Three prizes of $3,000 each will be awarded to GSAPP MArch and MSAAD students whose fall semester studio projects most successfully comply with, interpret, and/or critically extend the terms and spirit of the 2015 Paris Agreement. Proposals should directly address the social, technical, political, and symbolic implications of the climate accord in an architecturally specific fashion, at multiple scales.

Applications must be received by Friday, December 18, 2020. Please visit the Buell Center’s POWER website to learn more about the submission process and view examples of winning submissions from the previous cycles.

Applicants for the 2020 prize must submit the following in PDF format by Friday, 18 December to buellcenter@columbia.edu: a 400-word description of one studio project, with complete visual documentation, as well as a carbon footprint estimate and other technical specifications, on no more than six letter-sized pages in landscape orientation; curriculum vitae with contact information; and the name and e-mail address of the project’s studio critic. Group submissions from team studio projects are accepted. Applications are typically submitted at the end of the fall semester, and winners are announced at the start of the spring semester. A jury will select one winner from each of the first-, second-, and third-year fall semester studios.

This prize forms a part of the Buell Center’s ongoing research project, “Power: Infrastructure in America.”