The Royal Architectural Institute of Canada (RAIC) and the RAIC Foundation are pleased to announce the three winners of the 2019 RAIC International Prize Scholarships.
They are:
- Laure Nolte, Dalhousie University
- Lucie Palombi, University of Montréal
- Odudu Umoessien, University of Manitoba
Each student has won a $5,000 scholarship for writing an essay describing the moment they decided to become an architect or knew their decision to become an architect was the right one.
The RAIC International Prize Scholarships are presented in conjunction with the $100,000 RAIC International Prize. The winner of the RAIC International Prize, to be selected from a shortlist of three projects from Senegal, Peru, and Chile, will be announced at the RAIC International Prize Gala on October 25 in Toronto, ON. The scholarship winners will receive their awards at the same event.
The RAIC received 93 eligible entries in both English and French from students enrolled in Canada’s 11 accredited schools of architecture as well as students at the RAIC Centre for Architecture at Athabasca University and the RAIC Syllabus Program.
“These essays describe moments when their authors understood the world through architecture and formed their own wish to be an architect,” says RAIC President Michael Cox, FRAIC. “Gathering with people, travelling, reading – all are enriched by the places where they occur. In very different ways, the essays evoke the value given by the built world to our lives, and the wish of architects to contribute.”
Amal Dirie will receive a Certificate of High Merit for her essay, on the temporary dwellings built by nomadic people in Somalia.
The 2019 jury members are:
- Elsa Lam, FRAIC, editor of Canadian Architect magazine;
- Anne Bordeleau, MRAIC, director, School of Architecture, University of Waterloo;
- Douglas MacLeod, FRAIC, chair, RAIC Centre for Architecture, Athabasca University;
- André Perrotte, FIRAC, partner, Saucier + Perrotte Architectes;
- Barry Sampson, FRAIC, principal, Baird Sampson Neuert Architects;
- David Covo, FRAIC, associate professor, Peter Guo-hua Fu School of Architecture, McGill University.
