TRAVEL SCHOLARSHIP
The annual ADAM Architecture Travel Scholarship offers an opportunity for an architecture student to experience and develop a greater understanding of architecture and urban design.
CURRENT TRAVEL SCHOLARSHIP
2012 Travel Scholarship
Closed Friday 27th April 2012
Funding is awarded to the chosen student to cover travel, accommodation and research material for an educational journey with a specific architectural purpose. An opportunity is provided for the chosen scholar to present their research at a widely publicised lecture before a distinguished audience.
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For full Travel Scholarship Terms & Conditions, click here…
Elizabeth Israel
Winner 2011
Photograph - View over Ooty Hill Station in Tamil Nadu, India
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.
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)
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)
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)
Click here to view research report as a PDF (5.2mb)