2024 Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) Norman Foster Travelling Scholarship

Deadline: June 30, 2024

Scholarships

Fellowship & Research

Location(s)

  • United Kingdom
  • Worldwide

Overview

The RIBA Norman Foster Travelling Scholarship offers one scholarship of £7,000 to a student of architecture to support international research on a topic and at locations of their choice.

The call for applications for the 2024 scholarship will be published here next spring.

Details

"As a student, I won a prize that allowed me to spend a summer travelling through Europe and to study first-hand buildings and cities that I knew only from the pages of books. It was a revelation – liberating and exhilarating in so many ways.

Today, it is the privilege of the Norman Foster Foundation to support the RIBA Norman Foster Travelling Scholarship, which I hope will have a lasting legacy – offering the chance for discovery and the inspiration for exciting new work – for generations to come."
Lord Foster

The topic of the research should, however, relate to the sustainable survival of our cities and towns and fall under one of the following themes:

  • learning from the past to inform the future
  • the future of society
  • density of settlements
  • use of resources
  • quality of urban life
  • transport

How to apply

The deadline for applications is 3pm (BST) Friday 30 June 2024. Applications will not be accepted after this time.

Contact

If you have any questions about this scholarship or the application process, please contact Gillian Harrison (Gillian.Harrison@riba.org).

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Eligibility

Candidates should be from:


Description of Ideal Candidate

Eligibility criteria

To be eligible to apply, students must be enrolled in, and have successfully completed at least the first year of a professional qualification in architecture from a school invited by the RIBA.

Applications will be considered from individual students only.

Each invited school can submit one application only for the scholarship from one of its current students, and each school chooses its own method of selecting its student.

Selection criteria

Submissions will be judged by a panel comprising:

  • Lord Foster
  • Simon Allford, RIBA President
  • one member of staff from the Norman Foster Foundation
  • one judge invited by the Norman Foster Foundation
  • one judge invited by the President of the RIBA

The judges will seek to award a student who demonstrates the potential for outstanding achievement and original thinking on issues relating to the survival and the future of our cities and towns.

The successful applicant will be notified after the judging in June 2024, and the travel should take place between July and October 2024. Upon the completion of the travel, the student will be invited to present their research at the Norman Foster Foundation.


Dates

Deadline: June 30, 2024


Cost/funding for participants

One scholarship of £7,000.

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