The Berkeley-Rupp Architecture Professorship and Prize is a prize awarded every two years by the

University of California, Berkeley College of Environmental Design The College of Environmental Design, also known as the Berkeley CED, or simply CED, is one of fourteen schools and colleges at the University of California, Berkeley. The school is located in Bauer Wurster Hall on the southeast corner of the mai ...

(UEC). The cash portion of the prize includes $100,000 awarded to the recipient. Recipients also earn a semester-long professorship at

UC Berkeley The University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley, Berkeley, Cal, or California) is a public university, public land-grant university, land-grant research university in Berkeley, California. Established in 1868 as the University of Californi ...

. The prize is intended to honor a "distinguished design practitioner or academic who has made significant contributions to advance gender equity in the field of

architecture Architecture is the art and technique of designing and building, as distinguished from the skills associated with construction. It is both the process and the product of sketching, conceiving, planning, designing, and constructing building ...

, and whose work exhibits commitment to

sustainability Specific definitions of sustainability are difficult to agree on and have varied in the literature and over time. The concept of sustainability can be used to guide decisions at the global, national, and individual levels (e.g. sustainable livi ...

and community."

History

Sigrid Lorenzen Rupp Sigrid Lorenzen Rupp (1943 – May 27, 2004) was a German-American architect. She ran a private practice, SLR Architects, in Palo Alto, California, from 1976 to 1998, and specialized in designing facilities for tech companies in Silicon Valley. ...

created the idea of the prize prior to her death in 2004, in order to "foster a holistic approach to architecture and professional practice." Jennifer Wolch, Dean of UEC, helped lead the effort to establishing the prize. The inaugural year for the prize was 2012. The physical representation of the prize, created by Associate Professor

Ronald Rael Ronald Rael (born 1971, Conejos County, Colorado) is an American artist known for architecture, human rights and environmental advocacy along the U.S - Mexico border, earthen architecture, and 3D printing. He works independently, and operates co ...

(Berkeley) and Associate Professor

Virginia San Fratello Virginia San Fratello (b. 1971, Savannah, Georgia) is an American artist known for 3D printing, architecture, and ceramics. She attended North Carolina State University and Columbia University. She collaborates with Ronald Rael under the name ...

(San Jose State University), is made of 3D printed ceramic. Rather than the two dimensional medals awarded as architecture prizes, whose history is rooted in war, the three-dimensional award and is "fabricated under the new paradigm of additive manufacturing" using humankind oldest and most humble material.

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