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.”
The SOM Foundation is pleased to announce that Black Spectacles will now support Robert L. Wesley Award recipients as they work toward becoming licensed architects. Each year, Black Spectacles will offer two year-long, Expert-level subscriptions that will provide students with online tools to study for the Architect Registration Examination (ARE). Robert L. Wesley Award recipients can claim this resource within five years of receiving the award.
The SOM Foundation is pleased to announce the winner of the 2024 Structural Engineering Fellowship. Elizabeth Claypool will receive $20,000 to conduct original 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. With her proposal, “Exploring Innovative Housing: A Playbook for Optimism” Claypool aims to create a playbook for optimism: a survey of nineteen case studies to identify innovative solutions that create meaningful impacts on housing outcomes.
Deadline
May 17, 2024
2024 China Fellowship Opens
2024 China Fellowship Opens
The SOM Foundation is pleased to announce the opening of the 2024 China Fellowship. The $5,000 China Fellowship is awarded annually to three students in the last two years of either an undergraduate or graduate program in architecture, landscape architecture, interior architecture, or urban design in the People’s Republic of China to conduct independent travel and research that contributes to the SOM Foundation’s current topic, “Adapting Housing Strategies to Respond to New Realities.” The China Fellowship was created in 2006 to support emerging design leaders to broaden their education and contribute to their future professional and academic careers.
