Are you a full-time architecture student registered at a Canadian architecture school" You could win a $5,000 scholarship by writing an essay describing the moment when you decided to become an architect!
The Moriyama RAIC Student Scholarships are three scholarships awarded in conjunction with the Moriyama RAIC International Prize. The Moriyama RAIC Student Scholarships program is open to any student registered full-time in a Canadian university architecture program in the 2016-2017 academic year. Three scholarships of CAD $5,000 will be awarded.
The award of the scholarships will be based on individual student submissions in the form of an original essay, not to exceed 1,000 words in length, with illustrations that complement and clarify ideas explored in the text. The essay topic explores the notion of origins and is based on the following question: Please describe the moment?the circumstances, the nature of the event?when you decided to become an architect, or when you knew that your decision to become an architect was the right one. Your ?moment? could be related to an encounter with a single building (like Arthur Erickson?s discovery of Taliesin West in an illustrated article in the August 1946 issue of Fortune Magazine), or with a place (like Le Corbusier?s visit to the Acropolis in 1911). Or it could be related to a series of experiences, discoveries and reflections that eventually led you into architecture.
Submissions will be evaluated on the applicant?s expre...