The Fourteenth Annual Berkeley Undergraduate Prize for Architectual Design Excellence 2012
2012
Berkeley Prize 2012
Architecture
for the Public Good

Lalit Kala Akademi, Panaji, Goa, India

The Ed Roberts Campus, Berkeley, California, USA

Iquique (squatter) housing, Iquique, Chile

Mills Building, South Carolina State Hospital, 1827, South Carolina, USA

Horikawa Canal, Kyoto, Japan

Ekialo Kiona Community Center, 2010, Mfango Island, Kenya

Dalian Preschool, 2009, Dalian, Liaoning Province, People's Republic of China

Butaro Hospital, 2010, Butaro, Burero District, Rwanda

Kitgum Museum for Peace and War Archive, 2010, Kitgum, Uganda

PATH Villas Osage, 2011, City of Inglewood, Los Angeles, California, USA

Kerala Festival Scene, Kerala, India

Plaza Apartments, 2006- San Francisco, California, USA

Henry Street Settlement House , 1895, New York City, New York, USA

Baylor College of Medicine Children's Hospital, 2008, Kampala, Uganda

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Dedication

To those architects and their clients around the world who commit themselves to creating architecture for the public good and to the first major portrait of such projects from the United States showcased in the recently published, The Power of Pro Bono, edited by BERKELEY PRIZE Committee member John Cary.

Illustrations

All of the illustrations on this year's website have also been collected in a single photo essay. Thanks to the many BERKELEY PRIZE Committee Members who submitted these outstanding examples of Architecture for the Public Good from around the world.

The Endowment
Kiryat Tivon Water Tower, Kiryat Tivon, Israel, YOSEF BEN-NAIM, Architect<br>© Robert Ungar
Kiryat Tivon Water Tower, Kiryat Tivon, Israel, YOSEF BEN-NAIM, Architect<br>© Robert Ungar
Architecture is a Social Art

The BERKELEY PRIZE Competition was established in 1998, made possible by a generous gift of JUDITH LEE STRONACH to the Department of Architecture in the College of Environmental Design at the University of California, Berkeley.

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Kiryat Tivon Water Tower, Kiryat Tivon, Israel, YOSEF BEN-NAIM, Architect
© Robert Ungar
2012 Essay Prize Competition
Cuncolim Market, 2011, Cuncolim, Goa, India DEAN D'CRUZ, Architect<br>© Himanshu Burte
Kiryat Tivon Water Tower, Kiryat Tivon, Israel, YOSEF BEN-NAIM, Architect<br>© Robert Ungar

Each year, the PRIZE Committee selects a topic and poses a Question based on that topic. Full-time students enrolled in any undergraduate architecture degree program or majoring in architecture throughout the world are invited to submit a 500-word Essay Proposal responding to the Question.

2012 Essay Prize Competition »
Cuncolim Market, 2011, Cuncolim, Goa, India DEAN D'CRUZ, Architect
© Himanshu Burte
2012 Fellowship Competitions
Seattle Central Library, 2004, Seattle, WA, USA, REM KOOLHAAS OMA, Architect<br>© Brian Gassman
Kiryat Tivon Water Tower, Kiryat Tivon, Israel, YOSEF BEN-NAIM, Architect<br>© Robert Ungar

Hands-on research experiences in foreign locales, and opportunities to mount complementary local competitions are given to students who present the best written essays describing what role the architect plays in developing the social art of architecture.

2012 Fellowship Competions »
Seattle Central Library, 2004, Seattle, WA, USA, REM KOOLHAAS OMA, Architect
© Brian Gassman

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Berkeley Prize News

  • 12/27/2011   (read more...)

    Read 2011 Architectural Design Fellow Preeti Talwai's first report!

  • 12/13/2011   (read more...)

    2012 BERKELEY PRIZE Essay Competition Semifinalists are announced!  Click here to see results.

  • 12/12/2011

    The BERKELEY PRIZE proudly welcomes three new Committee Members: Sandy Hirshen, Cynthia Whitehead, and Friedner Wittman.

  • 11/14/2011   (read more...)
    The BERKELEY PRIZE proudly welcomes three new Committee Members: Jan Wampler, Rachel Kallus, and Jason Miller.
  • 10/30/2011   (read more...)

    Read new report from 2011 Travel Fellow Diana Mihai!

  • 10/24/2011   (read more...)

    "Tap City", the local New York City design competition by BERKELEY PRIZE 2011 Architectural Design Fellow, Joseph Audeh, is launched.

Berkeley Prize Calendar

  • February 1, 2012
    (Stage Two) Essay Semifinalists' 2,500-word essays due.
  • February 8, 2012
    Launch of Fellowship Competitions for Essay Semifinalists.

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