The College may assist students in paying for registration fees for approved events. Visit with your advisor about this great opportunity.
2024 SmithGroup Justice, Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Scholarship
SmithGroup is now accepting applications for the 2024 SmithGroup Justice, Equity, Diversity and Inclusion (J.E.D.I.) Scholarship program. The scholarship's mission is to provide students from historically underrepresented groups with opportunities to pursue their academic and professional goals while also working to create a more diverse and inclusive design industry.
The scholarship provides a one-time award of $6,000 to five students studying either architecture, interior design, landscape architecture, urban planning or engineering, to help offset their tuition. Each recipient will also serve as a paid summer intern at any SmithGroup office in the United States where their discipline is located.
The deadline for applications is Thursday, November 30, 2023. Please share this scholarship opportunity with faculty, staff and students at your institution to encourage eligible students to apply.
Further information about the scholarship, eligibility and requirements is available in the application portal.
SCHOLARSHIP FOR GENDER EQUITY IN DESIGN
The Scholarship for Gender Equity in Design is awarded to a student studying architecture, interior design, or graphic design. The scholarship is inspired by Dorothy Brink Ingemann, collaborator and wife of William Ingemann, who was the founder of the architectural office that years later became BWBR. Dorothy was one of the earliest women to graduate with an architecture degree from the University of Minnesota in 1925, and began working with Ingemann in 1927. She is responsible for many of the firm’s early designs and renderings. In honor of the path Dorothy followed into the profession, BWBR offers this scholarship to support women, gender non-conforming, and trans students pursuing a professional design degree.
2024 Winter Shadowship program
Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM) is pleased to announce that the application for our 2024 Winter Shadowship program is now open!
This week-long program is hosted by our Employee Resource Groups (Arquitectos, Asian Alliance, NOMA, Pride and Women’s Initiative) and offers selected candidates an immersive professional experience, along with mentorship, and guidance to students of all backgrounds. The program is open to applicants who are planning careers in architecture, engineering, urban planning, graphic design, or interior design, and who share a passion for advancing equity, diversity and inclusion in the AEC industry.
This program will take place January 8-12, 2024 and will be held in-person in our Chicago, London, Los Angeles, New York, San Francisco, Seattle, and Washington DC studios.
Applicants must be currently enrolled in an undergraduate or graduate program. Applications must be received by 11:59 p.m. EST on Sunday, November 5th. Further details and requirements can be found at https://www.som.com/culture/careers/.
We would like to ask that you forward this announcement to your students and display the attached poster in your studio. Thanks in advance for your assistance and support!
Kaira Looro Architecture Competition
Kaira Looro Architecture Competition, a non profit contest for students and young architects on humanitarian architectures in developing countries. Here is an opportunity for research and professional growth for students with the current edition of the competition.
The architecture contest theme is the design of a Children's House in Africa (Senegal), to promote health and nutrition. The competition aims to launch the careers of new architectural talent, to raise awareness in the international community on the emergencies issue, and to support humanitarian projects. Indeed, the proceeds of the competition will be entirely devolved to Balouo Salo's charity projects and to the construction of the winning project of the competition.
There will be cash prizes and internships at the architectural firms in the jury.
VELUX Award 2024
Registrations for the International VELUX Award 2024 for Students of Architecture are open!
The VELUX Group invites the students of architecture to participate in the International VELUX Award competition on the theme “Light of Tomorrow”. The 2024 competition is the 11th edition, which so far has received thousands of exciting daylight projects from more than 6000 students of architecture around the world.
Since the International VELUX Award for Students of Architecture was first launched in 2004, it has grown into what is probably the largest competition for students of architecture, the architects who will shape the buildings of our future.
The award invites students to explore the role of daylight in architecture and inspire new thinking. The aim of the award is to encourage and challenge students of architecture, and to create a deeper understanding of this specific and ever-relevant source of energy, light and life.
The student teams will work on their projects in one of the two categories: ‘Daylight in buildings’ or ‘Daylight investigations’.
Register now
The registration for the participation in the competition is open from 1 September 2023 and stays open until 01 April 2024.
To participate in the competition, first step for students is registration with an e-mail address and a phone number. The students are then encouraged to gather their team, connect with the teacher and start developing their project already during the registration phase. In this way, students can have several months to develop their ideas into innovative and out-of-the-box daylight projects.
Register here. https://iva.awardsplatform.com/
Deadline is May 30th
The PAC College of Architecture Prize
Awarding the excellence that emerges from a collaborative process, the PAC CoA Prize offers the winning team an award of $2,500. For details, see this link.
U.S. Department of Energy Solar Decathlon Competition
The U.S. Department of Energy Solar Decathlon® is a collegiate competition, initiated in 2002, that has grown to showcase much more than solar technologies. Today, the 10 contests that are the foundation of Solar Decathlon inspire student teams to design and build highly efficient buildings powered by renewables, while optimizing for key considerations including affordability, resilience, and occupant health. The winners are those teams that best blend architectural and engineering excellence with innovation in how their building interacts with the world around it.
Arch Out Loud
ARCH OUT LOUD holds annual and themed competitions for student designers. Check out their latest offerings.
Leicester B. Holland Prize
The Leicester B. Holland Prize is an annual competition that recognizes the best single-sheet measured drawing of an historic building, site, or structure prepared by an individual(s) to the standards of the Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS), Historic American Engineering Record (HAER), or the Historic American Landscapes Survey (HALS). The prize is supported by the Paul Rudolph Trust, the American Institute of Architects, and the Center for Architecture, Design, and Engineering at the Library of Congress, and is administered by the Heritage Documentation Programs of the National Park Service (HABS/HAER/HALS). The prize honors Leicester B. Holland (1882-1952), FAIA, chairman of the AIA's Committee on Historic Buildings, head of the Fine Arts Division of the Library of Congress, first curator of the HABS collection, co-founder of the HABS program in the 1930s, and the first chair of the HABS Advisory Board.
RAMSA Fellowship
The RAMSA Travel Fellowship is a $10,000 prize awarded annually by Robert A.M. Stern Architects for travel and research. The fellowship seeks to promote investigations into the perpetuation of tradition through invention—key to the firm’s own work—and is given to an individual who has proven insight and interest in the profession and its future, as well as the ability to carry forth in-depth research.
Home Base Earth
Home Base Earth is an organization that’s the main purpose is to give sufficient and modern environmental solutions to create a better life for people all around the world.
We focus, especially on migrants. Our vision is to develop an environmental home base in new, permanent and appropriate settlements built by their own hands that will restructure their lives in a positive way.
Home Base Earth- Global Architecture Competition is our initiative to awaken the young generation to think and create sustainable cities for migrants. We offer an exciting grand prize for the winning team and many more career breaking opportunities. There are no age criteria. To know more please visit our Home Base Earth website.
JANUS et Cie Design Competition
JANUS et Cie introduces their first annual student design competition. Collaborating with architectural design firm Populous in the first year to develop the brief and foundational platform, the competition celebrates upcoming talents in the design industry and fosters creative innovation around the globe.
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