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Winning Essays

Winners of the Eleventh Annual Berkeley Prize Essay Competition are announced today by Professor Raymond Lifchez, Chair of the Berkeley Undergraduate Prize for Architectural Design Excellence. This year there are two First Place winners and two Second Place winners.

First Prize

Neelakshi Joshi, Birla Institute of Technology, MESRA, Ranchi, India; "Banaras- A Continuing Natural, Cultural and Architectural Landscape."
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Sharayah Jimenez, University of Arizona, USA; "Los Recuerdos del Barrio (The Memory of the Barrio)"
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Second Prize

Hajir Alttahir, Manchester School of Architecture, UK; "Mesopotamian Peace Park"
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Tyler Rozicki, Dalhousie University, Canada; "Learning from Canada's Brick Masonry History"
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