Cavin Family Traveling Fellowship
Advancing the Education of Young Architecture Graduates and Emerging Professionals through Foreign Travel-Study
The Cavin Family Traveling Fellowship Fund was established in 2002 by Brooks Cavin, III, AIA, as part of the California Community Foundation.
The initial award of this traveling scholarship in 2007 was established to honor the families and architectural traditions of William Brooks Cavin, Sr. and William Brooks Cavin, Jr., FAIA. For more than a decade, the Cavin family continues to remain involved in the mission of the Fellowship by offering travel-study opportunities to West Coast scholars. The spirit and the design competition format of the Cavin Fellowship shares those of the Rotch Travelling Scholarship in the East Coast and the Rapson Traveling Study Fellowship in the Midwest.
Through this competition and the discussion that is fostered by it among its jury members, the young pracitioners and recent graduates who compete in it, and the universities that they represent, the fellowship continues to nurture design in architecture and to promote a further understanding of resource sustainability in the world.
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Announcements
REGISTRATION DEADLINE FOR 2019 CAVIN FAMILY TRAVELING SCHOLARSHIP: APRIL 4th, 2019
For more than a decade, the Cavin Family Traveling Fellowshup has been awarded to recent architecture graduates to give them the opportunity to independently travel abroad to study architecture.
This year's fellowship will award $12,000 for 10 weeks of travel and research, the theme of which is to be directed by the recipient.
The awarding of the fellowship is the result of a two-stage design competition held in April. It is eligible for recent graduates (Class of 2019) and early-career professionals up to the age of 35 from the architecture programs of Cal Poly Pomona and the University of Oregon.
2019 Cavin Schedule
February 1st - Registration Opens
April 5th - 9th - First Round Charrette
May 10th - FInal Round, Presentations, Awards, and Reception
Background
MISSION
To advance the education of young architecture graduates through foreign travel-study.
FOUNDING
The Cavin Family Traveling Fellowship Fund was established in 2002 as part of the California Community Foundation. In 2006 the Pasadena & Foothill AIA Chapter established a Fellowship Secretary, Cal Poly Pomona Professor Emeritus Patrick Sullivan FAIA, to administer the intitial years of the Fellowship. Following professor Sullivan's passing in 2011, the fellowship was presided over by Cal Poly Pomona Professor of Architecture, Kip Dickson. In 2015 leadership and administration of the Cavin Fellowship was passed on to its current secretary, the 2008 recipient of the award, Assistant Professor of Architecture, Robert Alexander. The initial awarding of the Fellowship was to University of Oregon Alumnus, Mark Chenchin in 2007.
FELLOWSHIP AWARD
On the basis of a juried design competition, this endowed Fellowship annually awards a promising architecture graduate or practitioner who has graduated from the University of Oregon or from Cal Poly Pomona $12,000 to advance their education in architecture through ten weeks of self-devised foreign travel, research, and study.
Friends & Acknowledgements
The Cavin Family Travelling Fellowship has been positively influenced by the missions and formats of the Rotch Traveling Scholarship and the Ralph Rapson Traveling Fellowship.
The Department of Architecture and the College of Environmental Design at Cal Poly Pomona have agreed to help facilitate the mission of the Fellowship through alumni contact and maintenance and preservation of all Scholar journals for use by the general public at the archives of the College.
The Department of Architecture of the University of Oregon have agreed to help facilitate the mission of the Fellowship through alumni contact.
Contact
Robert Alexander, Fellowship Secretary
Assistant Professor/First Year Studio Coordinator
Department of Architecture
California State Polytechnic University, Pomona
ralexander@cpp.edu