ADAM Architecture is calling for entries for this year’s Student Travel Scholarship to support and reward outstanding research in architecture and urban design.  

The theme for this year is “Interpretations of Classicism”.

Entries are sought from undergraduate and graduate students, from all UK and overseas schools of architecture students, from Part I up to 3 years after Part II , or equivalent qualification. The £1,500 award is to fund their research, overseas travel and accommodation.  The closing date for entries is Friday 24th May 2013.

The judges will be looking for a significant piece of original research work, and an outstanding contribution to architectural knowledge.  The judging panel will include the Directors at ADAM Architecture, Matt Gaskin Head of the School of Architecture at Oxford Brookes University; Kathryn Findlay, Ushida Findlay Architects; and Michael Hammond, Editor in Chief at World Architecture News.com.

To apply send a completed application form, a portfolio of work with up to 20 images in printed or digital form, and a short CV.  A hard copy of your application and supporting documents is preferred.

Send your application to: Sue Beaumont, Travel Scholarship 2013, ADAM Architecture, Old Hyde House, Hyde Street, Winchester, Hampshire, SO23 7DW

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Nicholas Thompson

Winner 2012

Nicholas Thompson has been awarded ADAM Architecture's Travel Scholarship for 2012.

He is planning to travel to Malta to study the evolution of Baroque planning and architecture in the town of Valletta. With its abundance of honey-coloured Maltese limestone and unique Baroque town plan, Valletta is well known for possessing a singular harmony of design. In particular Nicholas plans to investigate how building materials – including a rich legacy of carved stone – and design intersect to contribute to sense of place. As part of this research Nicholas plans to bring a piece of Maltese stone back to London to undertake a relief stone carving of a Baroque ornament copied from a building in Valletta.

Nicholas is currently studying Historic Architectural Stone Carving at the City & Guilds of London Art School, having previously obtained an MA in History and an MSc in Town Planning in his home country of Canada.

Elizabeth Israel

Winner 2011
Photograph - View over Ooty Hill Station in Tamil Nadu, India

Elizabeth Israel, a recent graduate of the University of Notre Dame School of Architecture, has been awarded the 2011 ADAM Architecture Travel Scholarship. Now in its sixth year, the scholarship enables ADAM Architecture, the UK-based firm specialising in classical and traditional architecture and urbanism, to support and reward outstanding research.

Her research proposal on European-settled hill stations in South India was a clear favourite with the judging panel, which included Robert Adam and George Saumarez Smith, directors at ADAM Architecture, Prof Georgia Butina Watson, Head of the Dept. of Planning at Oxford Brookes University and Michael Hammond, Editor in Chief at World Architecture News.com.

Elizabeth plans to investigate a regional network of hill stations for patterns in the urban morphology, particularly with regards to environmental and cross-cultural conditions. The Indian hill stations were high-altitude towns formerly developed by Europeans as summer retreats. She plans to explore what urban types evolved from the exchange between the European settlers and the local Indian peoples, as well as analyze how the urban space and architectural language engaged the topography, climate, local materials, and traditional building methods.

Her study will focus on seven hill stations in the South Indian states of Kerala, Tamil Nadu, and Karnataka, including Srinagar, Coorg, Ooty, Coonoor, Kotagiri, Kodaikanal and Munnar. Other possible sites may include Wayanad, Nelliyampatti, Devikulam, Peermada and Ponmudi. These sites were chosen because of their historical significance, regional proximity and similarity in environmental conditions. She plans to travel to India during December 2011 and January 2012.

Elizabeth, a native of Indianapolis, Indiana, earned a Bachelor of Architecture in 2011 from the University of Notre Dame. She will be pursuing a Masters of Architectural History at the University of Virginia, beginning in fall 2011.

Evan Oxland

Winner 2010

Evan Oxland travelled to Japan to research the history and vernacular techniques and traditions of Anoh dry stone masons. He consulted and worked with the Awata family who are possibly the worlds remaining practitioners of monumental dry stone walls. The Anoh style has been used for hundreds of years to create structures like castle walls and are both structural and earthquake resistant. Evan holds a degree from the College of the Humanities at Carleton University in Canada and is finishing a Masters in Garden History at the University of Bristol.

Robbie Kerr

Winner 2008

Robbie Kerr travelled to Cuba to research the 'Metamorphosis of Cuban Architecture; development, decay and opportunity'. Robbie's time was spent studying Havana's wide range of buildings from the gritty suburbs of Marianao to the crumbling masterpieces of Centro Habana.

Click here to view research report as a PDF (5.9mb)

Emily Penn

Joint Winner 2007

Emily Penn traveled across Asia by train from St. Petersburg to Shanghai, via Moscow, Ulaanbaatar and Beijing. Her aim was to compare the environmental aspects of tradition vernacular architecture with the new sustainable architecture to provide ideas for the architecture of the future.

Click here to view research report as a PDF (5.4mb)

Paige Johnson

Joint Winner 2007

Paige Johnson's search for the Art Deco landscape took her to France, Belgium and across England. Her research revealed the existence of this little known landscape style and its importance as a vibrant and influential part of culture and design in the early-twentieth century.

Click here to view research report as a PDF (5.2mb)