The Fellowship, awarded yearly, invitations architects and design professionals from Aotearoa to discover how structure will help handle considered one of at the moment’s most urgent human rights – housing – and for the annual winner to embark on a self-directed analysis undertaking supported with a grant of $20,000.
The main target of the Fellowship recognises F. Gordon Wilson’s historic function as a design champion for State Housing in New Zealand over his intensive profession. Wilson led the creation of this nation’s progressive State Housing programme, which included hundreds of single, duplex and multi-unit homes, in addition to a small vary of internationally recognised modernist residence buildings.
Born in Perth, Australia, the famend architect’s profession right here in Aotearoa included positions as Chief Architect of the Division of Housing Development (1936–1943), Chief Architect of the Housing Division of the Public Works Division (1943–1952), Assistant Authorities Architect (1948–1952) and Authorities Architect (1952–1959).
The 2023 inaugural Fellowship was awarded to Third Studio’s Mitra Homolja and Ellie Tuckey, to analyze how public housing can proactively adapt to the impacts of local weather change. Their analysis will end in a case research for present public housing in considered one of Aotearoa’s most at-risk local weather areas, Te Awa Kairangi ki Tai (Decrease Hutt).
The 2024 jury members for the Fellowship are Dr Kay Saville-Smith, Chief Science Advisor for the Ministry of Housing and City Growth (HUD) and Analysis Director, Centre for Analysis, Analysis and Social Evaluation; Marko den Breems, Director of Structure, Kāinga Ora; Lee Beattie, city planner and affiliate professor at Waipapa Taumata Rau College of Auckland; Judith Taylor, instant Previous President, Te Kāhui Whaihanga New Zealand Institute of Architects; and Julia Mandell, architect and granddaughter of F. Gordon Wilson.
Functions for the Fellowship must be made by Monday 19 August, 2024. The recipient or recipients shall be introduced on the New Zealand Structure Awards on Friday 22 November.
Entries for the Fellowship might be emailed to [email protected]
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