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Columbia University's Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation is pleased to announce the sixth annual Percival and Naomi Goodman Fellowship, to be awarded to a student graduating from Columbia University in spring 2013.
The purpose of the Fellowship is to enable the recipient to carry out a project of social significance related to the interests of Percival Goodman. Projects should be strongly humanist and excite the possibility that lives can be changed for the better. The amount of the award is $20,000. The project may be undertaken anywhere in the world. It may last up to one year after graduation and must be concluded with a final report, as indicated below. To be eligible for consideration, applicants must currently (during the 2012-2013 academic year) be completing either an M. Arch, A.A.D., Urban Planning, Urban Design, Historic Preservation, or Critical, Curatorial, and Conceptual Practices degree at Columbia’s Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation, or an undergraduate degree in architecture at Columbia or Barnard College.
Percival Goodman (1904-89), a professor in Columbia’s architecture school from 1946 to 1971, was an architect, planner, artist, and writer. His built and unbuilt projects were inspired by his strong commitment to social ideals. His synagogues were among the first religious structures in the United States to be designed according to modern architectural principles. With his brother, the sociologist and writer Paul Goodman, he wrote Communitas: Means of Livelihood and Ways of Life (1947), which influenced a generation of architects and planners and became an important catalyst of ideas in the 1960s and early 1970s about participatory architecture, cooperative living, environmental design, and the design professional as an advocate for improved social conditions. Today his final book, The Double E (1977), linking ecology and economy, makes him a prophet of the era of sustainability that is beginning to unfold.
Note also that the Percival Goodman Architectural Records and Papers are held by the Avery Library Department of Drawings and Archives at Columbia.
This Fellowship is made possible through the generosity of Raymond Lifchez, M. Arch. ’57, GSAPP Faculty 1961-70, in honor of his former teacher, colleague, and friend Percival Goodman.
The purpose of the Fellowship is to enable the recipient to carry out a project of social significance related to the interests of Percival Goodman. Projects should be strongly humanist and excite the possibility that lives can be changed for the better. The amount of the award is $20,000. The project may be undertaken anywhere in the world. It may last up to one year after graduation and must be concluded with a final report, as indicated below. To be eligible for consideration, applicants must currently (during the 2012-2013 academic year) be completing either an M. Arch, A.A.D., Urban Planning, Urban Design, Historic Preservation, or Critical, Curatorial, and Conceptual Practices degree at Columbia’s Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation, or an undergraduate degree in architecture at Columbia or Barnard College.
Percival Goodman (1904-89), a professor in Columbia’s architecture school from 1946 to 1971, was an architect, planner, artist, and writer. His built and unbuilt projects were inspired by his strong commitment to social ideals. His synagogues were among the first religious structures in the United States to be designed according to modern architectural principles. With his brother, the sociologist and writer Paul Goodman, he wrote Communitas: Means of Livelihood and Ways of Life (1947), which influenced a generation of architects and planners and became an important catalyst of ideas in the 1960s and early 1970s about participatory architecture, cooperative living, environmental design, and the design professional as an advocate for improved social conditions. Today his final book, The Double E (1977), linking ecology and economy, makes him a prophet of the era of sustainability that is beginning to unfold.
Note also that the Percival Goodman Architectural Records and Papers are held by the Avery Library Department of Drawings and Archives at Columbia.
This Fellowship is made possible through the generosity of Raymond Lifchez, M. Arch. ’57, GSAPP Faculty 1961-70, in honor of his former teacher, colleague, and friend Percival Goodman.
Application Guidelines
Please deliver seven printed copies of your application to the Dean’s Office in 402 Avery Hall by 12 PM (noon) on Monday, March 25th. The application must consist of the following five items:
1. The application itself, consisting of no more than 1,000 words describing the project to be carried out the year after graduation.
2. An essay of no more than 250 words indicating how your proposed project reflects one or more aspect of Percival Goodman’s work, life, and ideals.
3. A current curriculum vitae.
4. The names and e-mail addresses of at least two faculty members who have reviewed your proposed project.
5. A schematic budget indicating the costs for the project.
The application should begin by stating the nature of the proposed project and explains to the Selection Committee what you intend to do. This should include not only the activities that you plan to undertake but also how they will be accomplished, by whom, where, and when. Second, indicate why you want to do this project. Here you can refer to current ideas related to architecture, planning, design, and/or urban and regional development as well as the social significance of your proposed project. Lastly, indicate who will benefit and how from the project or its findings (if it is a research project).
Be sure to explicitly address the three points in the above paragraph: (1) project description, (2) project rationale, and (3) expected benefits. These may be used as sub-titles in organizing your text. Make every effort to provide a clear understanding of your proposed project and what you hope to accomplish. This means organizing your ideas, writing effectively, and using visual materials strategically.
The selection committee will comprise members of the Advisory Board of the Buell Center, Columbia University faculty, and outside architects and scholars familiar with the life and work of Percival Goodman. Among the criteria for evaluation will be the compelling nature of the proposed project and the applicant’s abiding commitment to the issues it raises.
The recipient will be required to submit intermittent progress reports to the committee over the course of the Fellowship and, at its conclusion, one final report along with archivable documentation of the project, upon receipt of which a final installment ($1,500) of the overall prize will be distributed.
An information session will be held on Tuesday, March 5th at 1 PM in Ware Lounge. Previous submissions are available for review in Avery Library.
1. The application itself, consisting of no more than 1,000 words describing the project to be carried out the year after graduation.
2. An essay of no more than 250 words indicating how your proposed project reflects one or more aspect of Percival Goodman’s work, life, and ideals.
3. A current curriculum vitae.
4. The names and e-mail addresses of at least two faculty members who have reviewed your proposed project.
5. A schematic budget indicating the costs for the project.
The application should begin by stating the nature of the proposed project and explains to the Selection Committee what you intend to do. This should include not only the activities that you plan to undertake but also how they will be accomplished, by whom, where, and when. Second, indicate why you want to do this project. Here you can refer to current ideas related to architecture, planning, design, and/or urban and regional development as well as the social significance of your proposed project. Lastly, indicate who will benefit and how from the project or its findings (if it is a research project).
Be sure to explicitly address the three points in the above paragraph: (1) project description, (2) project rationale, and (3) expected benefits. These may be used as sub-titles in organizing your text. Make every effort to provide a clear understanding of your proposed project and what you hope to accomplish. This means organizing your ideas, writing effectively, and using visual materials strategically.
The selection committee will comprise members of the Advisory Board of the Buell Center, Columbia University faculty, and outside architects and scholars familiar with the life and work of Percival Goodman. Among the criteria for evaluation will be the compelling nature of the proposed project and the applicant’s abiding commitment to the issues it raises.
The recipient will be required to submit intermittent progress reports to the committee over the course of the Fellowship and, at its conclusion, one final report along with archivable documentation of the project, upon receipt of which a final installment ($1,500) of the overall prize will be distributed.
An information session will be held on Tuesday, March 5th at 1 PM in Ware Lounge. Previous submissions are available for review in Avery Library.
