The John Belle Travel Fellowship is a $10,000 annual award by the Beyer Blinder Belle Foundation in honor of John Belle, FAIA, RIBA, Hon. PhD, a founding partner of Beyer Blinder Belle Architects & Planners. John devoted his career to the public realm — the planning, design, restoration and adaptive reuse of public buildings and urban centers. The purpose of the Fellowship is to expand students' understanding of the public realm in existing cities through travel and research, and how the knowledge gained might be applied to contemporary urban needs and design challenges.
ELIGIBILITY
Application is open to students of any nationality in their penultimate year of a Masters or PhD degree program in Architecture, Historic Preservation and/or Urban Design at the following schools in the US, UK and Canada:
USA Carnegie Mellon University • Catholic University of America • Columbia University • Cornell University • Georgia Institute of Technology • Harvard University • Massachusetts Institute of Technology • Pratt Institute • Princeton University • Rice University • Rhode Island School of Design • State University of New York at Buffalo • Syracuse University • The City College of New York • University of California, Berkeley • University of California, Los Angeles • University of Maryland • University of Miami • University of Michigan • University of Pennsylvania • University of Texas at Austin • University of Virginia • Virginia Tech • Yale University
UK Architectural Association • Manchester School of Architecture • University College London (The Bartlett) • University of Bath • University of Cambridge • University of Cardiff
CANADA McGill University • University of British Columbia • University of Toronto
SCHEDULE
January 22, 2018 Deadline for Fellowship Applications
March 21, 2018 Announcement of Award Summer 2018 Travel & Research Period
October 15, 2018 Deadline for Submission of Final Report
JURY
A jury to review submissions will be led by architectural, urban design and historic preservation professionals of the Beyer Blinder Belle Foundation, along with invited members of the design profession.
John Belle, a founding partner of Beyer Blinder Belle, was dedicated to social and cultural responsibility through architecture. This viewpoint was solidified early on for John as an architectural student in London while working on a project in the coal mines of Wales. There, John made the connection between the fabric of a community and the impact that an architect could have on its preservation and growth, as well as the day-to-day lives of people.
Beyer Blinder Belle was founded in 1968 in the wake of the urban renewal movement in the United States, when the social fabric of cities, communities, and buildings was compromised by the prevailing attitudes about planning and architecture. The firm pioneered and defined a different approach to the design of the built environment that focused on architecture empowering people—their interaction with each other on streets and in neighborhoods, their pleasure in moving through the city, and their connections to the surrounding physical fabric.
The Beyer Blinder Belle Foundation seeks to further this mission outside its professional services practice through annual grants, lectures, symposiums, and publications.
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