. . . since Ayn Rand. The Enterprise Rose Architectural Fellowship welcomes you to 2010, our tenth anniversary year and the beginning of a decade of change in the architectural design profession.
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“Fewer than one percent of architects in the latest survey of the American Institute of Architects (500 of 58,000 members) listed affordable housing as a primary interest. It takes vision, innovation, and dedication to reconcile good environmental practices with cost-consciousness. Knitting person-centered and earth-conscious values together with affordability and universal access is not unattainable or frivolous. Low-cost housing developers are beginning to accept the creative challenge of finding sustainable solutions to good design, good health, and affordability.” – Michelle Dean “Building Green”, published in 1999
Founded in 2000, the Enterprise Rose Architectural Fellowship is a part of sea-change coursing through the architectural design profession. In 2009—ten years after Michelle Dean reported 99% of architects’ disinterest in affordable housing design—the Rose fellowship received more candidate applications than ever before. These numbers testify to a paradigm shift in how today’s young designers are thinking about applying their skills and creativity in the workplace. Evidence of this shift manifests itself in many ways beyond our immediate experience as well.
Fact: A Harvard trained architect, Shaun Donovan, serves as the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development.
Fact: Donovan recently spoke at Harvard’s graduate school of design about architectural design’s crucial role in producing high quality affordable housing.
Fact: In July, Michelle Obama endorsed Architecture for Humanity at the White House.
Such a bright and focused national spotlight on design in the public interest is a clear sign of a positive change gaining steam in the profession. The Rose Fellowship is amongst the key players in this new movement, creating partnerships between emerging architects and community development corporations.
Our 2010 fellowship applications will be online at http://www.rosefellowship.org on February 16, 2010.