Winning Essays
Winners of the Seventeenth Annual BERKELEY PRIZE Essay Competition are announced by Professor Raymond Lifchez, Chair of the Berkeley Undergraduate Prize for Architectural Design Excellence. This year there is one First Prize, one Second Prize, two Third Prize, and one Fourth Prize Winners.
First Prize
Tarun Bhasin & Vineetha Nalla, School Of Planning And Architecture, Bhopal, India: "Imagine There are No Slums : Mainstreaming an Image with Dignity" (5000USD - 2500 relinquished by Mr. Bhasin to accept Travel Fellowship)
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Second Prize
Benard Acellam, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda: "Learning on the Hillside: Confronting Poverty with Education" (4000USD)
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Third Prize (tie)
Meghna Mohandas, School of Planning and Architecture, Bhopal, India: "Vermilion of Hope.“ (3250USD)
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Third Prize (tie)
Chandana Rajanna & Hanan Qureshi, IIT Roorkee, Roorkee, India: "Incremental Changes Bring Immense Happiness to the Urban Poor." (3250USD)
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Fourth Prize
Eman Zied, Arab Academy for Science Technology and Maritime Transport, Cairo, Egypt: "Parallel Practice: Bottom-Up Participatory Design in Impoverished Communities in Egypt" (2000USD)
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Read the full 2015 press release here.
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 Meeting Room, Amalgamated Dwellings, New York City, USASpringsteen and Goldhammer, 1929  Boundary Street Estate Workshops, London, UK, London County Council, 1899  Vending stalls, Hismen Hin-Nu Terrace, Oakland, CA, USA, Pyatok Architects, 1995  Workshops, Perseigne Housing Estate, Alençon, France, Lucien Kroll, 1979  BDD Chawls, Worli, India, Bombay Development Department, 1920  Campus for Magic Bus, Panvel, India, 2007, RMA Architects  Cantagallo, Peru  Casa do Ataide, Paraisopolos, Sao Paolo, Brazil, URBZ Brazil, 2013  Casa do Ataide, Paraisopolos, Sao Paolo, Brazil, URBZ Brazil, 2013  Casa Familiar, San Ysidro, Califonia, USA, Estudio Teddy Cruz, Ongoing  Community Toilets for SPARC, Mumbai, India, RMA Architects, Ongoing  The Construction of Low-cost Community Centres. New Delhi, 1978.  Dolma Ling Nunnery and Institute, Sidhpur, Dharmasala, India, MN Ashish Ganju, 1998  Fez River Project, City of Fez, Morocco, Aziza Chaouni Projects, 2012  Jungle Gym, Shivagi Nagar, India, Aditya Vipparthi and URBZ, 2014  KPSP, Kibera, Kenya, Koukuey Design Initiative, Ongoing  Lima, Peru  Livonia Commons, Brooklyn, NY, Urban Quotient, 2011  Manila, Philippines  Metrocables of Medillin, Medillin, Colombia, Edison Escobar and María Patricia Bustamante, 2004  Metrocables of Medillin, Medillin, Colombia, Edison Escobar and María Patricia Bustamante, 2004  Mother and Child Care Centre, Dakshin Habal Village / Bagman Village, West Bengal, New Delhi, MN Ashish Ganju, 1979.  Nairobi, Kenya  Solar Initiative, Various Locations, Mexico, BaSiC Initiative 2003-2010  Sudhir House, Saki Naka, Mumbai, India, URBZ, 2013  Technical Facilitation of Indira Awas Yojana In Gujarat, India, Hunnarshala Foundation, 2011  Bangkok, Thailand  Manufactured Sites: Emergency Housing, Estudio Teddy Cruz  Low Cost Housing Programme, Karachi, Pakistan, Orangi Pilot Project, 1987  Floods: Relief And Rehabilitation, Sindh, Pakistan, Orangi Pilot Project, 2011  Dar es Salaam, Tanzania  Emma Cosio and her children are laying out the foundations of their house. Mexicali, Mexico, Christopher Alexander  Emma Cosio’s completed house in 1976. Mexicali, Mexico, Christopher Alexander  Jose Tapia’s house in 1976. Mexicali, Mexico, Christopher Alexander  Jose Tapia’s house in 1984. Mexicali, Mexico, Christopher Alexander  Mrs. Rodriguez in front of her home in 1984. Mexicali, Mexico, Christopher Alexander  The homes the five families built for themselves in 1976. Mexicali, Mexico, Christopher Alexander  Inside the Tapia’s home that they built with the help of students, 1976.  Tow Build - 1st workshop - Nansan Town Council Official brief 4th Architecture Students on the Planning & Housing challenges in Nabweru  Local market in the heart of Kampala  Local Resource and skills - use of sheet and timber to make house panel  View from Mutungo of the Ourskirts of Kampala  Participation - children sketching their dream house
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