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Five
designers will spend the next three years helping to revitalize low-income
areas at locations throughout the country as recipients of the Frederick
P. Rose Architectural Fellowship awards. The Enterprise Foundation, a
national nonprofit housing and community development organization, awarded
the fellowships. Each fellow will receive a $40,000 annual stipend plus
benefits and will work directly with a nonprofit development organization
in need of their services.
A jury selected the new fellows from more than 50 applicants nationwide,
based on their academic records, relationships with their partner organizations,
and feasibility of their proposals. Each has one or more master’s
degrees and has illustrated a passionate commitment to improving the quality
of life in low-income areas. The recipients and their affiliated nonprofit
groups are:
- Victoria Ballard Bell, Assoc. AIA,
in partnership with Design Corps and continuing the work of the late
Samuel Mockbee, FAIA, will design and construct a job-training and child-care
center in Marion, Ala., to address the root causes of the community’s
chronic unemployment and poverty
- Nathaniel A. Corum, in partnership
with Red Feather Development Group, Bozeman, Mont., will design and
construct a planned community, a sustainable housing research building,
and individual homes for several Native American communities facing
acute housing shortages on the Great Plains
- Michael
J. Gatto, Assoc. AIA, in partnership with Foundation Communities,
will bring a vision of green, sustainable design to the construction
and revitalization of affordable housing in Austin, Tex.
- Fernando Martí, in
partnership with Mission Housing Development Corp., will conduct community
planning and implement residents’ visions through the design and
construction of community development and housing projects in San Francisco’s
Mission District
- Jessica B. Wendover, Assoc. AIA,
in partnership with Urban Ecology, will conduct community visioning
processes and design and construct community revitalization projects
in Oakland’s Lower San Antonio neighborhood.
“Adequate housing is a basic human right and communities without
it are inherently unstable,” Gatto wrote in his extensive application
form, representative of the intellectual and emotional commitment of the
awardees.
The Enterprise Foundation fellowship program was established in 2000
to “unite underserved public service organizations with architectural
expertise.” Nine fellowships have already been created. The awards
honor the late Frederick P. Rose, a prominent New York developer and philanthropist
who believed strongly in the value of good design and the spirit of public
service. The new fellows will begin their three-year terms on August 1.
“The
Rose Fellowships allow some of the top architecture talent in the country
to make immediate, lasting contributions to low-income communities,”
Bart Harvey, Enterprise Foundation chair and CEO, explains. “As
a result, five nonprofits will have tangible help in addressing community
problems like the lack of affordable housing and quality child care.”
Judges for the 2003 fellowships were:
- Jamie Blosser, current Rose
Fellow
- Susan Butler-Plum, director,
Skadden Fellowship Foundation
- Harvey Gantt, FAIA, former
chair of the National Capital Planning Commission and principal of Gantt
Huberman Architects, Charlotte
- Daniel Hernandez, Assoc. AIA,
Jonathan Rose Companies LLC
- Robin Hughes, executive director,
Los Angeles Community Design Center
- William Morrish, Elwood R.
Quesada Professor, University of Virginia School of Architecture
- John Ratliff, Assoc. AIA, Esq.,
director and counsel, AIA Center for Livable Communities
- Jonathan Rose, president,
Jonathan Rose Companies LLC
- Vincent Scully, AIA, Sterling
Professor Emeritus, History of Art, Yale University, distinguished visiting
professor, University of Miami School of Architecture
- Ron Shiffman, cofounder of
New York City's Pratt Institute Center for Community and Environmental
Development
- Jim Stockard, urban planner
and professor at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design
- Lee Weintraub, director,
Urban Landscape Architecture Program, City College of New York School
of Architecture and Environmental Studies
- Peter Werwath, vice president,
Enterprise Foundation
- R. Peter Wilcox, founder
and executive director, Portland Community Design, Portland, Ore.
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