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Winning Essays

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

First Prize

Sara Navrady and Erica Moore, University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada; "The Oput Centre: From the Tree of Reconciliation to the Architecture of Healing"
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Second Prize

Matthew Clarke, University of Kentucky, Lexington, USA; "Re-presenting Public Housing: creating community in the East-End"
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Third Prize

Talha Khwaja, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, USA; "the promised land"
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Fourth Prize

Budoor Bukhari, American University of Sharjah, United Arab Emirates; "Collective Deliberation: Rethinking the Role of the Architect"
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