SOM Prize for Architecture, Design and Urban Design
 Jieun Yang (M. Arch. ’08, Columbia University) has won the 2008 SOM Prize, a $50,000 travel and study fellowship. Yang was chosen on July 24 from a pool of 100 applicants nationally. The competition is open to graduating undergraduate and graduate students from accredited schools of architecture, design and urban design. Applicants were judged on the quality of their design portfolios and their research proposals and travel itineraries.
This grand prize enables Yang to complete in-depth research, collaborate with other designers and pursue independent study outside the realm of established patterns. She will travel extensively in the America, France, Sweden and China studying surbubia as it originated in post-World War II U.S. and Europe and currently is being emulated extensively in China. “As the western model of the suburb is crumbling down, these models are being copied in developing countries in other parts of the world," explained Yang. " Will these copied versions of the American suburb survive the threat that the originators are facing?" View final report: |
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SOM Travel Fellowship for Architecture, Design and Urban Design
Will Zajac (M. Arch. ’08, University of Florida) was selected for the fellowship. |
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The jury recognized Segal for a unique research proposal that focused on an exploration of the design process, modeling and testing of specific structures in Europe. He plans to interview and collaborate with some of the engineers and model facilities responsible for those projects and then visit the finished structures. |
In addition to the SOM Prize, the SOM Foundation also awards a $20,000 travel fellowship.
The 2008 Structural Engineering Travel Fellowship was awarded to
SOM China Prize
In March 2008, the SOM Foundation awarded two grants in the amount of $10,000 each for a 2007 and 2008 SOM China Prize, a traveling fellowship given to outstanding Chinese national students of architecture or urban design from an accredited architecture school in China.
The 2007 was awarded to HaoHao Zhu of Southeast University (see 2007 Fellows for information about Haohao Zhu) and the 2008 prize was awarded to Wang Baozheng of Peking University Graduate School of Architecture. The winners were selected because their entries demonstrated appropriate solutions of architecture and design based in traditional methodology.
Wang Baozhen is the recipient of the SOM Foundation’s 2008 China Prize for Architecture. Having grown up in the traditional family, Baozhen is interested in Chinese traditional culture. He studied Architecture at Peking University Graduate School of Architecture, and received his Master’s Degree in Architecture Design and Theory in June 2008. Up to now, he has been teaching in Zhengzhou University in Henan province on the Yellow River which is known as Chinese Mother River. He is not only concerned about the unity power of usual material, frame, form, space, function and natural factors such as light, wind, rain or snow in architecture, but also about how renew from old elements.
View Wang Baozheng's final report.
View the press release about the 2007-2008 China Prize winners.
