The Deborah J. Norden Fund, established in 1995 in memory of architect and arts administrator Deborah Norden, awards a total of up to $5,000 annually in travel/study grants to students and recent graduates in the fields of architecture, architectural history, and urban studies. The Deborah J. Norden Fund is administered by the Architectural League of New York. The Deborah J. Norden Fund competition is announced each November.
Recipients of grants from the Deborah J. Norden Fund
2012
Benedict Clouette and Marlisa Wise
Forms of Aid: The Architecture of Humanitarian Space in Nairobi, Kenya
Julian Palacio
Material Tour de Force: The Work of Eladio Dieste
2011
Melanie Kaba
Anticipating, Negotiating, Conditioning: Tidal [Infra]Structures of Patagonia
2010
Jeff Geisinger
Connective Spaces and Social Capital in Medellin
Shima Baradaran Mohajeri
Alternative Modernity: Spatial Discourse in Architectural Paper Projects in Iran, 1960-1978
2009
Hubert Pelletier
The Stereotomy of Complex Surfaces in French Baroque Architecture
2008
Remy Bertin
Contextual Modernism for the New Khmer
Angela Starita
Lina Bo Bardi’s Restoration Plans for Salvador, Brazil
2007
Yutaka Sho
Tillers of the Horizon: Projecting Public Spaces by Women in Post-conflict Rwanda
Fiyel Levent
Re Reading Ornament: Textures in Islamic Spain
2006
Thomas Ryan
Horizontal Light: Lewerentz, Aalto and the Nordic Landscape
Tao Zhu
The Suburbanization and Land-Settlement Crisis in China, 1995-2005
2005
Joseph Dahmen
Rammed Earth: Contemporary and Traditional in Austria, Germany and France
Elijah Huge
Stationed Overseas: Global Systems, Local Lands
2004
Ruth Gyuse
The Kainji Dam Resettlement Project: The Politics of Vernacularization in Nigeria
Jennifer Magee
Interfacing Architecture in the Fragile Ecosystems of Australia
2003
Sadia Shirazi
Veiled Spaces: A Study of How Bedouin Women Use Public and Private Spaces in Cairo
2002
Ameet Hiremath
Information Technology Campuses:
Examining Neighborhood and Regional City Form in South India
Naoki Seshimo
Light and Proportion of Cistercian Monasteries
2001
Abigail Ransmeier
Rethinking Dharavi: An Analysis of Redevelopment Programs for Slums in Mumbai, India
2000
Ronald Rael
Wadi Hadramut: cities of earth
1999
Felecia Davis
Manhattan to Cidade Velha
Michael Sheridan
Constructed Landscapes
1998
Josef Asteinza
The National Center for the Arts and the Architecture of the Cuban Revolution
Diana Nicklaus
Learning in Stages: The Theaters of Berlin, Amsterdam, and London
1997
Philip J. Ryan
Contemporary Minimalist Architecture in Europe
1996
Karim Hammad
Forms for Permanent Housing for Palestinian Refugees
Medina-Diana Lasansky
The Partita a Scacchi festival in Marostica, Italy
1995
Timothy Kohut
Relationship of Architecture and Community-Building in Tegulcigalpa, Honduras
Amar Sen and Ehrmei Yuan
The Path to the Center in Tibetan Architecture
