Architecture Scholarship Programs

Private Funding

The American Architectural Foundation (AAF) is a not-for-profit organization whose main mission is to enlighten others on the role of architecture in the fabric of our communities. To those ends the AAF administers a number of scholarships that encourage students to pursue the study of architecture:

• American Architectural Foundation and Sir John Soane‘s Museum Foundation Traveling Fellowships are designed for graduate architecture students who wish to study abroad in England. Applicants must exhibit serious interest in the works of John Soane to be considered. Awards are $5,000.
• RTKL Traveling Fellowships are funded by a partner architecture firm and offer generous scholarship money to architecture majors.
• AAF Minority/Disadvantaged Scholarships go to architecture majors or high school seniors enrolling in an architecture program. Recipients are chosen on the basis of academic merit, financial need and/or minority status from pool of applicants. Awards may be as much as $2,500, depending on financial need.

The Architects League of Northern New Jersey provides a number of highly competitive scholarships restricted to applicants living only in certain New Jersey counties:

• Albert O. Halse Memorial Scholarship goes to an exemplary undergraduate architectural major whose talent lies in modeling.
• Architects League Scholastic Achievement goes to applicants with outstanding academic records in their major.
• Clarence Tabor Memorial Scholarships are awarded to majors in their last year, which for architecture majors is year five. Scholarships are given based on a range of criteria.

World Studio Foundation is an international organization devoted to promotion of the arts and creative education. Through programs, funding for organizations and scholarships, World Studio hopes to continue to enlighten the world on the force of creative collaboration and the importance of art at all levels. Scholarships are available for a smorgasbord of creative fields, including architecture. Applicants must be enrolled in a four-year program, majoring in architecture to qualify. Also preference is given to minorities and all applicants must demonstrate significant financial need. Awards vary.

The Joseph L. and Vivian A. Steele Architecture Scholarship Fund is administered by The Foundation for Enhancing Communities and provides money to upper level undergraduate or graduate architecture students.

Architecture College Scholarships

Architecture majors at Syracuse University may be eligible for the CIB Foundation, Inc. Scholarships. These scholarships are awarded to outstanding seniors who have completed an internship or co-op program affording them hands-on experience. Awards are $1,500.

Architecture majors at Iowa State University study in the standard five-year architecture degree plan within the College of Design. The program sponsors the following scholarships for architecture majors:

• Henningson, Durham and Richardson Awards are given to those majors in their final year who are able to demonstrate a commitment to the field through academic achievement and a written essay. Financial need is also a requirement. Awards are $1,000.
• HLM Design Scholarships are also carefully meted out to majors in their last year. Awards are made on the basis of academic achievement and extracurricular involvement in field-specific activities. Awards are $1,000.
• American Institute of Architects-Iowa Chapter Scholarships are given to undergraduates who exhibit talent in the design aspects of the major. Scholarships are $500.

Source: http://www.collegescholarships.org/scholarships/architecture.htm

American Architectural Foundation

American Architectural Foundation

(AAF) educates individuals and communities about the power of architecture to transform lives and improve the places where we live, learn, work, and play. Through our outreach programs, grants, scholarships and educational resources, AAF inspires people to become thoughtful and engaged stewards of the built environment.

About the American Architectural Foundation

Beautiful, functional, sustainable design improves our lives and strengthens the communities that bind us together. It inspires us to imagine a better world and empowers us to pursue that vision. For more than seventy-five years, these principles have guided the American Architectural Foundation.

We all share the responsibility of making good design decisions for our communities. The key to success is an informed, collaborative design process. AAF specializes in making that process happen. It seeks to educate, inform, and inspire elected officials, educational leaders, and other public-spirited decision makers to use design to create better communities.

AAF assembles design teams of diverse expertise; connects them with government officials, educators, business leaders, and others whose daily decisions help determine the design of our cities; and engages them all in a collaborative design process that responds to some of the most critical challenges facing our nation.

