Graduate Student Rebecca Kennedy Receives 2018 Ike Kligerman Barkley Traveling Fellowship

Rebecca Kennedy, MArch I student, has been awarded one of two prestigious Ike Kligerman Barkley Traveling Fellowships for 2018. 

Kennedy will document rural vernacular construction techniques from the Mexican state of Oaxaca, where such building traditions are under threat of extinction as concrete construction becomes the norm. She will examine the place-based building technologies that make these structures so unique, as well as their role as cultural and historical evidence of shifting traditions.

The Ike Kligerman Barkley Traveling Fellowship is comprised of up to $12,000 in prize funds awarded annually for both travel and research to up to two graduate students in their penultimate year. The intent of the IKB Traveling Fellowship is to consider the intersection between traditional and contemporary design.

Learn more in a recent announcement from Ike Kligerman Barkley and via an article on Archinect.