The Hart Howerton Travel Fellowship Program is an educational initiative to fund a select number of fellowship positions for students at design schools. Each summer, the fellowship allows the firm to offer internships in their New York or San Francisco offices to students in planning, architecture, landscape architecture, or interior design. The fellowship also provides funded travel for research on a topic the Fellow selects.

Submission Process: Submit all required materials directly through the website application. 

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The purpose of the John Belle Travel 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.

Submission Process: Submission requirements packet will be emailed directly to graduate architecture students. The AAP Competitions Committee will select a maximum of four (4) submissions to nominate for external review. Note the following deadline schedule:

January 31, 2024, 12 p.m.: Submit all required materials as outlined in the fellowship info packet via Airtable. Note: incomplete or incorrectly formatted materials will not be considered.

February 2, 2024: Applicants will be notified if their submission will be nominated, or if it should be revised and resubmitted with recommended changes. Nominations will be reviewed by the Department Chair.

 February 4, 2024, 12 p.m.: Submit revised materials (if applicable) via Airtable with the suffix "V2" on all files.

February 5, 2024: External deadline. Competitions Committee to submit nominated proposals.

Spring 2024: Announcement of award.

Summer 2024: Travel and research period.

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The 25-day intensive studio challenges participants to think and design critically. Residents enjoy theoretical and experimental freedom as they design a site-specific project unique to their program. The program includes design critiques, pin-ups, lectures, and conversations with invited professionals.

This year, the program will take place virtually July 5–26, 2024. Participants will be offered a $1,000 travel stipend to visit the grounds in Rhinebeck, NY, from July 29 to August 2, 2024, including field trips throughout the Hudson Valley to destinations of acclaimed architectural and artistic interest.

Submission Process: Submit all required materials directly through the website application.

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The RAMSA Fellowship is a prize awarded annually by Robert A.M. Stern Architects for travel and research. The fellowship seeks to promote investigations into the perpetuation of tradition through invention — key to the firm's work — and is given to an individual who has proven insight and interest in the profession and its future, as well as the ability to carry forth in-depth research.

Submission Process: Submit all required materials directly through the website application.

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The goal of the award is to allow students to broaden their education through a summer of travel and exploration before their final year at school. Recipients are awarded cash prizes to fund summer research on far-reaching topics that push the boundaries of critical thinking and architectural design, with winners determined by a jury of KPF Principals and industry leaders.

Submission Process: The AAP Competitions Committee will select a maximum of two (2) submissions to nominate for external review. Note the following deadline schedule:

March 22, 2024: Submit all required materials as outlined in the fellowship info packet via Airtable. Note: incomplete or incorrectly formatted materials will not be considered.

March 29, 2024: Applicants will be notified if their submission will be nominated, or if it should be revised and resubmitted with recommended changes. Nominations will be reviewed by the Department Chair.

April 3, 2024: Submit revised materials (if applicable) via Airtable with the suffix "V2" on all files.

April 8, 2024: External deadline. Competitions Committee to submit nominated proposals.

April 2024: Announcement of award.

Summer 2024: Travel and research period.

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The RIBA Norman Foster Travelling Scholarship offers one scholarship to a student of architecture to support international research on a topic and at locations of their choice. The topic of the research should relate to the sustainable survival of cities 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.

Submission Process: The AAP Competitions Committee will select a maximum of one (1) submission to nominate for external review. Review the "Guidance Notes" on the fellowship website. Note the following deadline schedule:

May 3, 2024: Submit all required materials as outlined in the fellowship info packet via Airtable. Note: incomplete or incorrectly formatted materials will not be considered.

May 10, 2024: Applicants will be notified if their submission will be nominated, or if it should be revised and resubmitted with recommended changes. Nominations will be reviewed by the Department Chair.

 May 14, 2024: Submit revised materials (if applicable) via Airtable with the suffix "V2" on all files.

May 16, 2024: External deadline. The applicant will upload material directly to the fellowship website.

June 2024: Announcement of award.

July–October 204: Travel and research period.

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The fellowship's purpose is to supplement the professional training — by foreign travel or in other ways — of those who could not otherwise afford it. The income of the fund may be awarded to one or more candidates. Award amounts will vary widely depending on the scope of the project proposed and the amount of support requested. Complete or partial funding may be awarded at the discretion of the committee.

Submission Process: Submit all materials via the portal on the department website. Note the following deadlines:

April 12, 2024, 12 p.m.: Deadline for receipt of completed applications.

May 2024: Applicants to be notified if awarded.

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The department offers a limited number of thesis research and travel funds to be used the summer before the thesis. These funds are typically limited in amount. Should these funds be available, the application will be sent to M.Arch. students in April 2024.

Submission Process: Pending availability, the M.Arch. Committee will award funding. Please note the following deadline schedule:

May 13, 2024: Submit all required materials as outlined in the fellowship info packet via Airtable. Note: incomplete or incorrectly formatted materials will not be considered.

May 2024: M.Arch. Committee to notify applicants if their submission will be awarded funding.

Summer 2024: Travel and research period.