The SOM Foundation supports individuals with the highest aspirations to enhance the design of the built environment.
3D representation of Los Angeles habitats. Courtesy of Maya Livio.
Gabriel Cuéllar
De Peter Yi
A series of strategies aimed at overcoming the minimum lot size zoning ordinance and designing across lot lines. © Gabriel Cuéllar.
Ian Caine
Esteban López Ochoa
Rudy Niño, Jr.
Christine Quattro
Wei Zhain
The research team will create a taxonomy of vacant or underutilized parcels, establishing parameters related to size, cost, zoning, location, and use. © Ian Caine, J. William Arch, Melanie Bartholomew, Devon Duffin, Phuoc Luu, Diana Rodriguez, Evey Santillan, and Michelyn Smith.
Aerial view of the urban fabric and context of Southwest Besòs in Barcelona. © REARQ UPC.
Pere Joan Ravetllat
Còssima Cornadó
Marta Domènech
Sara Vima-Grau
Fitzpatrick-Leland House, Los Angeles. Photograph: Tag Christof, 2021. Courtesy MAK Center.
Lydia Moog
Horse Island Research Station by Gray Organschi Architecture and Yale School of Architecture. © Lydia Moog.
Xianglan He
Bolun Qiu
Shuaibo Shi
The SOM Foundation supports individuals with the highest aspirations to enhance the design of the built environment.
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2019 Structural Engineering Research Fellowship
Samantha Eng
University of California, Berkeley
On Wednesday, June 5, the SOM Foundation will organize a fellows reception in Washington, DC coinciding with the AIA Conference on Architecture 2024. Read
The SOM Foundation and the MAK Center for Art and Architecture are pleased to announce the winner of the 2024 Researcher-in-Residence. Maya Livio is an interdisciplinary curator, writer, scholar, and media artist, as well as Assistant Professor of Climate, Environmental Justice, Media and Communication at American University. Livio will receive a $5,000 stipend and an eight-week summer residency in the live/work space at R.M. Schindler’s Fitzpatrick-Leland House in Los Angeles for work related to her research proposal entitled “Hospes: Housing Justice and Multispecies Cohabitation at the Wildland-Urban Interface.”
The SOM Foundation is pleased to announce the opening of the 2024 China Fellowship. The $5,000 China Fellowship is awarded annually to three students in the last two years of either an undergraduate or graduate program in architecture, landscape architecture, interior architecture, or urban design in the People’s Republic of China to conduct independent travel and research that contributes to the SOM Foundation’s current topic, “Adapting Housing Strategies to Respond to New Realities.” The China Fellowship was created in 2006 to support emerging design leaders to broaden their education and contribute to their future professional and academic careers.
The SOM Foundation is pleased to announce the winners of the 2023 SOM Foundation Robert L. Wesley Award. Three fellows, Lauren Jian (University of Southern California, School of Architecture), Noelle Robinson (North Carolina State University, College of Design), and Emmelea Schatz (University of Kansas, School of Architecture & Design) will each receive a $10,000 award in addition to a yearlong mentorship program that connects the students with leading BIPOC practitioners and educators. In addition to the three fellows, the jury decided to expand the number of fellows to include two $5,000 unrestricted awards to Antonia Pacheco (Texas Tech University, Huckabee College of Architecture) and William Pyle (Texas Tech University, Huckabee College of Architecture).