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 competition winner announced!
On April 6, 2012 the finalists for the Cavin Family Traveling Fellowship presented their submissions to the 2012 Cavin Jury. The day of sustainability discussions started with a lecture in the morning by guest juror Edward Mazria. Finalists for this year’s event were:

Zach Morgan- Cal Poly
Paul Wolfe- University of Oregon
Lang Lor- Cal Poly
Laura Squillace- University of Oregon (Alternate)
Aaron Locke-Cal Poly (Winner)

Congratulations to Aaron Locke a 2011 BArch graduate from Cal Poly. Aaron will be traveling to India in the coming months. Last year’s winner Daniel Toole from the University of Oregon had to decline the fellowship last year due to health reasons and Noel Shamble last year’s runner up from the University of Oregon will be traveling this summer as the fellowship will be sponsoring two travelers this summer.

2012 Jury comments.
We were really impressed with you conceived and produced in just four short days. The jury would like to congratulate everyone for their achievement. For each project the jury noted particular strengths.

Zach Morgan: Meandering Knowledge
Poetic journey alternating between bridges and baskets, outward and inward orientations, that provided framed and screened views of the wetlands.

Paul Wolfe: Bolsa Chica Tidal Exploration Center
Evokes a boardwalk with pavilions shaping outdoor water rooms and an inverted aquarium that engages visitors in a descent into the water habitat.

Lang Lor: The Nest
Bold, clear building form, evocative in its strong connection to the landscape using a simple idea of a ramp as garden, as path, as roof and observatory.

The jury was asked to select the fellowship recipient, and also an alternate who would receive the award, if for any reason the initial fellowship recipient was unable to travel.

Our alternate is Laura Squillace: Bolsa Chica Wetlands Center
Living machine scheme in which the center is a wetland system and thoughtful relationships between building elements and sites and a layered study of multiple issues concerning sustainable design. Jury commendation for the high quality of design communications on the first board which uses a narrative sequence of diagrams to express evolution of the building configuration.

Aaron Locke: Catalyst: Winner
This proposal for a floating, multi-directional pavilion used a narrative approach to convey the story of the wetlands through the building form, from the oculus and pool that mapped the proportion of surviving to lost wetlands, to the graphic catalog of bird species superimposed on glass planes, the capability of the platform to rise and fall in response to the level of the water and the undulating transparent and reflective walls of glass that created wavelike in-between spaces that merged organic shapes we associate with nature with the idea of a machine in the landscape.

Aaron’s fellowship will take him to India where he will travel by Indian Railways to observe designed environments influenced by British colonial rule, international Modernism and connections to the work of contemporary Indian architects, impacts of economic growth and wealth accumulation as well as poverty, religious traditions, and experience.

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