Vernacular Architecture Forum Ambassadors Award

The School of Architecture has been awarded a Vernacular Architecture Forum (VAF) Ambassadors Award to support the travel of five Ph.D. students to attend the upcoming Vernacular Architecture Forum in Galloway Township, New Jersey, May 7-10. The successful application was submitted by Tanya Southcott (M. Arch. CMT 2013) on behalf of Susane Halveka, Heather Braiden, Jaimie Cudmore, and Tania Gutiérrez Monroy.

Tanya Southcott has also been awarded a Pamela H. Simpson Presenter's Fellowship towards the presentation of her paper, "Erasing the Vernacular: Slum Demolition in Postwar Montreal," which draws on her dissertation research.