NCARB Prize for Creative Integration of Practice and Education in the Academy

The NCARB Prize supports combined practice and education projects at the university level. Submissions must represent unique efforts to integrate education and practice initiatives while allowing students to earn academic credit.

NCARB will award up to:

• One $25,000 grand prize 
  
• Five awards of $7,500 through this prestigious program. 
  

At the discretion of the jury, honorable mention may be awarded.

Prize Overview

NCARB’s most recent practice analysis underscores the findings of The Boyer Report and identifies specific examples of the disparity between practice and education. The 2007 Practice Analysis of Architecture identified five domains and over 100 knowledge/skills that the profession rated as important for recently licensed architects practicing independently. Seventeen knowledge/skills were identified as being acquired after licensure, despite the fact that all were designated as essential for recently licensed architects practicing independently. [more]

Background

The NCARB Prize was initiated in 2001 in response to the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching’s report, Building Community: A New Future for Architecture Education and Practice.As envisioned by Peter Steffian, FAIA, who served as Council presidentin 2001, the NCARB Prize program was designed to encourage, reward, andshowcase diverse programs and activities that wholly integrate practiceand education in an academic setting. [more]

Eligibility Requirements

Architecture schools with programs that are accredited by the National Architectural Accrediting Board (NAAB) and architecture schools with programs that are candidates for NAAB-accreditation are invited to submit projects. Projects must also involve a non-faculty architect, offer the project as part of the architecture curriculum for academic credit, and have commenced no earlier than the fall 2007 academic term. [more]

Submission Deadline

Submissions must be received by NCARB no earlier than Tuesday, January 5, 2010, and no later than Tuesday, February 2, 2010, 5:00 p.m. EST. No submissions will be accepted after February 2, 2010, 5:00 p.m. EST.  [more]

Prize Conditions

NCARB will award up to one $25,000 grand prize and five awards of $7,500 through this prestigious program. All eligible submissions that meet theNCARB Prize 9 submission requirements will be reviewed by the NCARBPrize jury. NCARB reserves the right not to make any awards based onthe quality of submissions. The NCARB Prize jury will meet during theAssociation of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA) Annual Meetingin March 2010. [more]

Submission Requirements

Submissions must contain all of the submission materials outlined in the format, quantity, and medium noted. [more]

Submission Instructions

Instructions for submitting projects for NCARB Prize 9. Incomplete submissions and submissions that do not meet the NCARB Prize 9 submission requirements will not be accepted. [more]

NCARB Prize 9 Submission Form

For more information on this year’s NCARB Prize, download the NCARB Prize 9 Submission Form.

Looking Ahead: NCARB Prize and Grant Programs

The criteria forsubmissions for the 2010 NCARB Grant and the 2011 NCARB Prize programswill increasingly focus on projects’ effectiveness in addressing issuesnoted in the 2007 Practice Analysis of Architecture. [more]

2009 NCARB Prize Book

Click here to request the 2009 NCARB Prize Book.

Questions?

Contact ncarbprize@ncarb.org for more information.