Announcing the Prix de Rome in Architecture awards

by sadia_badhon | September 4, 2019 7:00 am

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Neeraj Bhatia, a Canadian architect and urban designer and founder of the Open Workshop[2], has received the Prix de Rome in Architecture – Professional[3] award from the Canada Council for the Arts[4]. The organization also announced several other architectural awards.

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According to CCA, Bhatia’s work resides at the intersection of politics, infrastructure, and urbanism. He is an associate professor at the California College of the Arts[6], where he also co-directs the urbanism research lab, the Urban Works Agency[7].

The Professional Prix de Rome in Architecture is awarded to a young practitioner of architecture or an architectural firm that has completed their first built works and has demonstrated exceptional artistic potential. The recipient receives $50,000 for work program, travel, and public presentation.

The Prix de Rome in Architecture – Emerging Practitioners[8] award is given to Kinan Hewitt, a designer currently working at KPMB Architects[9] in Toronto. This award is given to a recent graduate from a Canadian school who has demonstrated exceptional potential in contemporary architectural design. With the $34,000 prize, the recipient may visit architectural buildings and carry out an internship at an internationally renowned architectural firm anywhere in the world.

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Desiree Valadares is recipient of the J.B.C. Watkins Award: Architecture[11]. Valadares is a landscape architect with degrees from the University of Guelph (MLA) and McGill University (M.Arch II). She is a PhD candidate in the architectural history program at University of California, Berkeley’s (UC Berkeley’s) College of Environmental Design. The $5000 award is offered to a Canadian professional architect wishing to pursue postgraduate studies outside the country.

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