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Winning Essays

Winners of the Fifteenth Annual BERKELEY PRIZE Essay Competition are announced by Professor Raymond Lifchez, Chair of the Berkeley Undergraduate Prize for Architectural Design Excellence. This year there is one First Prize, one Second Prize and two Third Prize Winners. 

First Prize

Sophia Bannert, University of Lincoln, UK: "A Day in the Life of a Wheelchair User:  Navigating Lincoln" (4500USD)

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Second Prize

Faiq Mari, Birzeit University, Palestine: "A Resilent Past and a Promising Future:  Disability in Ramallah" (3500USD)

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Third Prize (tie)

Slavka Gancheva, University of Edinburgh, Bulgaria (home): "Access Denied" (2250USD)

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