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Architecture grants & fellowships

Access to funding makes impactful, forward-thinking architectural research possible. That’s why AIA is proud to enable, support, and celebrate research through architecture grants and fellowships.

AIA Upjohn Research Initiative

The AIA Upjohn Research Initiative supports applied research projects that enhance the value of design and professional practice knowledge. The program funds up to six research projects annually, awarding $15,000–$30,000 per recipient per year for projects completed in a 6–18-month period. Project outcomes are published electronically and in a nationally distributed publication.

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AIA College of Fellows Latrobe Prize

The Latrobe Prize is a biennial $100,000 award from the AIA College of Fellows to support a two-year program of research selected by jury review. The grant, named for architect Benjamin Henry Latrobe, is awarded for research leading to significant advances in the architecture profession.

The Delano & Aldrich/Emerson Fellowship

Since 1930, AIA has awarded the Delano & Aldrich/Emerson Fellowship for travel and study in the US to a French architect. The recipient is selected by members of the French Academy of Architecture and is assisted by AIA members in New York.

AIA Arthur N. Tuttle Jr. Graduate Fellowship in Health Facility Planning & Design

The Tuttle Fellowship supports graduate students and young architects in training. The fellowship was designed to increase awareness of the needs and nature of healthcare facilities, attract talented young architects and students to the field, and advance the knowledge of planning and design for healthcare environments. Awards are typically from $2,000–$10,000.

YAF-LFRT Future Forward Grant

The YAF-LFRT Future Forward Grant supports professionals in the testing of new ideas that disrupt the traditional conception of practice, process, and product in the field of architecture. The grant seeks to remove financial barriers to fund untested ideas from professionals and advance exploration, innovation, and disruption in the architecture profession.

AIA calls for and supports research across the three scales of influence: occupant, building, and societal. Explore more about AIA’s research goals.

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Stewardson Keefe LeBrun Travel Grant

This grant is awarded to further the personal and professional development of an architect in early or mid-career through travel. Travel plans should be focused on a selected topic of interest to the individual, rather than a part of a larger humanitarian or institutional endeavor. If appropriate, the winner may be asked to present at the Center for Architecture upon return.

Need: The journey cannot be completed without funding
Focused: A clear and focused line of inquiry
Beneficial: Valuable to the applicant’s professional practice

Scholarship

Apply for the Stewardson Keefe LeBrun Travel Grant > Deadline:October 07, 2024

The Scholarship Committee awarded $15,000 to Mark Zlotsky for his research project “Topiary Tango.” Zlotsky will travel internationally and domestically to study the intersection between topiary and architecture. Read more >

Tya Winn, NOMA, LEED GA, SEED, was awarded $15,000 for her proposal, “Public Architecture for Public Good.” Winn will travel internationally and domestically to create a global sample of current public housing projects and their effects on residents and the greater public. Read more >

The Scholarship Committee selected Jiuen Yang, AIA, LEED AP BD+C, and her research project “Unknown Territories: Imagining Post-Ruin Siberia and Rust Belt.” Yang’s research will observe, document, and address the aftermath of the rise and fall of the global economy, while considering the urban life, infrastructure, and revitalization of post-industrial cities in Siberia and in the Rust Belt of the United States. Read more >

Greben will travel to France, England, and Ireland for her research on “Collaboration to Independence in the Work of Eileen Gray.” The intention of her travel is to visit houses designed by Eileen Gray and to access the designer’s archives. Read more >

Smith’s project, “Architecture and Radical Hydrology: Adaptation to Climate Change in the Indian Subcontinent,” will explore architecture and climate change, focusing on “low-capital, small-scale interventions.” Read more >

Connell and Yüksel plan to document patterns in Central Asian architecture and tile work in their project “De-Coding the Roads: Computational Tessellation of Central Asian Architecture.” Read more >

Hill’s project, “Slave House Database,” will serve as a “central repository of information” that will benefit researchers and organizations, as well as descendants and individuals, and ensures that “irreplaceable pieces of history are not forever lost.” Read more >

Rysavy’s application, entitled “Practices of Ornament in the Making of Public Space,” seeks to unpack the correlation between the works of the Baroque architect, Francesco Borromini and Viennese Modernist, Adolf Loos. Read more >

Arbanas’s project, “Post-Revolutionary Architecture in Havana,” addresses the lack of systematic documentation during this period of Cuba’s architectural production. Arbanas will travel to Havana and other parts of Cuba to visit approximately 30 projects, gathering knowledge about the era’s ideological, political, and social background. Read more >

Hafiz’s project, “The Industrial Imprint of the Buriganga,” is a research-design project studying the community effects of Dhaka’s once affluent waterway. She will travel to the capital city of Bangladesh to investigate the global system of waste management and water distribution, which has been negatively affecting developing mega-cities such as Dhaka. Read more >

Schulte’s “Wind, Water and Land: A Comparative of Study of Windmills and Landscape Architecture of the Dutch Lowlands and the American Dustbowl” will be a comparative study of historical windmills, their complimentary landscape forms, and waterways in the development, planning, and settlement of the alluvial plains of northern and western Holland and in the western-central regions of the U.S. Read more >

