Cavin Fellowship

Advancing the Education of Young Architecture Graduates through Foreign Travel-Study

BRIEF

The Cavin Family Traveling Fellowship Fund was established in 2002 as part of the California Community Foundation. In 2006 the Pasadena & Foothill AIA Chapter established a Fellowship Secretary, Cal Poly Pomona Professor Emeritus Patrick Sullivan FAIA, to administer the intitial years of the Fellowship. Following professor Sullivan’s passing in 2011, the fellowship was presided over by Cal Poly Pomona Professor of Architecture, Kip Dickson. In 2015 leadership and administration of the Cavin Fellowship was passed on to its current secretary, the 2008 recipient of the award, Assistant Professor of Architecture, Robert Alexander. The initial awarding of the Fellowship was to University of Oregon Alumnus, Mark Chenchin in 2007.

SCHEDULE

The Preliminary Design Review Panel will review all entries on March 23- March 30th. If you are selected as one of the finalists, you must provide (at your own expense) four 20” x 20” physical boards for the final selection process. The graphic content of these boards shall be identical to the previously submitted digital submission evaluated during the Preliminary Review. Boards will due one week (May 15th) before the Final Presentation and Dinner at Cal Poly Pomona, May 22nd, 2018. These boards shall become the property of the Cavin Family Traveling Fellowship. Lettering shall be large enough for exhibit viewing. The graphic composition of the panels is at the discretion of the Entrant. Each panel shall be 20″ x 20″ foam core or other light-weight, warp-proof material. To accommodate the display system, a 1/4” margin should be left free of any lettering at the top and bottom of the panels.

AWARDS

Fellowship Award

On the basis of a juried design competition, this endowed Fellowship annually awards a promising architecture graduate or practitioner who has graduated from the University of Oregon or from Cal Poly Pomona $12,000 to advance their education in architecture through ten weeks of self-devised foreign travel, research, and study.