Category Archives: Travel Grants

Notre Dame: Architecture for the Soul

January 10, 2011 – 4:07 pm

I had admired it from afar for a long time, from still images in collegiate art history texts, and I have always had a thing for flying buttresses and ribbed vaults. So with a Centerbrook Travel Grant in hand, I headed straight for the Cathédrale Notre Dame de Paris, which is surrounded by the meanders [...]

By Anita Macagno Cecchetto | Also posted in Beloved Buildings, History | Comments (2)

Cuba – The Pearl of the Caribbean

December 2, 2010 – 3:34 pm

I had the opportunity to visit Cuba in 2004 through a Centerbrook Travel Grant in conjunction with an educational program sponsored by the Center for Cuban Studies in New York.  The tour was led by architect Robert Mayers, who had significant contacts with artists, architects, and urban planners from his six or seven previous trips [...]

By Meg Lyons | Comments (2)

An Obscure But Worthy Legacy

July 20, 2010 – 11:43 am

I traveled to Prague and Vienna in 2008 to study the work of Jose Plecnik (1872-1957), a trip made possible by a Centerbrook Travel Grant.  This was my second opportunity to study far-flung architecture through this unique program:  My first, in 1996, allowed me to experience the work of C. R. Mackintosh in Scotland.  Most [...]

By Edward Keagle | Also posted in History | Tagged , | Comments (0)

Singing the Praises of Straw-Bale Construction

December 9, 2009 – 11:56 am

With a grant in hand from the Home Office, intern architect Eric Lubeck headed not for Rome, Prague, or Paris in search of architecture, but to Canelo, Arizona.  The town’s succinct Wikipedia entry (one sentence) describes it as a “ghost town.”  Erik reports that there are, in fact, flesh and blood residents of Canelo, not [...]

By David Holahan | Also posted in Sustainable Design | Tagged , | Comments (0)