Fay Jones School student David Sweere awarded 2019 Aydelott Prize for travel research
University of Arkansas Fay Jones School of Architecture and Design fifth-year architecture student David Sweere has been awarded the 2019 Aydelott Prize, beating out three other competing Aydelott Travel Award recipients. The Aydelott Travel Award and Prize have been awarded each year since 2016. The unconventional award program selects four Travel Award winners who are each given $20,000 to visit and analyze four buildings of their choosing, with one student selected from this cohort for the Prize portion of the program. Each student is asked to produce an essay documenting and analyzing their research and these essays are what is judged to determine who is ultimately awarded the Aydelott Prize. Pet Plaza in St. Louis, designed by. Image courtesy of Wikimedia user Teemu08.The award was created in part to highlight the talent emanating from schools in the southeastern United States and due to this fact, only students from University of Arkansas, Auburn University, Mississippi Stat...
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University of Arkansas Fay Jones School of Architecture and Design fifth-year architecture student David Sweere has been awarded the 2019 Aydelott Prize, beating out three other competing Aydelott Travel Award recipients.
The Aydelott Travel Award and Prize have been awarded each year since 2016. The unconventional award program selects four Travel Award winners who are each given $20,000 to visit and analyze four buildings of their choosing, with one student selected from this cohort for the Prize portion of the program. Each student is asked to produce an essay documenting and analyzing their research and these essays are what is judged to determine who is ultimately awarded the Aydelott Prize.
The award was created in part to highlight the talent emanating from schools in the southeastern United States and due to this fact, only students from University of Arkansas, Auburn University, Mississippi Stat...