The Canada Council for the Arts has named Samantha Eby, a graduate from the Daniels Faculty’s Master of Architecture program in 2019, as the recipient of the 2020 Prix de Rome in Architecture for Emerging Practitioners.

The prestigious $34,000 prize is awarded annually to a recent architecture graduate who has demonstrated potential in contemporary architectural design. With this 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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Eby currently works as a designer at Batay-Csorba Architects. She holds a master?s degree in architecture from the University of Toronto and a bachelor?s degree in architectural studies from the University of Waterloo. During her studies, she received several awards, including the Howarth-Wright Fellowship, the Toronto Society of Architects Scholarship for innovative approach to city building and urban form and the AIA Henry Adams Medal.
The CCA states that Eby is interested in exploring opportunities for alternative forms of housing that challenge the current practices of financing, communal living and site development. Post-pandemic, she is looking forward to travelling to research and document housing projects and organizations that utilize unconventional development models for multi-unit, collective housing.

According to the Daniels Faculty, Eby says this fully funded travel opportunity ...