Carnegie Mellon Architecture Awards
Recognizing excellence, supporting innovation
Firth of Forth, Scotland. By Graham Murtha (B.Arch '25), recipient of the 2022 Gindroz Prize for Summer Travel and Study in Europe for the proposal “Studies of stone architecture in Ireland, Scotland and England.”
Carnegie Mellon Architecture offers the following awards, prizes, scholarships and design competitions to students, faculty and alumni of the school.
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Student Awards
Carnegie Mellon Architecture offers awards for students in the fall and spring semesters of each academic year. More information is available on each award's page linked below.
Fall Awards
Project & Internship Support
- Burdett Assistantship | B.Arch & M.Arch Student Award | Call for Applications Fall 2024
- Alwin Cassens, Jr. Memorial Fund in Architecture | Student Award | Call for Applications Fall 2024
- Measuring & Monitoring Services, Inc. Internship Fund | Undergraduate Student Award | Call for Applications Fall 2024
Research Award
- Ferguson Jacobs Prize in Architecture | Student Award | Call for Applications Fall 2025
Sustainable Design Award
- Ralph H. Burt Jr. and Alva L. Hill Scholarship | B.Arch & M.Arch Student Award | Call for Applications Fall 2024
Travel Awards
- Gindroz Prize for Summer Travel and Study in Europe | Student Award | Call for Applications Fall 2024
- Luther S. Lashmit and Louis F. Valentour Traveling Scholarships | Student Awards | Call for Applications Fall 2024
Spring Awards
Design & Representation Awards
- EPIC Metals Competition | B.Arch Student Award | Next round Spring 2025
- John Knox Shear Award | B.Arch Student Award | Call for Applications Fall 2024
Professional Promise Award
- Stewart L. Brown Memorial Scholarship | B.Arch Student Award | Call for Applications Fall 2024
Public Interest Design Awards
- George W. Anderson, Jr. Award | Graduate Student Award | Call for Applications Fall 2024
- David Lewis Community Engagement Design Scholarship | Student Award | Call for Applications Fall 2024
Real Estate Award
- Deller Prize in Sustainable Architecture and Real Estate | B.Arch Student Award | Call for Applications Fall 2024
Sustainability Award
- Payette Prize in Building Science | Student Award | Call for Applications Fall 2024
Travel Award
- Master of Architecture Travel Awards | M.Arch Student Award | Next round Spring 2025
Graduation Awards
Carnegie Mellon Architecture recognizes the outstanding achievement of graduating students through its annual Graduation Awards program. The winners are announced during the annual Diploma Ceremony.
- Alpha Rho Chi Medal | B.Arch & M.Arch Student Award | Next round Spring 2025
- AIA Medal for Academic Excellence | B.Arch & M.Arch Student Award | Next round Spring 2025
- Alumni Design Award | B.Arch Student Award | Call for Applications Fall 2024
- Master’s Thesis/Capstone Project Graduation Awards | Master's Student Award | Next round Spring 2025
- ARCC King Student Medal Program for Excellence in Architectural + Environmental Research | PhD Student Award | Next round Spring 2025
Faculty Awards
Fall Awards
Research Awards
- Ferguson Jacobs Prize in Architecture | Faculty Award | Call for Applications Fall 2024
- Isabel Sophia Liceaga Discretionary Fund | Faculty Award | Call for Applications Fall 2024
- PJ Dick Innovation Fund: Faculty Grants Program | Faculty Award | Call for Applications Fall 2024
Alumni Award
Travel Award
- Delbert Highlands Travel Fellowship | Alumni Award | Call for Applications Spring 2025
External Awards & Scholarships
The following awards and scholarships are available from organizations outside the school.
- AIA Pennsylvania Emerging Professionals ARE Grant: This award provides a grant to students graduating with a degree in architecture to cover the cost of testing for three (3) divisions of the Architect Registration Examination® (ARE®). Applications are due in August of each year.
- John Belle Travel Fellowship: This $10,000 annual award helps expand students’ understanding of the public realm in existing cities through travel and research and how the knowledge gained might be applied to contemporary urban needs and design challenges. Applications are due in February of each year.
- John Stewardson Memorial Fellowship in Architecture: This annual competition is open to students attending an accredited architecture program in Pennsylvania. The fellowship provides a $10,000 traveling award for a young architect to study architecture abroad. The competition registration and brief are issued in January of each year.
Archived Awards
The following awards were previously available from Carnegie Mellon Architecture.
- Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM) Internship | B.Arch Student Award
- Margaret B. Gruger (A’ 41) Faculty Fund | Faculty Award