Berkeley Prize in Print
The Clean Street Paradox
Thomas-Bernard Kenniff
(ARCHITECTURAL RESEARCH QUARTERLY, Vol. 6, No. 2: January, 2003)
Thomas-Bernard Kenniff is the 2002 BERKELEY PRIZE Essay Competition winner. His winning essay with subsequently added illustrations was accepted for publication in Architectural Research Quarterly (ARQ), published by the Cambridge Univeristy Press. In the words of the Press, "ARQ aims to act as an international forum for practitioners and academics by publishing cutting-edge work covering all aspects of architectural endeavour. Generously illustrated throughout, Architectural Research Quarterly is edited with busy practitioners and academics in mind. Contents include building design, urbanism, history, theory, environmental design, construction, materials, information technology, and practice. Reviews of significant buildings are published at a length and in a detail matched today by few other architectural journals."
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The Berkeley Prize: Those Who Make it Work
Benjamin Clavan and Raymond Lifchez
Now in its ninth year, the international Berkeley Prize for Undergraduate Design Excellence promotes and explores the social art of architecture. Open to undergraduate architecture majors (or teams of students in allied studies led by architecture students), the prize annually consists of two parts: a highly structured essay competition based on a given question, and a more open-ended competition for a travel fellowship for semifinalists in the essay competition.
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Competing to Learn: The Berkeley Prize and the Social Art of Architecture
Raymond Lifchez and Benjamin Clavan
(PLACES, Spring 2005)
How do undergraduate architecture students today perceive the role of the architect in dealing with the issue of providing shelter for the displaced and disenfranchised? This is the question put to students throughout the world in the 2004 International Berkeley Prize for Undergraduate Design Excellence Essay Competition. The responses are wide-ranging, but when viewed as a whole put into focus the pressing need and desire for a new effort to integrate the teaching of the social art of architecture into design curricula. In this article, the authors discuss the history of the Berkeley Prize, the role of the competition to both teach and inform, and most importantly, the specific subject of shelter as a social question as seen through the eyes and words of the student competitors.
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