McGill grad wins architecture prize
Written by on March 11th, 2010 in Latest News.
A McGill university graduate has captured the prestigious Canada Council for the Arts Prix de Rome in Architecture for Emerging Practitioners.
The $34,000 prize has been awarded to Elizabeth Paden.
It’s handed out annually to a recent graduate of one of the country’s 10 accredited schools of architecture who demonstrate outstanding potential.
Paden will have the opportunity to visit architectural sites abroad which includes an internship with an international firm.
She plans to study the impact of large-scale public buildings in a geo-political sense.
Three regions Paden will be visiting are:
- The suburbs of Paris.
- The boundary between Israel and the West Bank.
- The border regions between Norway, Sweden, Finland and Russia.
Her internship will be with the 0047 company in Oslo, Norway, where she will develop a public exhibition to be showcased in Canada.
A native of Sudbury who now lives in Toronto, Paden worked closely with the Mohawk First Nations in the community of Kahnawake for her master’s thesis to examine how land claim disputes are negotiated and to look at different solutions.
In 2009, Paden was awarded the Student Medal from the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada, the American Institute of Architects Henry Adams Medal, and the A.F. Dunlop Traveling Scholarship, which will fund a research trip to Nunavut in August 2010.
