Qualifications
— Richard L. Blinder Award
The Richard L. Blinder Award will be presented biennially by the James
Marston Fitch Charitable Foundation for the best proposal exploring the preservation
of an existing structure, complex of buildings or genre of building type through addition,
renovation or other means. The subject of the submission may be a real project or a polemical exercise;
in either case originality is highly valued. The proposal must demonstrate that it fosters
architectural preservation in the United States.
- The Award is for a sum not to exceed $15,000. It will be granted to an architect
holding a professional degree or a valid license to practice architecture.
- Grants are
awarded only to individuals, not organizations or university-sponsored research projects.
Grants are not awarded for professional fees.
- Applicants must be legal residents or citizens of the United States.
- The tangible end product is to be delivered within 24 months as a paper, lecture, presentation or similar effort suitable for dissemination in an architectural or preservation periodical, a recognized conference, an exhibition, etc.
Please email us with any
questions concerning project eligibility or the application requirements. To consult our past Blinder grants, please go here.