How does this work?

IMPORTANT: The Rotch Travelling Studio grant is not being offered in 2017. The Rotch Travelling Studio is a foreign-travel grant that provides up to $20,000 toward enhancing students’ architectural education. Please check back Summer 2018 for more information on the next grant cycle.

Grant proposals are invited from faculty members in all U.S. NAAB-accredited schools of architecture for travel anywhere in the world during the following calendar year. Studios are to be directed by the faculty applicant and are intended to supplement a specific design studio at the school. The faculty applicant’s architecture department will be the grant recipient and is responsible for dispersing funds and monitoring the studio’s performance.

For more information contact chart@architects.org.

What are you looking for?

The Rotch Travelling Studio jury will base their evaluation on:

1. How the travel to your proposed location will enhance the pedagogical objectives of the studio.
2. The originality of research and its benefit to the architectural academy.
3. The innovation in the studio structure and delivery.
4. The specific studio goals, objectives and product to be completed in the semester timeframe.
5. Clarity of writing.