Gift Will Endow an Annual Prize to Recognize Outstanding SCI-Arc Graduate Thesis Projects.
SCI-Arc today announced it has received a transformative $100,000 gift from world-renowned architect and SCI-Arc trustee Frank Gehry, and his wife, Berta.
The noteworthy contribution will go toward the establishment of the Gehry Prize, to be awarded annually to the best thesis projects selected by critics and jurors in the Graduate Thesis Weekend hosted in September.
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Dezeen News: architect Frank Gehry has donated $100,000 to the Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI-Arc) to endow a new annual prize for the best graduate thesis projects.
The Gehry Prize will be awarded to projects selected by critics and jurors in the Graduate Thesis Weekend hosted in September. The first prize will be given out during the 2012 graduation ceremony, held on 9 September. Gehry has been a SCI-Arc trustee since 1990 and his ongoing commitment to SCI-Arc will be celebrated at the school’s 40th anniversary reception in April 2013.
We recently reported that Gehry is designing a new campus for social media giant Facebook in San Francisco.
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