ADAM Architecture’s 2025 Travel Scholarship

The prize – open to all UK and international architecture students from Part I undergraduate up to three years after Part II qualification – offers a single £2,000 award to support overseas research in architecture, architectural technology and urban design.

Previous winners of the award – which was set up in 2005 and aims to increase access to international travel for students who wish to develop their current research or explore new areas of study – have travelled to Italy, Malta, Japan, Cuba, France, Belgium, Sicily, Iran, Algeria and Ethiopia.

ADAM Architecture design director and travel scholarship judge, Robbie Kerr – who was awarded the scholarship himself while working for the practice during his degree course at Edinburgh University – said: ‘Our Travel Scholarship has been formative for many highly skilled, young architects working internationally. I still draw on my research today.’

The scholarship was set up in 2005 to demonstrate the company’s ‘consistent and enthusiastic investment’ in young talent. Previous winners have included Evan Oxland who studied historic Japanese stone-masonry patterns and technology (pictured) and Sam Little who travelled to Iran to study a number of the Seljuk towers and minarets in its central provinces.

Submissions will judged on their ability to deliver a ‘significant piece of original research work that will comprise an outstanding contribution to architectural knowledge.’ Applications may cover any stylistic interest from ‘contemporary architecture, to traditional and everything in between.’

The judging panel will include ADAM Architecture directors along with external judges from business or academia. Applications must include a 500-word proposal, a CV and a portfolio of work featuring up to 20 images.