Diane Davis-Sikora, Owner/Designer of DDesign Studio and Assistant Professor at the College of Architecture and Environmental Design at Kent State University, received a grant for her project, “Revisiting Penumatic Architecture.” Davis-Sikora intends to gain a working knowledge of the state of structural and material capacities of air-supported membranes by traveling to various locations within Europe where pneumatic structures are a highly developed form of construction. Read more >

Fiyel Levent, Owner and Principal of Fiyel Levent Design in NYC, will survey the architectural heritage of the silk road for the project, “Echoes of Dialogue: The Genealogy of Central Asian Architecture.” Her travel itinerary will take her through the Ferghana Valley, which stretches among various countries including Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, and Kyrgystan. Read more >

Stephanie Zurek, Assoc. AIA, Architectural Designer and Project Manager at Donald Powers Architects in Providence, RI, with her project, “Exploring and Learning from Indonesian Kampungs,” will take a two-week trip through the Indonesian cities of Jakartha, Surabaya, and Yogyakarta. She will study the Indonesian Kampung, an efficient building type that can contribute to sustainable development, public space, and cultural diversity. Read more >

Learning the Timelessness of a Swiss Chapel Design: A Sanctuary and a Life

In the spring of 2009, Richard William Hayes, AIA, was awarded the Center for Architecture’s Stewardson Keefe LeBrun Travel Grant to research English architect Sir John Soane and the monastic suite he designed for his London home. Hayes received his MArch from Yale University and has worked as a project architect for Rafael Viñoly Architects, MR Architecture and Décor, and Alexander Gorlin Architects. Read more >

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Center for Architecture Grants and Scholarships Program Awards $202,500 in 2021

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December 21, 2021

December 21, 2021, New York, NY – By the close of 2021 the Center for Architecture, in partnership with AIA New York, will award $202,500 to students and early and mid-career architects through its robust Grants and Scholarships program. In recent years, the Center for Architecture has expanded its program to provide more scholarships to a broader range of students interested in the study of architecture and award more funding to professionals working on impactful projects that further the research and study of architecture.

The Center for Architecture’s Grants and Scholarships program is an important platform to make architecture education available to all and diversify research in architecture, while connecting students and emerging professionals to AIANY members and programs. Awardees frequently present the products of their research grants at the Center for Architecture for AIANY members and the interested public.

POST-PROFESSIONAL GRANTS

Arnold W. Brunner Grant ($50,000) The Arnold W. Brunner Grant is awarded to mid-career architects for advanced study in any area of architectural investigation that will contribute to the knowledge, teaching, or practice of the art and science of architecture. Projects are judged based on their engagement with contemporary local and global architectural issues and the usefulness of the research’s end product. 2021 recipients include:

Jaffer Kolb, Ivi Diamantopolou, and Samuel Stewart-Halevy (New York, NY), awarded $15,000 for “TestBeds: Mockups for Public Space”
Rachel Dickey (Charlotte, NC), awarded $15,000 for “Architectural Acoustic Solutions for the Everyday”
Rosalyne Shieh, AIA, NCARB (Brooklyn, NY), awarded $15,000 for “Listening So We Might See: Architecture and Oral History in Taiwan”
Peter Zuspan, AIA (Brooklyn, NY), awarded $5,000 for “The Performance of Shame: The Desegregation Renovations of Downtown Atlanta”

The Center for Architecture plans to collaborate with the recipients to create on-site programming at the completion of their projects.

The Arnold W. Brunner Grant provides single or multiple awards of up to $15,000 each. Applications for the 2020 cycle are due February 1, 2022 .

Stewardson Keefe LeBrun Travel Grant ($50,000)

Originally conceived as a fund to provide architects with the experience of a European Grand Tour, the Stewardson Keefe LeBrun Travel Grant now provides early or mid-career architects with the opportunity to explore unique travel research topics around the world. 2021 recipients, who will be announced in January 2022 , received a total of $50,000 to pursue their research.

2021 recipients will carry out their research throughout the course of 2022 and may present their projects at the Center for Architecture upon completion.

The grant provides single or multiple awards of up to $25,000 in total each year. The Center for Architecture is currently accepting applications for the 2022 Stewardson Keefe LeBrun Travel Grant. Applications are due November 10, 2022.

STUDENT SCHOLARSHIPS AND AWARDS

Center for Architecture Design Scholarship ($15,000) The Center for Architecture’s namesake scholarship is targeted at students seeking their first professional degree in architecture or a related design discipline from an accredited school within New York State. The dean or chair of the architectural school or accredited design program may invite up to two students from their respective college or university to apply, based on their academic performance and evidence of financial need. 2021 recipients were:

Ava Sierra Heckman, awarded $7,500 toward a Master of Architecture, Columbia GSAPP
Abby Stein, awarded $7,500 toward a Master of Architecture in Landscape Architecture, City College of New York

The Center for Architecture Design Scholarship offers single or multiple awards of up to $7,500. Applications for the 2022 cycle are due March 21, 2022 .

