the following manner to the winners:

1st - 2000 + 700

2nd- 1500 + 500

3rd - 1000 + 300

https://www.acsa-arch.org

selection.

Opt 2 - Offers architecture students the opportunity to select a site and building program using steel as the primary material. This competition category permits the greatest amount of flexibility for any building type.

Winning students and their faculty sponsors will receive cash prizes totaling $14,000 with distribution

Danielle and Larry Nyman Family Project Award 

First Prize: $2,000

Second Prize: $1,000

Matriculated baccalaureate or master’s degree students are eligible to apply.

All entries must include a one-page, typed (double-spaced) explanation of the relevance of the work to the idea of family structure and this application form. Entries should be sent electronically to NymanAward@ccny.cuny.edu.

In response to these conditions, the New York City Council and Van Alen Institute have launched Reimagining Brooklyn Bridge, an international design competition that aims to spark a new public conversation about New York City’s infrastructure.

All finalists will have two months to refine their design based on feedback from the competition’s jury. In recognition of their work, finalists in the “Professionals” category will receive $13,000 and finalists in the “Young Adults” category will receive $3,000.

For the complete design brief, visit:

www.vanalen.org

Alisha Kim Levin, Director of Communications, Van Alen Institute, 

Entries are juried by a panel of architects and designers at the forefront of their professions. Finalists and winners are published in the AZ Awards Annual issue and are celebrated at the AZ Awards Gala in June 2020. The student winner also receives a $5000 cash prize.

Students pay just $35/submission until the early-bird deadline of January 31, and $45/submission until the final deadline of February 18 (compared to the regular entry fees of $150 and $175, respectively)

AZURE Website:

https://awards.azuremagazine.com

Design Submission (Many Categories) 

Must pay submission fee

Submit Proposal 

PRIZES 3K TO 5K EUROS

50K FUNDING

https://h.bam.archi

Applicants for all Rome Prize Fellowships, except those applying for the National Endowment for the Humanities postdoctoral fellowship, must be United States citizens at the time of the application.

US citizens, and those foreign nationals who have lived in the United States for three years immediately preceeding the application deadline, may apply for the NEH postdoctoral fellowships in ancient studies, medieval studies, Renaissance and early modern studies, or modern Italian studies.

Graduate students in the humanities may apply for predoctoral fellowships only if they are ABD.

Previous winners of the Rome Prize are not eligible to reapply.

Undergraduate students are not eligible for Rome Prize fellowships.

https://aarome.org

Prizes

- 1st prize: 5000 Euro

- 2nd prize: 2000 Euro

- 3rd prize: 1000 Euro

We invite bold, inspiring, provocative and innovative proposals. In all scales and in all environments, from the smallest structure to complex facilities; from rural outskirts to suburban environments; from nature to expanding megacities. From Earth to Mars.

Research Intern The​ ​Fall intern would be responsible for research that would help support the Fellowship teams. The intern would be embedded in the 5-6 selected teams and would be a research and technical  resource to each team.  Specific research and documentation could include 1) mapping of neighborhood conditions  2) mapping of allowable development 3) housing/parks/schools, etc. needs of the community 4) public space opportunities in the neighborhood. 
 
 
Programming Intern The Fall intern would be responsible for coordinating all Fall programming events around the Residency program (inviting guest lecturers, venue coordination) and assisting with all social media focused around the Residency and its programs. 

Internship Schedule / Compensation The IPA internship is on a part time basis, approximately 10 hours per week, over a 10-12 week period, depending on the IPA and interns’ Fall schedules. 
 
These are currently unfunded positions and therefore are volunteer or course credit opportunities. The IPA is happy to work with interns’ academic institutions to facilitate course credit. 

Offering enriching internship experiences nationwide for Latinx college students and upcoming professionals who are passionate about public land conservation and natural resources.

Positions range from Archeological Intern, Habitat Restoration Fellow, Communications Fellow, and many others.

The duration of the internships vary from 11 - 12 weeks in the summer up to 6 months - 1 year.

https://americas.uli.org