The experience awakens these leaders to the transformative power of design, demonstrates how to apply that power toward solving real-world problems, and generates the momentum necessary to effect rapid, innovative change in cities across the country.

AAF neither sells a product nor advocates a particular design style. It instead creates unique opportunities for the free, interdisciplinary exchange of ideas around the vital issues that shape our cities and define our society. Participants gain the knowledge and resources necessary to realize creative design solutions as well as the motivation to promote a vibrant design culture when they return home.

For more Detail, go to AAF Official Website.

NUS - Launch First Master of Landscape Architecture.

NUS Launches First Master of Landscape Architecture Programme, Supported by 24 Scholarships Worth $800,000.

Aspiring landscape architecture professionals can now look towards obtaining a Master degree in Landscape Architecture at the National University of Singapore (NUS). To support these professionals in their continuing education and training, the Singapore Workforce Development Agency (WDA) will introduce a Landscape Industry Scholarship Programme, where 24 scholarships worth about $800,000 will be given out in the next three years.

The NUS Department of Architecture is launching a two-year Master degree programme this year, the first Master degree to be supported and endorsed by the Singapore Institute of Landscape Architects (SILA). It is also the first to be offered by a local university.

Students will be trained in architectural design, site planning, estate development, environmental restoration, town or urban planning and historic preservation, amongst others. Some of the key modules will emphasize tropical and urban conditions, sustainability and ecological conservation. More details here.

passage from: http://newshub.nus.edu.sg/pressrel/0803/080312.html

Other Scholarships for Foreign Students

English as a Foreign Language scholarships for Cubans
Amount: Full tuition fee waivers, accommodation, living expenses and flights to and from London for one month.
Eligibility: You must be a lecturer from the University of Havana Medical Schools.
Criteria: Scholarships are available for July or August 2008.

English as a Foreign Language (EFL) scholarships
Amount: Full tuition fee waivers for full-time English as a Foreign Language courses.
Eligibility: Open to you if you need English language training. Preference is given to you if you are from a country outside Western Europe. This is also open to asylum-seekers, refugees or Eastern European nationals currently living in the UK who need to improve their English language skills.
Criteria: Financial need.
Deadline: Open throughout the academic year.
How to apply: Write a letter stating why you want to study an English as a Foreign Language course and why you need financial help. Please send this letter with your application to the English as a Foreign Language course. For information on how to apply for a course please see www.wmin.ac.uk/efl

Graduate Diploma in Architecture scholarship
This scholarship has been generously sponsored by the Tooley and Foster Partnership, one of the UK’s longest established architectural practices.
Amount: £2,000 per annum for two years, subject to satisfactory academic progress. If you are the selected student you will be given first refusal on a post in the Tooley and Foster Partnership practice. This will be in the summer at the end of your first year of the diploma and once you have graduated. There is no compulsion for you to take it up should you not wish to.
Eligibility: You must have been accepted for full-time study onto the Graduate Diploma in Architecture course and have confirmed with the Admissions Office that you have accepted their offer of a place.
Criteria: You will be evaluated based on your personal statement, aspirations in the field of architecture, academic excellence and engagement with the values and needs of the Tooley and Foster Partnership.
Application: You are required to submit an application package which consists of the following items:- a transcript of results from your first degree- one reference from your previous academic institution and one from your year out employer- a short statement (maximum 1000 words) setting out your general interest in the Graduate Diploma and your aspirations in the field of architecture, plus outlining your case for financial need.- a small A4 brochure (maximum 10 pages) showing examples of your design work, either from your first degree or from your year-out.
Deadline: 31 May 2008.

Short course- 'Nutrition in Emergencies'
Scholarships are available for the short course 'Nutrition in Emergencies', which will run from 1-5 September 2008.
Amount: Full tuition fee waiver, accommodation, living expenses and flights to and from London.
Eligibility: You must be from a developing country.
Criteria: Financial need and to be employed in the relevant sector in a country prone to disaster.
Deadline: 15 August 2008.

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