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AIAS/AIA Trust Scholarship for Emerging Professionals
This scholarship program is intended to assist financially-challenged students with paying their tuition and/or other direct educational expenses. The architecture profession needs talented individuals to help lead it into the future and we expect this program will help facilitate that.
Up to six scholarships of $750 each will be awarded each year. The program is for students in the fifth year of an undergraduate professional degree or the first year of graduate professional degree.
Check back later this year for the application.
American Architectural Foundation (AAF)
Each year the AAF offers several scholarships and fellowships (deadlines vary). These include:
- AAF Minority/Disadvantaged Scholarships
- The Richard Morris Hunt Fellowship
- The American Architectural Foundation%u2019s Traveling Fellowship at the Sir John Soane's Museum
- The RTKL Traveling Fellowship
For more information, click here.
Scholarships Offered by Colleges
Many colleges and universities have scholarship programs to support undergraduate and graduate studies. Please visit the Web sites of the individual architecture programs to learn more.
ZGF Scholarship
Zimmer Gunsul Frasca Architects LLP is a nationally recognized architecture, planning and interior design firm with a long commitment to higher education. This Scholarship Fund is intended to recognize and foster students who have a demonstrated talent and passion for architecture. The $10,000 annual stipend will be awarded to an admitted architecture student who is in a fifth year or master's program at any accredited college or university within the United States. In addition to the financial award, an internship at one of our offices will be offered.
For more information, click here and then click on "ZGF Scholarship."
Association of Women in Architecture Foundation (AWAF)
The AWAF offers cash awards to women students who have completed at least one full year (18 units minimum) of Architecture; Civil, Structural, Mechanical, or Electrical Engineering as related to Architecture; Landscape Architecture; Urban and Land Planning; Interior Design; Architectural Rendering and Illustration; or Environmental Design, and leading to a Degree.
For more information, click here.
Simpson Strong-Tie Company, Inc. Student Scholarship Program
The Structural Engineering/Architecture Student Scholarship Program offers scholarships to support education and encourage the design and building of safer structures in our communities. The scholarships is available to juniors and seniors in full-time undergraduate programs at select colleges and universities. Up to 53 $1,000 awards given annually.
For more information, click here.
Student Research Fellowship in Accessible Transportation
Are you a graduate student with an interest in community transportation for people with disabilities? Or, do you know an interested student? Easter Seals Project ACTION and the Council of University Transportation Centers seek solid research and development of products such as reports, articles, tools and curricula that advance the availability and use of accessible community transportation by people with disabilities. Two post-baccalaureate students enrolled in transportation or related programs will be awarded a $3,000 stipend to conduct the work.
For more information, click here.
Rieger Graham Prize
The Institute of Classical Architecture & Classical America
is pleased to announce the bi-annual Rieger Graham Prize to be awarded to a recent graduate or practitioner of architecture.
The centerpiece of the prize is a three-month Fellowship at the American Academy in Rome, the premier overseas center for independent study and research in the fine arts and humanities.
The purpose of the prize is to promote the practice of classical architecture and to foster the continuity of knowledge of the classical tradition.
The total award will include Academy fees, travel allotment and stipend. Academy fees provide a single room and board; a double room can be made available, but the award recipient would pay the cost of meals for an additional person.
For more information, click here.
AIA Corporate Architects and Facility Management Knowledge Community
The AIA Corporate Architects and Facility Management Knowledge Community (CAFM), a partnership of owners and architects working for or within corporations or other client organizations offers the CAFM scholarship program. Intended to foster interest in alternative careers, such as facility management, this scholarship is open to students currently enrolled in an architecture program.
For more information, click here.
Rotch Traveling Scholarship
The Boston Society of Architects announces the Rotch Traveling Scholarship, a prestigious two-stage design competition that ends with one young designer receiving a stipend of $35,000 to spend eight months traveling the world.
Established in 1883 for the "advancement of education in architecture," the Rotch Traveling Scholarship is the oldest program of its kind in the United States. The roster of Rotch scholars includes many of the country's most distinguished architects, including Henry Bacon, Ralph Walker, Wallace Harrison, Louis Skidmore, Edward Durrell Stone, Gordon Bunshaft, and Victor Lundy.
To be eligible for the scholarship, designers must be U.S. citizens under 35 years of age on January 1. They also must have either a degree from an accredited U.S. school of architecture and one year of full-time professional experience in a Massachusetts architecture firm or a degree from an accredited Massachusetts school of architecture and one year of full-time experience in any architecture firm.
For more information, click here.
BSA Research Grants in Architecture 2009
This program supports original research projects. We are interested in innovative, practice-based and practice-oriented research that expands the definition of research in the profession and the industry (e.g., research that is genuinely multi-disciplinary, not solely academic, etc.). We encourage proposals that bring together those in practice and in academia, either by including professionals and academics on the project team, providing opportunities to engage students through research studio projects, or by other means of joining research efforts across the field of architecture.
Submissions from anyone (architects, academics, designers, product developers, students, etc.) interested in supporting and contributing to an expanded architecture knowledge-base are encouraged. Grants awarded may include:
- Grants in amounts up to $10,000 to individuals, collaborative teams or organizations
- Grants up to $2,000 for students
- Grants up to $10,000 to support research studio projects
- One grant of $40,000 may be awarded to a significant research project
Submission guidelines and applications are available online at www.architects.org/grants.
Gensler Scholarships
2010 Gensler Brinkmann Scholarship
The Gensler Brinkmann Scholarship was established as a memorial to Don Brinkmann, an inspirational and gifted interior designer who personified the essence of design vision and leadership. Interior design students of CIDA-accredited programs will be selected for academic scholarships and summer internship opportunities. Submission Deadline: November 15, 2010
2010 Gensler African American Internship and Scholarship
The Gensler African-American Internship and Scholarship celebrates our firm's commitment to diversity through mentorship and empowerment of the best emerging design talent. Top African-American students of NAAB-accredited architecture programs will be selected for a summer internship and academic scholarship. Submission Deadline: January 15, 2010
Submission guidelines and applications are available online at www.gensler.com/scholarships.
AIA Eastern Illinois Chapter: 2009 Architecture Scholarship
The Scholarship Committee and Board of Directors of the AIA EASTERN ILLINOIS CHAPTER is now taking applications for their scholarship for the school year beginning in the Fall of 2009. Two $1,000.00 scholarships will be available and awarded to successful applicants. The AIA Eastern Illinois Chapter reserves the right to not award the scholarships if none of the applications submitted meet the application criteria. All decisions of the scholarship committee and chapter board are final.
Applicants must meet the following criteria in order to be eligible for the AIA/EIC Scholarship:
- Applicants must be U.S. Citizens
- Applicants must be enrolled for the FALL of 2009, pursuing a professional degree in a program accredited by the National Architectural Accrediting Board (NAAB): Bachelor of Architecture degree; or Master of Architecture degree, resulting in eligibility of the student to take an architect examination for registry.
- Applicants must have a home residence of record within the AIA/EIC Chapter boundaries (Ford, Grundy, Iroquois, Kankakee, LaSalle, Livingston, and Will counties and the portion of Cook County, which includes the townships of Bremen, Bloom, Calumet, Lemont, Orland, Palos, Rich, Thornton and Worth) or the AIA/EIC Chapter Board approves the application for review.
Submission guidelines and applications are available for download here (PDF).