THE ARCHITECT AND THE HEALTHFUL ENVIRONMENT

Winners of the sixteenth annual international 2014 BERKELEY PRIZE Competition are announced today by Professor Raymond Lifchez, Chair of the BERKELEY UNDERGRADUATE PRIZE FOR ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN EXCELLENCE (www.berkeleyprize.org).

Through three distinct competitions - the Essay Competition; the Travel Fellowship Competition; and theTeaching Fellowship Competition - the international BERKELEY PRIZE competition encourages undergraduate architecture students and their teachers worldwide to go into their communities for the purpose of thinking and writing about issues central to the understanding of the social art of architecture. 

The 2014 BERKELEY PRIZE focuses on the topic: The Architect and the Healthful Environment.  141 undergraduate architecture students from 28 countries are participants in responding to this year’s Question:

The 2014 BERKELEY PRIZE recipients are:

Essay Competition

First Place Prize

Tazrin Islam, Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology, Dhaka, Bangladesh: "Livability vs. Lovability" (5000USD).  

Second Place Prize

Nipun Prabakar and Sukruti Gupta, School of Planning and Architecture, Bhopal, India: "Spaces to Grow:  A Comparative Study of Two Orphanages" (4000USD)

Third Place Prize (tie)

Michael Philpott, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada: "Healthful Halifax: Designing Healthful Spaces, Learning by Example" (3000USD)

Third Place Prize (tie)

Aparna Ramesh, Visvesvaraya National Institute of Technology, Nagpur, India: "The Architecture of a Healthful Learning Environment" (3000USD)

Travel Fellowship Competition

Clarence Lee Jun Yi from the Unitec Institute of Technology, Auckland, New Zealand.  Clarence will travel from Auckland to Kyoto, Japan to participate in a series of guided tours and visits to the traditional gardens of Kyoto.

Sheila Malingu from the Uganda Martyrs University, Kampala, Uganda.  Sheila will travel from Kampala to Eugene, Oregon to observe the Sustainable City Year Program at the University of Oregon;  and then to Portland to participate in the 51st International Making Cities Livable (IMCL) Conference (2014).

Delma Palma from the University of Notre Dame, South Bend, Indiana, USA.  Delma will travel from Indiana to Palermo, Italy to participate in the 2014 Palermo Urban Design Summer Studio.

Revathi Veriah from the Anna University, Chennai, India.  Revathi will travel from Chennai to Sabah, Malaysia and Bali, Indonesia to participate in the Arkitrek 2014 Camp (Sabah) and to volunteer at the Green School (Bali).

(All of the students receive a 3700USD cash stipend sufficient to cover round-trip airfare, daily expenses, and program costs for their specific travel plans.  Click here for the complete proposals from the winners.)

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