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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![](/hp_images/2015/1.jpg) Meeting Room, Amalgamated Dwellings, New York City, USASpringsteen and Goldhammer, 1929
![](/hp_images/2015/2.jpg) Boundary Street Estate Workshops, London, UK, London County Council, 1899
![](/hp_images/2015/3.jpg) Vending stalls, Hismen Hin-Nu Terrace, Oakland, CA, USA, Pyatok Architects, 1995
![](/hp_images/2015/4.jpg) Workshops, Perseigne Housing Estate, Alençon, France, Lucien Kroll, 1979
![](/hp_images/2015/5.jpg) BDD Chawls, Worli, India, Bombay Development Department, 1920
![](/hp_images/2015/6.png) Campus for Magic Bus, Panvel, India, 2007, RMA Architects
![](/hp_images/2015/7.jpg) Cantagallo, Peru
![](/hp_images/2015/8.jpg) Casa do Ataide, Paraisopolos, Sao Paolo, Brazil, URBZ Brazil, 2013
![](/hp_images/2015/9.jpg) Casa do Ataide, Paraisopolos, Sao Paolo, Brazil, URBZ Brazil, 2013
![](/hp_images/2015/10.jpg) Casa Familiar, San Ysidro, Califonia, USA, Estudio Teddy Cruz, Ongoing
![](/hp_images/2015/11.png) Community Toilets for SPARC, Mumbai, India, RMA Architects, Ongoing
![](/hp_images/2015/12.png) The Construction of Low-cost Community Centres. New Delhi, 1978.
![](/hp_images/2015/13.jpg) Dolma Ling Nunnery and Institute, Sidhpur, Dharmasala, India, MN Ashish Ganju, 1998
![](/hp_images/2015/14.jpg) Fez River Project, City of Fez, Morocco, Aziza Chaouni Projects, 2012
![](/hp_images/2015/15.png) Jungle Gym, Shivagi Nagar, India, Aditya Vipparthi and URBZ, 2014
![](/hp_images/2015/16.jpg) KPSP, Kibera, Kenya, Koukuey Design Initiative, Ongoing
![](/hp_images/2015/17.jpg) Lima, Peru
![](/hp_images/2015/18.jpg) Livonia Commons, Brooklyn, NY, Urban Quotient, 2011
![](/hp_images/2015/19.jpg) Manila, Philippines
![](/hp_images/2015/20.png) Metrocables of Medillin, Medillin, Colombia, Edison Escobar and María Patricia Bustamante, 2004
![](/hp_images/2015/21.png) Metrocables of Medillin, Medillin, Colombia, Edison Escobar and María Patricia Bustamante, 2004
![](/hp_images/2015/22.png) Mother and Child Care Centre, Dakshin Habal Village / Bagman Village, West Bengal, New Delhi, MN Ashish Ganju, 1979.
![](/hp_images/2015/23.jpg) Nairobi, Kenya
![](/hp_images/2015/24.jpg) Solar Initiative, Various Locations, Mexico, BaSiC Initiative 2003-2010
![](/hp_images/2015/25.jpg) Sudhir House, Saki Naka, Mumbai, India, URBZ, 2013
![](/hp_images/2015/26.jpg) Technical Facilitation of Indira Awas Yojana In Gujarat, India, Hunnarshala Foundation, 2011
![](/hp_images/2015/27.jpg) Bangkok, Thailand
![](/hp_images/2015/28.jpg) Manufactured Sites: Emergency Housing, Estudio Teddy Cruz
![](/hp_images/2015/29.jpg) Low Cost Housing Programme, Karachi, Pakistan, Orangi Pilot Project, 1987
![](/hp_images/2015/30.jpg) Floods: Relief And Rehabilitation, Sindh, Pakistan, Orangi Pilot Project, 2011
![](/hp_images/2015/31.jpg) Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
![](/hp_images/2015/32.jpg) Emma Cosio and her children are laying out the foundations of their house. Mexicali, Mexico, Christopher Alexander
![](/hp_images/2015/33.jpg) Emma Cosio’s completed house in 1976. Mexicali, Mexico, Christopher Alexander
![](/hp_images/2015/34.jpg) Jose Tapia’s house in 1976. Mexicali, Mexico, Christopher Alexander
![](/hp_images/2015/35.jpg) Jose Tapia’s house in 1984. Mexicali, Mexico, Christopher Alexander
![](/hp_images/2015/36.jpg) Mrs. Rodriguez in front of her home in 1984. Mexicali, Mexico, Christopher Alexander
![](/hp_images/2015/37.jpg) The homes the five families built for themselves in 1976. Mexicali, Mexico, Christopher Alexander
![](/hp_images/2015/38.jpg) Inside the Tapia’s home that they built with the help of students, 1976.
![](/hp_images/2015/39.jpg) Tow Build - 1st workshop - Nansan Town Council Official brief 4th Architecture Students on the Planning & Housing challenges in Nabweru
![](/hp_images/2015/40.jpg) Local market in the heart of Kampala
![](/hp_images/2015/41.jpg) Local Resource and skills - use of sheet and timber to make house panel
![](/hp_images/2015/42.jpg) View from Mutungo of the Ourskirts of Kampala
![](/hp_images/2015/43.jpg) Participation - children sketching their dream house
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