The 2023 Essay Prize Competition
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Essay Prize Competition
Each year, the PRIZE Committee selects a topic critical to the investigation of the social art of architecture and poses a Question based on that topic. Full-time undergraduate students in an architecture degree program or majoring in architecture in accredited schools of architecture throughout the world, including Diploma in Architecture students, may submit a 500-word essay proposal responding to the Question. Entries by teams of two students are encouraged and the second team member can be an undergraduate studying in fields related to architecture.
2021
Reva Saksena & Mallika Sarabhai
School of Planning and Architecture, Bhopal, India
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2021
Zoe Hammond
Montana State University, Bozeman, U.S.A.
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2021
Gunraagh Singh Talwar
School of Planning and Architecture, Bhopal, India
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2021
Kiera Townsend
Drexel University, Philadelphia, U.S.A.
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2021
Winta Assefa
Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia
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2021
Saavi Natekar & Ayesha de Sousa
Goa College of Architecture, Panji, India
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2021
Jacob Schlüssel & Ting-Chun Yang
RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany
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2021
Fathimath Ema Ziya
University of Bath, United Kingdom
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2021
Nicole Oliveira
Associação Escola da Cidade, São Paulo, Brazil
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2020
Rhiddhit Paul & Abhradeep Chakraborty
School of Planning & Architecture, India
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2020
Poonam Parikh & Khushali Haji
C.E.P.T. University, Ahmedabad, India
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2020
Michael Tsang & Elisa Ynaraja Rodriguez
University of Bath, Bath, UK
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2020
Claudio Cabana & Henrike Scholz
University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
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2020
Vladimir Kositsyn & Zhenya Nasledskova
Moscow Architectural Institute, Moscow, Russian Federation
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2020
Elizabeth Mugo & Stephanie Munene
Jomo Kenyatta & Strathmore University, Kenya
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2020
Madhura Vaze & Nabha Joshi
B.K.P.S. College of Architecture & S.P College, Pune, India
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2020
Jingni Wu & Xinxing Chen
Beihang University
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2019
Muskaan Jain and Gurinder Singh
School of Planning and Architecture, Bhopal, India
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2019
Shahreen Semontee and Raquibul Hassan
Dhaka, Bangladesh
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2019
Cullen Sayegh
University of Tennessee, Knoxville, USA
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2019
Chiranjivi Jai Mankoo and Samriddhi Pandey
Jamia Millia Islamia in Delhi, India
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2018
Wandisile Kona
University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa
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2018
Ghina Kanawati
Beirut Arab University, Beirut, Lebanon
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2018
Meriam Soltan
American University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon
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2018
Theodor Reinhardt
Leipzig University of Applied Sciences in Leipzig, Germany
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2018
Raksha VH & Swetha Manivannan
Ramaiah Institute & Oxford School of Arch, Bengaluru, India
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2017
Jan Doroteo
University of Toronto, Toronto Canada
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2017
Hadi Osni
National University of Singapore, Singapore
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2017
Bella Biwer
National University of Singapore, Singapore
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2017
Layton Checketts
University of Utah, Salt Lake City United States
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2016
VishnuPriya Viswanathan
Manipal Unviersity, Karnataka, India
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2016
Zahra Mosaddegh Akrami & Ali Tabatabaei
Tehran University of Art, Keraj, Iran
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2016
Ayushman Kedia
School of Planning and Architecture, Bhopal, India
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2016
Julian Daly & Rebecca Sherouse
UC Berkeley & American University, USA
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2015
Tarun Bhasin & Vineetha Nalla
School of Planning and Architecture, Bhopal, India
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2015
Benard Acellam
Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda
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2015
Meghna Mohandas
School of Planning and Architecture, Bhopal, India
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2015
Chandana Rajanna & Hanan Qureshi
IIT Roorkee, Roorkee, India
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2015
Eman Zied
Arab Academy for Science Technology, Cairo, Egypt
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2014
Tazrin Islam
Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology
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2014
Nipun Prabakar and Sukruti Gupta
School of Planning and Architecture, India
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2014
Michael Philpott
Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada
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2014
Aparna Ramesh
Visvesvaraya National Institute of Technology, India
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2013
Slavka Gancheva
University of Edinburgh, Bulgaria
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2013
Caitlin Copeland
University of Edinburgh, UK
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2012
Loh Kin Kit and Phoaw Yen Shan
National University of Singapore, Singapore
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2012
Bryans Mukasa
Uganda Martyr's University, Kampala, Uganda
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2012
Gauri Mathur
Birla Institute of Technology, Mesra, Ranchi, India
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2012
Emma Survis
University of Arizona, Tuscon, Arizona, USA
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2011
Holly Simon
Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
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2011
Iina Valkeisenmäki
Aalto University, Espoo, Finland
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2011
Rebecca David
Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, Jerusalem, Israel
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2011
Davis Owen
Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
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2010
Ishanie Niyogi
Birla Institute of Technology, Mesra, India
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2010
Tara Gaskin
Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
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2010
Aimee Sunny
University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana, USA
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2009
Neelakshi Joshi
Birla Institute of Technology, Mesra, India
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2009
Sharayah Jimenez
University of Arizona, USA
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2008
Sonya Redman
University of New South Wales, Australia
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2007
Sara Navrady and Erica Moore
University of Waterloo, Canada
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2006
Qurratulain Poonawala
Indus Valley School of Architecture, Pakistan
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2005
Brian Knight
Southern California Institute of Architecture, USA
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2003
Philip Tidwell
Washington University, St. Louis, USA
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2002
Thomas-Bernard Kenniff
University of Waterloo, Canada
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2001
Christopher Holmes
Dalhousie University, Dalhousie, Canada
