Valuing the Sacred
Essay Prize Question
What is a sacred space? Historically, certain buildings have served as sacred places for meditation, to celebrate a religious ritual, or simply to take refuge from the pressures of every day life. Select a place, location, or setting in your community or your local environment that you personally believe to be sacred, but that has as yet not been widely accepted as important in this way. Tell us: Why it is sacred. What community resources are needed to insure its preservation. What, if any, architectural intervention you believe is appropriate to memorialize its special nature.
Dedication
The 2011 berkeley prize is dedicated to all the BERKELEY PRIZE student participants who explore the importance of the social art of architecture, and to those students below whose responses have most impressed the Readers and Jurors.
Essay Prize Jurors
Andrew Amara
Paul Broches
Clare Cooper Marcus
Nalini Thakur
Essay Prize Winners and Honorable Mentions
First Prize: Holly Simon, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
First Prize: Iina Valkeisenmäki, Aalto University, Espoo, Finland
Second Prize: Rebecca David, Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, Jerusalem, Israel
Second Prize: Davis Owen, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
Travel Fellowship Winners and Destination
Hriday Gami, CEPT University, New Delhi, India for travel to the Wood in Construction and Architecture Program at Aalto Univerisity, Helsinki, Finland.
Milenka Jirasko, Montana State University, Bozeman, Montana, for travel to Amizade Service Learning Program, Oswiecim, Poland.
Diana Mihai, Ion Mincu University of Architecture and Urbanism, Bucharest, Romania for travel to Architects Sans Frontieres-UK in Jammu and Kashmir, India.
Architectural Design Competition Fellows
Joseph Audeh, New York University, New York, USA.
Preeti Talwai, University of California, Berkeley, California, USA.
Related Links
2011 Prize Website
2011 Poster
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Ta Phrom Temple, Angkor, Cambodia ©Benjamin Clavan
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