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Winning Essays

Winners of the Tenth Annual Berkeley Prize Essay Competition are announced today by Professor Raymond Lifchez, Chair of the Berkeley Undergraduate Prize for Architectural Design Excellence.

First Prize

Sonya Redman, University of New South Wales, Australia; "Shaping identity and ‘place’ in Australian Indigenous housing."
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Second Prize

Nazneen Saifuddin, American University of Sharjah, Kuwait; "The Abolition of Congested Urbanism - A Task or a Moral Obligation?"
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Petrina Yeap, National University of Singapore, Singapore; "Good Vintage - Sustainable Architecture for an Aging Society"
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