Awarded to students in their penultimate year at one of twenty-seven partner design schools, the KPF Traveling Fellowship funds a summer of travel-based architectural research to broaden winners’ education before completing their studies.
Following a day of deliberation, the jury unveiled this year’s three fellowship recipients on April 23 at an event at KPF’s New York office. Jury Chair Rossana Hu—Chair of the Department of Architecture at the Weitzman School of Design at the University of Pennsylvania and Founding Partner of Neri&Hu—opened by reflecting on the creative ambition evident in the winners’ portfolios, highlighting how each pushed the boundaries of conventional approaches to architectural research and design. She then walked attendees through the winners’ portfolios.
Oskar Haushofer, from Harvard University Graduate School of Design, will travel from Paris to Algiers to study the work of Fernand Pouillon, exploring how architecture at scale can address today’s housing crisis without sacrificing character or ambition. Allyson Monckton, of the Architectural Association, will trace permafrost melt across northern Canada, documenting how climate-driven shifts in ground conditions are compromising architecture and infrastructure, examining the relationships between the built environment, resource extraction, and climate instability. Aryan Kaul, of the University of Cambridge, will research human relationships to hydraulic systems within the Mexico Valley Basin, questioning popular discourse around climate resilience that separates people from hydrological systems, rather than integrating them. Honorable Mentions were awarded to Zhaosen Luo of Columbia GSAPP, Nikola Kolarov of Rice University, and Neus Bosch Matheu of Polytechnic University of Catalonia.
The jury for the 20th year of the fellowship included Rossana Hu; Hilary Sample, Assistant Professor at the Yale University School of Architecture and Co-Founder of MOS; Beatriz Colomina, Founding Director of the program in Media and Modernity and Professor in the School of Architecture at Princeton University; James von Klemperer, KPF President and Principal; and Brian Girard, KPF Principal.
Learn more about the fellowship and view the winning selections from 2025, 2024, 2023, 2022, and 2021.
