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2012 RIBA Norman Foster Travelling Scholarship call for entries
Author: Caroline Ednie
The 2012 RIBA Norman Foster Travelling Scholarship is now open to applications from students at RIBA-accredited schools of architecture around the world. A £6,000 grant will be awarded to one student by a panel of judges which includes Lord Foster and Angela Brady, President of the RIBA.
First established in 2006, the RIBA Norman Foster Travelling Scholarship is now in its sixth year and is intended to fund international research on a topic related to the survival of our towns and cities, in a location of the student’s choice. Past RIBA Norman Foster Scholars have travelled through the Americas, Europe, Africa, South East Asia, the Middle and the Far East, and Russia.
Proposals for research might include: learning from the past to inform the future; the future of society; the density of settlements; sustainability; the use of resources; the quality of urban life; and transport.
Past recipients of the RIBA Norman Foster Travelling Scholarship have included, in 2010: ‘In Search of Cold Spaces – a study of northern public space’ by Andrew Mackintosh, Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen.
Lord Foster said:
“As a student I won a prize that allowed me to spend a summer travelling through Europe and to study first hand buildings and cities that I knew only from the pages of books. It was a revelation – liberating and exhilarating in so many ways. Today it is my privilege to fund the RIBA Norman Foster Travelling Scholarship, which I hope will have a lasting legacy – offering the chance for discovery and the inspiration for exciting new work – for generations to come.”
The deadline for entry is Monday 26 March 2012. Further details and an application form can be downloaded from the RIBA website: www.architecture.com/fosterscholarship
