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The John K. Branner Traveling Fellowship is a $25,000–35,000 prize for international travel and research, awarded annually to up to six Master of Architecture (M.Arch.) students in the College of Environmental Design. The 12-month fellowship, which starts in December, is to be used before or during the students' final year in the M.Arch. program. Students must explore a particular architectural question or issue that may later be expanded as a thesis. France and Italy must be included in the travel itinerary.
2012-13 Fellowships
To apply for the next Branner Traveling Fellowship, students must first fill out the Branner eligibility screening form and return it to the Architecture Graduate Office in 370 Wurster Hall in April 2012 (actual date to be announced). Applicant eligibility will be reviewed by the prize committee prior to the entry submission date.
Once eligibility has been established, the deadline for proposal submissions is in August 2012 (actual date to be announced). Full instructions can be found in the Branner information document. Please note that the portfolio must be anonymous, and it must comply with Architecture Department portfolio rules.
Current Fellows
Information on the 2011-12 Branner winners is forthcoming.
2010-11 Fellows
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Bryan Allen
Post_Industrial_Latent_Space
postindustriallatentspace.blogspot.com/
Post Industrial Latent Spaces exhibit architectural dreams and fears, at once inspiring architecture’s promise and aware of its ultimate entropy. Here spatial distinctions between solid/void, building/landscape, and inside/outside become ambiguous yet paradoxically present.
Bryan is an Option 2 M.Arch. student. His research focuses on exploring Post Industrial Latent Spaces through an Urbex methodology with a specific interest in their embedded contextual connection, ecological opportunity, palimpsest qualities, and spatial potential. |
Justin Short
Source: Material Practice and Provenance
materialprovenance.org/
Justin is an Option 3 M.Arch. student. His proposal examines the physical implications — collateral architecture, urbanism, and infrastructure — of varied postures in material practice. |
2009-10 Fellows
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Adriana Navarro-Sertich
Favela Chic: The Formal Informal
Favela Chic Blog
Adriana's
research focuses on the manner through which professionals and
governments are currently addressing informality and the "favela."
Adriana
is a dual-degree M.Arch./MCP student. Her research focuses on the
manner through which professionals and governments are currently
addressing informality and the "favela." |
Eleanor Pries
Drip|Dry: Systems that Seep
Drip|Dry Blog
What
if a building could catch, condense, filter, and redistribute fogdrip?
Design responses to water issues should not be relegated to xeriscaping
or bioswales. Architecture can bring water back into the building. The
city should seep. Buildings could be the pores.
Eleanor's
research explores buildings and systems that catch, convey, store, and
filter water through basic hydrological principles. These systems also
have direct cultural or social significance, through bathing, washing,
ritual, and agriculture.
Eleanor is an Option 3 M.Arch. student. |
Melissa Smith
Aging Modernism
Aging Modernism Blog
The implications of modernism’s large scale interventions & the large-scale effects of user adaptation.
Melissa is a dual-degree M.Arch./M.C.P. student. |
2008-09 Fellows
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Nicolette Mastrangelo
The Untested City
Unprecedented urbanism and the performance of new public space
Untested City Blog
Nicolette is a dual-degree M.Arch./M.C.P. student. She is interested in the performance of public space in new-city contexts. |
Taylor Medlin
RE:mote...Controlled
Building in Areas of Isolation
RE:mote Blog
Taylor is a second-year M.Arch. Option 2 student. His proposal seeks to investigate construction techniques used in sites of remote location. |
Nicolas Sowers
Military Atmospheres
Spaces of occupation, resistance, negotiation, and reclamation
Soundscrapers Blog
Nicolas is in his second year of the M.Arch. Option 2 program. His proposal is about
the interface between military and civilian spaces. |
2007-08 Fellows
Each of the three 2007-08 Branner winners received $35,000 for their fellowships.
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Natalia Echeverri
M.Arch./M.C.P.
NEOLIBERAL Fragments
Echeverri Travel Blog
Natalia is a joint M.Arch./ M.C.P. student at CED exploring large theories and frameworks, both historical and contemporary. |
Luke Perry
M.Arch.
Incremental Housing
Perry Travel Blog
Luke is in his second year of the M.Arch. program. He became involved in issues of community and service while studying architecture and industrial design as an undergraduate. |
Asa Prentice
M.Arch.
venue: OLYMPICS
Prentice Travel Blog
Asa
will enter his second year of the Option 2 M.Arch. program. His
proposal focused on using the Olympic venue as a strategy to understand
the city. |
2007 Fellows
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Andrew Ballard
Option 3 M.Arch.
Infrastructure as Instrument: design in the larger construct
Ballard Proposal [pdf]
Ballard Travel Blog
Andrew's
study explored the capacity for urban systems — infrastructures,
armatures, nodes, and networks — to engender the public and organize the
private. |
Yuki Bowman
Option 3 M.Arch.
the ACT of route: reading and recording the world city in motion
Bowman Proposal [pdf]
Bowman Travel Blog
Yuki's
work examined human movement systems in global cities. Upon returning,
she focused her thesis on reconsidering the space of the commute. |
Ivan Valin
M.Arch./M.L.A.
Constructed Territories: Finding Landscape Urbanism
Valin Proposal [pdf]
Valin Website
Valin Travel Blog
Ivan's fellowship studied eight sites along urban water edges. |
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