FELLOWSHIP: Peter Reyner Banham Fellowship. University of Buffalo, School of Architecture and Planning

FELLOWSHIP: Peter Reyner Banham Fellowship. University of Buffalo, School of Architecture and Planning

The Banham Fellowship in the Department of Architecture is intended to support design work that situates architecture within the general field of socio-cultural and material critique.
The fellowship honors the legacy of Peter Reyner Banham, who taught at UB from 1976-80 and produced a foundational body of scholarship on material/visual culture as a reflection of contemporary social life. Banham spent his time in Buffalo engaged in a scholarly project on the imaginary of American industrial architecture at work in early modernism that took the form of historical research, hands-on engagement and seminar instruction, resulting in his landmark work, A Concrete Atlantis.
In celebration of Banham’s legacy of experimental criticism, this fellowship supports the research and creative activity of emerging practitioners. Over the course of a year, fellows teach, deliver a public lecture and prepare an exhibition culminating from their research and creative work at the school.
Applications for the 2020 – 2021 academic year must be received by 25 March 2020.
For more information and for applying, please visit the University of Buffalo, School of Architecture webpage.

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