Latrobe Prize 2009 – Change that Matters
The College of Fellows invites individuals and teams to submit proposals for the 2009 Latrobe Prize.
This year’s prize seeks design research proposals that go beyond invention to innovation: Change that Matters. While our schools and practices continue to focus on the invention of new form, our capacity to innovate, to seek better ways to do the elemental things human beings have always done, falls short of pressing contemporary demands.
The format and content of the 2009 biennial call flows from the College’s mission—to support the Institute and advance the profession of architecture—and from the language of the last call: to stimulate proposals with direct relevance to practice, to emphasize practice in its role as both the instrument and object of economic and cultural transformation.
The College of Fellows seeks proposals that address problems across the full spectrum of contemporary professional activity:
Shifting organizational formations within the A/E/C industry; building science and technology; building materials and manufacturing; hybrid production techniques and design methodologies; technology transfer; quality control; ethics, economics and affordability; global development, with an emphasis on developing markets; integrated project delivery systems; building information modeling and digital interoperability; sustainability, energy and materials conservation; urban and regional ecology; transportation infrastructure; healthcare design and environmental health; and changing professional curricula and pedagogy.
In formulating this year’s theme, the Latrobe Prize program seeks to emphasize programs that cross traditional disciplinary boundaries as a means to broaden skills and perspective in the service of deeply rooted, sustainable innovation, change that we all see and feel.
The 2009 Latrobe Prize will be $100,000.
Since the inception of the Latrobe grant program in 2000, the College of Fellows has awarded exemplary proposals selected by jury review for their promise to advance professional knowledge in architecture.
Criteria for the evaluation of 2009 Latrobe Prize proposals include:
- Relevance of the proposed research program to the general goals and objectives of the College of Fellows, the Latrobe Prize program, and the 2009 theme;
- Breadth, depth, and innovativeness of the research program;
- Projected benefits of research outcomes to practice;
- Benefits of research outcomes to professional and public constituencies.
- Qualifications, expertise, prior achievements, maturity, and performance record of the applicant(s);
- Demonstrated capacity to administer a sustained research program, including the formulation and management of the budget;
- Quality and content of supporting documentation; and quality and content of letters of reference.
