On Thursday, May 5th, the SOM Foundation announced three winners of its 2016 China Prize. Each award winner will receive a $5,000 fellowship grant for research and travel outside of China. The fellowships enable students in the field of architecture and urban design to broaden their education through travel and gain an understanding of the need to improve the built and natural environments.
March 17, 2016
MIT News Features Nathan Brown, Recipient of the 2016 Structural Engineering Traveling Fellowship
MIT News Features Nathan Brown, Recipient of the 2016 Structural Engineering Traveling Fellowship
MIT News has featured Nathan Brown, recipient of the 2016 Structural Engineering Traveling Fellowship. Nathan Brown is a graduate student in Building Technology in the Department of Architecture and member of the Digital Structures group. In the article, Brown’s advisor Caitlin Mueller mentions that the fellowship “will allow him to expand on his research on multiobjective optimization done at MIT” and that ”his itinerary, which will take him across four continents, is sure to deeply impact him as a designer and researcher.”
October 29, 2015
SOM Foundation Awards $100,000 in Fellowships to Five Graduates in Architecture and Engineering
SOM Foundation Awards $100,000 in Fellowships to Five Graduates in Architecture and Engineering
The SOM Foundation has announced the recipients of its 2015 SOM Foundation fellowships, which since 1981 have been conferred annually to graduating students of architecture, design, urban design, and structural engineering. Funded through an endowment established by the partners of SOM, the awards are internationally recognized for their mission to nurture future leaders in design.
May 16, 2015
SOM Foundation Featured in Architectural Record
SOM Foundation Featured in Architectural Record
The SOM (Skidmore, Owings & Merrill) Foundation exemplifies what is known as a corporate foundation…Awarding fewer but bigger prizes meant that more money could be shifted into direct action, Abadan explains, adding that the decision “elevated” the SOM Foundation's work over other travel fellowships being established at the time. The award allows recipients to “delve more deeply into a subject and gives our program a public face.”
December 19, 2014
SOM Foundation Announces Winners of the 2014 UK Award
SOM Foundation Announces Winners of the 2014 UK Award
On December 3, 2014, the SOM Foundation awarded its annual UK Award to students Kent Gin and Mike Lim. Gin, who is enrolled at the University of East London, won for his submission titled “Cultural Perforation of Madrid, Disruption of the Defined.” Lim, a student at the Royal College of Art, won for his entry, “Untitled, 2014. Mixed Media.”