Allwork Scholarship ($37,500) The Allwork Scholarship supports architecture students with demonstrated financial need seeking their first professional degree in architecture or a related design discipline from an accredited school within New York State. In order to apply for this award, students must be nominated by the dean or chair of the school of architecture in which they are currently studying. 2021 recipients of this merit-based scholarship are:

Sanjana Lahiri , awarded $7,500 for Bachelor of Architecture, The Cooper Union
Michael Sluchevsky , awarded $7,500 toward a Bachelor of Architecture, The Cooper Union
Lucia Song , awarded $7,500 toward a Master of Architecture, Columbia GSAPP
Carlos Blanco , awarded $7,500 toward a Master of Architecture, Yale University
Denice Guillermo , awarded $7,500 toward a Master of Architecture, SUNY Buffalo

The Allwork Scholarship offers multiple awards of up to $7,500 each, with the potential of an honors grant of up to $10,000. Applications for the 2022 cycle are due March 21, 2022 .

Walter A. Hunt, Jr. Scholarship ($45,000) Founded to promote and encourage the study of architecture by New York City public high school students, the Walter A. Hunt, Jr. Scholarship provides a two-year scholarship to supplement tuition and related costs during their freshman and sophomore years at a NAAB-accredited school of architecture in New York State. The scholarship honors Hunt’s dedication to the field of architecture and his wish to specifically support New York City public high school students. The 2021 recipients of the award were:

Nozima Nurullaeva, a graduate of Stuyvesant High School, awarded $20,000 toward a Bachelor of Architecture at the Pratt Institute
Brittanie Chen, a graduate of Brooklyn Technical High School, awarded $20,000 toward a Bachelor of Architecture at Cornell University
Md Hoque, a graduate of Stuyvesant High School, awarded $5,000 toward a Bachelor of Architecture at Syracuse University.

The Walter A. Hunt, Jr. Scholarship awards $20,000 annually, to be dispersed over the recipient’s freshman and sophomore years of college. Applications for the 2022 cycle are due June 17, 2022 .

Douglas Haskell Award for Student Journals ($5,000) The Douglas Haskell Award for Student Journals supports student journalism on architecture, planning, and related subjects, and fosters regard for intelligent criticism among future professionals. The award is not intended as a prize for individuals, but to support the ongoing publication of student-edited journals whose subject matter pertains to architectural design, history, and theory. The 2021 Douglass Haskell Award recipients were:

PLAT , an independent journal produced by students at Rice University Architecture, awarded $1,750
Infra-Structures , the new student journal of the Northeastern University School of Architecture , awarded $1,750

2021 honorable mentions were given to:

Carolina Planning Journal of the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, the oldest student-run planning journal in the United States, awarded $500
PATIO , a student journal of the Columbia GSAPP that amplifies voices of Latinx designers, awarded $500
PLOT , produced by the City College of New York Bernard and Anne Spitzer School of Architecture , awarded $500.

The Douglas Haskell Award offers single or multiple awards of up to $5,000. Applications for the 2022 cycle are due June 17, 2022.

To find out more about our upcoming deadlines, please visit: www.centerforarchitecture.org/scholarships-grants .

About Center for Architecture Grants and Scholarships The Center for Architecture, in partnership with AIANY, awards scholarships and grant awards throughout the year for architectural students, architectural student journals, and practicing architects. Scholarships are open to New York city and grants are open to applicants nationwide.

2021 grants and scholarships are awarded by the 2021 Scholarship Committee: Barry Bergdoll, Hon. AIANY , Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning & Preservation Catherine S. Seavitt Nordenson, AIA , Catherine Seavitt Studio Carol Loewenson, FAIA, LEED AP, Mitchell Giurgola Eve B. Klein, Assoc. AIA , User Design Information Group, The Graduate Center, CUNY Gia Wolff, AIA, NOMA, NCARB , Cooper Union Hilary M. Sample, FAIA , Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning & Preservation, MOS Kimberly Yao, AIA , Architecture Research Office, Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning & Preservation Nina Cooke-John, AIA , Studio Cooke John, Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning & Preservation Sara Lopergolo, FAIA , Selldorf Architects Sharon E. Sutton, FAIA, PhD , University of Washington

About the Center for Architecture The Center for Architecture is the premier cultural venue for architecture and the built environment in New York City, informed by the complexity of the City’s urban fabric and in dialogue with the global community. The Center shares a home with the AIA New York Chapter and has the unique advantage of drawing upon the ideas and experiences of practicing architects to produce thought-provoking exhibitions, informative public programs, and quality design education experiences for K-12 students. It also leads New York City’s annual month-long architecture and design festival, Archtober. The Center for Architecture’s aim is to further public knowledge about New York City architecture and architects, foster exchange and collaboration among members of the design, development, building, scholarly, and policy sectors, and inspire new ideas about the role of design in communities by presenting contemporary and practical issues in architecture and urbanism to a general audience. www.centerforarchitecture.org