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 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 2024, along with links to examples of their work when possible are listed below.
Carleton University – Azrieli School of Architecture and Urbanism
Exceptional Leadership Through Design Excellence: Climate Action
- Hannah Morrier, selected based on the overall academic excellence
- Mya Thomas, selected based on the overall academic excellence
Exceptional Leadership Through Design Excellence: Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion or Truth and Reconciliation
Guild Prize
Laurentian University – McEwen School of Architecture
Exceptional Leadership Through Design Excellence: Climate Action
Exceptional Leadership Through Design Excellence: Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion or Truth and Reconciliation
Guild Prize
Toronto Metropolitan University – Faculty of Engineering and Architectural Science
Exceptional Leadership Through Design Excellence: Climate Action
Exceptional Leadership Through Design Excellence: Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion or Truth and Reconciliation
- Heba Al-Fayez, for a written statement, demonstrating exemplary work related to the topics of EDI and/or Truth & Reconciliation
- Julia Krulicki, for a written statement, demonstrating exemplary work related to the topics of EDI and/or Truth & Reconciliation
Guild Prize
- Ana Moyard for “Community of Craft - Multivalent Mountain Architecture”
University of Toronto – John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design
Exceptional Leadership Through Design Excellence: Climate Action
Exceptional Leadership Through Design Excellence: Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion or Truth and Reconciliation
Guild Prize
- Jessica Rachael Iozzo for “Industrial Detritus & Deep Time: Tracing Ecological Grief Through Didactic Leisure Experiences”
University of Waterloo – School of Architecture
Exceptional Leadership Through Design Excellence: Climate Action
- Renee Fang, Andrew Mcdonald, and Liam Engel for “Bloomfontein”
- Michael Kay, Anne Fu, Derek Shin, and Erin Kim for “Creek Commons: Rewilding the Urban Block”
Exceptional Leadership Through Design Excellence: Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion or Truth and Reconciliation
- Ian Bryane, Jan Hendrikse, Meghan Engelen, Maggie Claus, Jiadi Dai, Brianna Klei, Caresse Chia, Loh Min Ru, Naya Sanchez, Catherine Leung, and Sarah Abdulkarim for “Home, Small Home”
- Youngjin Kim, Abeer Ali, and Nisha Bhathella for “Surplus Properties for Affordable Housing, Student Activism”
Guild Prize
OCAD University
Exceptional Leadership Through Design Excellence: Climate Action