Welcome to the Cavin Family Traveling Fellowship (CFTF)

The Cavin Family Traveling Fellowship Fund was established in 2002 by Brooks Cavin, III, AIA as part of the California Community Foundation.The initial award of this traveling scholarship was in 2007. The Fellowship intends to offer travel-study opportunities to west coast scholars similar to the Rotch and Rapson Fellowships. The Fellowship intends to nurture design understanding of resource sustainability in the world. The Cavin Fellowship awards will honor the families and architectural traditions of William Brooks Cavin, Sr. and William Brooks Cavin, Jr., FAIA. The Cavin family will remain involved in the mission of the Fellowship.

ANNOUNCEMENT
2012 Cavin Family Traveling Fellowship
This year's competition will begin on Thursday March 15 at 5:00pm PST and end on Monday March 19 at 5:00pm PST.
Registration will be open on February 1st.
The presentation of the finalists will be Friday April 6 at Cal Poly Pomona.
Jury to be announced.
More information to come on February 1st. See you then!

PRESS RELEASE:
April 4, 2011
Pomona, CA: The 5th Annual Cavin Family Traveling Fellowship of $10,000 was awarded to Daniel Toole, following a juried design competition at California Polytechnic State University Pomona on Friday, April 1, 2011. Noel Shamble was selected as the alternate. The jury commended Toole’s project as “A comprehensive solution with attention to keeping a small footprint. The scheme had a strong analysis of climate with vertical hydroponic farming in buildings that functioned as systems for growing food. The concept yields a plaza that functions openly with the community and farming practices.” Daniel Toole (UO 2008), currently working at Perkins and Will in Seattle, plans a ten-week travel itinerary this summer to Europe to examine and catalog climate-responsive models of urbanism, landscape, and transportation in northern and southern Europe.

This year the program involved the design of a sustainable food center on an urban block in Whittier, California, to emphasize and promote sustainable gardening and education for the general public to encourage sustainable nutritional practices. Sustainable construction technologies, passive environmental control systems, recycled/renewable materials ad finishes are critical criteria of the scheme. Four finalists were selected for the second phase of the selection process, to discuss their design ideas and project concepts with the jury. The four finalists, were Daniel Bittiker (San Francisco, CA), Noel Shamble (San Diego, CA), Ronald Spencer (Portland, OR), and Daniel Toole (Seattle, CA).



This year's jury included:  Mark von Wodtke, FASLA, Jury Chair, of the Claremont Environmental Design Group (CEDG) founded with Brooks Cavin; Annie Chu, principal of CHU+GOODING Architects in Los Angeles; Alison G. Kwok, Ph.D., AIA, professor of architecture at the University of Oregon; Pablo La Roche, Ph.D., associate professor at Cal Poly Pomona; and Kevin O'Brien, principal of Pfeiffer Partners, Los Angeles.  Kip A. Dickson, Fellowship Secretary, coordinated the Fellowship competition. He is professor of architecture at Cal Poly Pomona and Graduate Coordinator.

As the mission of the Cavin Fellowship awards, a promising architecture graduate or practitioner receives $10,000 to advance their education in architecture through ten weeks of self-devised foreign travel-study. This two-stage competition drew more than 20 entries from around the country where the participants first competed in a 5-day design competition. After submitting their designs electronically for jury review, a selected number of scholars are invited to California State Polytechnic University, Pomona for juried interviews of their projects. Candidates are required to be 35 years of age or younger and to have a professional architecture degree from Cal Poly Pomona or the University of Oregon. The Cavin Family Traveling Fellowship Fund was established in 2002 as part of the California Community Foundation to honor the architectural traditions of William Brooks Cavin, Sr. and William Brooks Cavin, Jr., FAIA. In 2007, the first annual Cavin Fellowship awarded the fellowship to Mark Chenchin (UO), 2008 to Robert Alexander (Cal Poly), 2009 to Michael D'Ambrosia (UO), and 2010 to Garrett van Leeuwen (Cal Poly).

Kip A. Dickson R.A.
Architect/Professor/Graduate Coordinator M.Arch, MIA
NCARB IDP Coordinator
Cavin Family Traveling Fellowship Coordinator
Department of Architecture
California State Polytechnic University, Pomona

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