Berkeley

Through essay writing and a travel fellowship, the Berkeley Prize Endowment educates architects-in-training that the smallest act of building has global implications: that design can and does play a major role in the social, cultural, and psychological life of both the individual and society at large.
The Endowment was established in 1996 in the Department of Architecture, College of Environmental Design at the University of California, Berkeley as the result of a generous gift from Judith Lee Stronach. The Berkeley Prize embraces the idea that social ideals are fundamental to making buildings of worth by:

• Encouraging and fostering undergraduate architecture students to take a serious interest in how contemporary architecture may serve social needs.
• Encouraging and fostering cross-disciplinary faculty interest for participation in undergraduate design studios.
• Encouraging and fostering the examination of how undergraduate architectural design is taught.

  read further at http://www.berkeleyprize.org/endowment/