Deadline
November 14, 2024
2024 Robert L. Wesley Award Opens
2024 Robert L. Wesley Award Opens
The SOM Foundation is pleased to announce the opening of the 2024 Robert L. Wesley Award. The award supports BIPOC undergraduate students enrolled in architecture, landscape architecture, interior architecture, urban design, or engineering programs in the United States. This year, three students will receive a $10,000 award in addition to a yearlong mentorship program that connects the students with leading BIPOC practitioners and educators. The award is named in honor of Robert L. Wesley, the first Black partner at SOM.
Deadline
November 11, 2024
2024 Research Prize Opens
2024 Research Prize Opens
The SOM Foundation is pleased to announce the opening of the 2024 Research Prize. Two $30,000 prizes will be awarded to faculty-led interdisciplinary teams based in the United States to conduct original research that contributes to this year’s topic, “Advancing Toward a Water-Secure Future.” The Research Prize was created in 2018 to cultivate new ideas and meaningful research that addresses the critical issues of our time.
Deadline
November 11, 2024
2024 European Research Prize Opens
2024 European Research Prize Opens
The SOM Foundation is pleased to announce the opening of the 2024 European Research Prize. The €20,000 prize will be awarded to a faculty-led interdisciplinary team based in Europe to conduct original research that contributes to this year’s topic, “Advancing Toward a Water-Secure Future.” The European Research Prize was created in 2021 to cultivate new ideas and meaningful research that addresses the critical issues of our time.
September 24, 2024
SOM Foundation Features the Work of Virginia Hanusik
SOM Foundation Features the Work of Virginia Hanusik
For our 2024–25 award cycle, the SOM Foundation is proud to feature the work of artist Virginia Hanusik.
September 3, 2024
SOM Foundation Announces Jury for the 2024 Research Prize
SOM Foundation Announces Jury for the 2024 Research Prize
The SOM Foundation is pleased to announce the jury for the 2024 Research Prize. This year’s jury will be led by SOM Foundation Executive Director Iker Gil and will include Carson Chan (Director, Emilio Ambasz Institute for the Joint Study of the Built and Natural Environment; Curator, MoMA’s Department of Architecture and Design, New York City), Carol Coletta (President and CEO, Memphis River Parks Partnership, Memphis), Alex Krieger (Professor in Practice of Urban Design, Emeritus, Harvard University Graduate School of Design, Cambridge; SOM Foundation fellow), and Shannon Nichol (Cofounder, GGN, Seattle).
September 3, 2024
SOM Foundation Announces Jury for the 2024 European Research Prize
SOM Foundation Announces Jury for the 2024 European Research Prize
The SOM Foundation is pleased to announce the jury for the 2024 Research Prize. This year’s jury will be led by SOM Foundation Executive Director Iker Gil and will include Montserrat Bonvehi Rosich (Visiting Assistant Professor of Architecture and Landscape Architecture, Sam Fox School of Design at Washington University in St. Louis; SOM Foundation fellow), Margarita Jover (Professor in Architecture, Program Co-Director of Landscape + Engineering, Tulane University; cofounder aldayjover, Barcelona and New Orleans), Henk Ovink (Executive Director and founding Commissioner, Global Commission on the Economics of Water, New York City), and Jane Withers (Director, Jane Withers Studio; Curator, Water Pressure: Designing for the Future, London).
September 3, 2024
SOM Foundation Announces Jury for the 2024 Robert L. Wesley Award
SOM Foundation Announces Jury for the 2024 Robert L. Wesley Award
The SOM Foundation is pleased to announce the jury for the 2024 Robert L. Wesley Award. This year’s jury will be led by Robert L. Wesley (Retired Partner, SOM, Chicago) and will include Monica Chada (Founder and Principal, Civic Projects Architecture, Chicago), Andrew Santa Lucia (Founder, Office Andorus; Associate Professor of Practice, Portland State University’s School of Architecture, Portland), and Stephen Slaughter (Chairperson of Undergraduate Architecture, Pratt Institute’s School of Architecture, New York City).
August 19, 2024
SOM Foundation Announces Topic for 2024–2025
SOM Foundation Announces Topic for 2024–2025
The SOM Foundation is pleased to announce the topic for 2024–2025. This year’s awards will focus on the topic of “Advancing Toward a Water-Secure Future.”
The SOM Foundation is pleased to announce the winners of the 2024 SOM Foundation China Fellowship. Zhangxiang Dai, Wenxiao Xiang, and Xiangqing Zheng will each receive $5,000 to conduct independent travel and research. This year’s topic, “Adapting Housing Strategies to Respond to New Realities,” seeks to explore affordable, equitable, and innovative modes of multifamily housing that respond to current and future needs.
On Saturday, July 20, Maya Livio, recipient of the 2024 Researcher-in-Residence, will lead a conversation with artist Huntrezz Janos and writer and researcher Emma Kemp as part of her research project “Hospes: Housing Justice and Multispecies Cohabitation at the Wildland-Urban Interface.”
