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RIBA 2020 Norman Foster Travelling Scholarship Announced

United Kingdom Architecture News - Mar 12, 2020 - 10:29   9648 views

RIBA 2020 Norman Foster Travelling Scholarship Announced

The Royal Institute of British Architects has opened the 2020 Norman Foster Travelling Scholarship. Applications are welcomed from students around the world who are enrolled in, and have successfully completed, the first year of a professional qualification in architecture in one of the institutions of higher education invited to participate. 

A £7,000 grant will be awarded to one winner, which will be selected by a panel of judges, including Lord Foster and RIBA President Alan Jones. The grant will be offered to a student of architecture who demonstrates the potential for outstanding achievement and original thinking on issues that relate to the sustainable survival of cities and towns.

The deadline for submissions is 24 April 2020 at 17:00. Further details can be found on RIBA's website

"As a student I won a prize that allowed me to spend a summer travelling through Europe and to study first-hand buildings and cities that I knew only from the pages of books. It was a revelation—liberating and exhilarating in so many ways. Today it is the privilege of the Norman Foster Foundation to support the RIBA Norman Foster Travelling Scholarship, which I hope will have a lasting legacy—offering the chance for discovery and the inspiration for exciting new work—for generations to come," said Lord Foster.

"We are very grateful to the Norman Foster Foundation for their continuous generous support. This year we are inviting 428 schools of architecture from around the globe, all RIBA-validated institutions, to nominate their talented students. The Norman Foster Travelling Scholarship gives aspiring architects the chance to carry out important international research—I would encourage all eligible to apply," said RIBA President Alan Jones.

RIBA 2020 Norman Foster Travelling Scholarship Announced

Image courtesy of Norman Foster Foundation

Eligibility

To be eligible, students must be enrolled in, and have successfully completed the first year of, a professional qualification in architecture in one of the schools of architecture invited to participate. The full list of invited schools for 2020 is available to view.

Each school can nominate one student only and must choose its own method of selecting its nominated student.

To apply, nominated students must complete an application form and the requested supporting material. Full details of these specifications and the application process are available in the application form.

Completed applications, and any enquiries about this scholarship or the application process, should be emailed directly to Gillian Harrison: [email protected].

Previous grants:

Since 2007, the Norman Foster Foundation, London has provided the following traveling fellowships:

2019: Siti Nurafaf Ismail, University of Malaya, Malaysia

2018: Steven Hutt, University of Greenwich, UK

2017: Chloe Loader, Lincoln School of Architecture and Design, UK

2016: Abel Feleke, University of Western Australia, Australia

2015: Charles Palmer, University of Sheffield, UK

2014: Moe Paxton, Bartlett, University College London, UK

2013: Sigita Burbulyte, Bath School of Architecture, UK

2012: Thomas Aquilina, Edinburgh School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture, Scotland

2011: Sahil Bipin Deshpande, Rizvi College of Architecture, Mumbai, India

2010: Andrew Mackintosh, Scott Sutherland School of Architecture at the Robert Gordon University Aberdeen, UK

2009: Amanda Rivera, Universidad del Bío-Bío, Chile

2008: Faizan Jawed, Rizvi College of Architecture, Mumbai, India

2007: Ben Masterton-Smith, Bartlett, University College London, UK

Top image: Hokkaido, Japan © Siti Nurafaf Ismail – 2019 Norman Foster Foundation Travelling Scholarship recipient

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