Each year, the OAA provides annual scholarships in the amount of $2500 each to be awarded to students in any year of the undergraduate or graduate architecture program at each of the five Ontario Schools of Architecture (and one to a student in OCAD University’s Environmental Design program in the amount of $2000).
The Exceptional Leadership Through Design Excellence Scholarships are awarded annually to up to two students at each school who best demonstrate design excellence and exemplary responses to the need for Climate Action in a project or assignment, as well as two students at each school for their work as related to either Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion or Truth and Reconciliation.
The Architectural Guild Prize Fund (which provides a Guild Medal) is also awarded annually to the graduating students from each of the five Schools of Architecture in Ontario who demonstrated exceptional leadership through design excellence combined with innovative approaches to sustainability in an assignment or project. These scholarships are administered by each school, entirely according to their discretion.
The recipients for 2023, along with links to examples of their work when possible, will continue to be listed here as the schools make their announcements.
Carleton University – Azrieli School of Architecture and Urbanism
Laurentian University – McEwen School of Architecture
- Exceptional Leadership Through Design Excellence: Sustainability: Noor Balit, 2nd year, (No Project Thesis)
- Exceptional Leadership Through Design Excellence: Sustainability: Seamus Magnus, 2nd year, (No Project Thesis)
- Exceptional Leadership Through Design Excellence: Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion or Truth and Reconciliation: Jonathan Kabumbe, 2nd year M.Arch graduate student, for “KUSHIRIKIANA: Une approche architecturale collaborative et résiliente supportant la prévention de la violence sexuelle à l’Est de la République Démocratique du Congo”
- Exceptional Leadership Through Design Excellence: Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion or Truth and Reconciliation: Sarah Mason, 2nd year M.Arch graduate student, for “Our Land is Our Life: Learning from Chinook “King” Salmon”
- Guild Medal: Sydney Sheppard for “The Red + Green” Creating a Regenerative Narrative through the Industrial Wastelands of Sudbury, Ontario“
Toronto Metropolitan University
- Exceptional Leadership Through Design Excellence: Sustainability: Rinih Lazar and Keithleen Garcia, both undergraduate BArchSci, Year 4, for “The Longhouse: Dufferin Collegiate Institute”
- Exceptional Leadership Through Design Excellence: Sustainability: Bernadette Rosano, graduate MArch, Year 2, for “Challenging Obsolescence: Exploring the Use of Unprotected Buildings”
- Exceptional Leadership Through Design Excellence: Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion or Truth and Reconciliation: Saskia Scarce, undergraduate BArchSci, Year 3 for “On the Ground + On the Walls”
- Exceptional Leadership Through Design Excellence: Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion or Truth and Reconciliation: Jessica Tandazo, graduate MArch, Year 2, for “Transforming Jane and Finch’s Temporary Social Infrastructure into a Permanent Urban Living Room”
- Guild Medal: Ted Bulaclac, graduate, MArch, recent grad, for “Embracing Informality: Panarchy as a Model of Change in the Philippines’ Informal Settlements”
University of Toronto – John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design
- Exceptional Leadership Through Design Excellence: Sustainability: Ariel Clipperton, BA Architectural Studies, Year 4, for “A Post Industrial Palimpsest”
- Exceptional Leadership Through Design Excellence: Sustainability: Oluwatamilore Ayeye, Architectural Studies, Year 4, for “Diamond Pavilion - ARC380”
- Exceptional Leadership Through Design Excellence: Sustainability: Brian Lee, Architectural Studies, Year 4, for “Diamond Pavilion - ARC380”
- Exceptional Leadership Through Design Excellence: Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion or Truth and Reconciliation: Taryn Magee, Master of Architecture, Year 2, for “Weaving Indigenous Traditions within Contemporary Architecture”
- Exceptional Leadership Through Design Excellence: Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion or Truth and Reconciliation: Daniel Lam, Master of Architecture, Year 2, for “Weaving Indigenous Traditions within Contemporary Architecture”
- Exceptional Leadership Through Design Excellence: Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion or Truth and Reconciliation: Simon Newbigging, Master of Architecture, Year 1, for “The Land I Am Standing on Today”
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University of Waterloo – School of Architecture
- Exceptional Leadership Through Design Excellence: Sustainability: Owen Melisek, 4th year student, and Elizabeth Victoria Sabourin, 4th year student,
for "Urban Foray: Museum of Rome’s Natural and Cultural History"
- Exceptional Leadership Through Design Excellence: Sustainability: Leanne Li, 3rd year student, for
“Kenilworth Reservoir: A Place of Transparency, Remediation, and Play”
- Exceptional Leadership Through Design Excellence: Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion or Truth and Reconciliation: Jarin Hoque, 4th year student, for “Arrival Village”
- Exceptional Leadership Through Design Excellence: Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion or Truth and Reconciliation: Aatiqah Sarfraz, 2nd year student, for
“Remembrance of Repasts”
- Guild Medal: Ethan Duffey, Masters student, for
“Counting Carbon: Evaluating the Quality and Environmental Impacts of Design Through Product Prototyping”
OCAD University
- Exceptional Leadership Through Design Excellence: Sustainability: Lee Fu for “WanderOff"
Milic Scholarship
The Milic Scholarship is awarded to a student of Crescent School, Toronto who has demonstrated "pursuit of excellence in all his/her endeavours and helping others to achieve the same"; "demonstrated academic excellence and leadership within the student body” and “who is pursuing post-secondary education immediately after graduation."
This scholarship was set up in memory of Vladan Milic, past president of the OAA. The scholarship recipient is: Jayden Lau