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2005 Arcus Awards Program

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The 2005 Arcus awards program distributed awards of up to $5,000 each to five recipients for projects that addressed one of the following topics:

Exploring Domestic Arrangements. The Arcus Endowment seeks to foster design activity and research that examines diverse definitions of home and family. Awards will be made for studies or proposals that explore innovative arrangements for same-sex couples (with or without children), extended and/or non-traditional families, and other forms of collective living environments that present alternatives to the spaces and cultures of the heterosexual nuclear family. Cross-cultural and historical investigations are encouraged. Built works of outstanding merit may also be submitted to the Arcus Endowment for recognition of design excellence.
Transforming Design Education and Professional Practice. Awards will be made to support critical initiatives that recognize or enable the activities of the LGBTQ community in design education and professional practice. Funding is available for awareness seminars, teach-ins, educational pamphlets, and posters that combat homophobia and foster role models for emerging practitioners and educators. Requests will also be considered to fund research into innovative forms of practice and pedagogy.
Supporting Critical Initiatives in Design. Awards will be made to support design research by students or practicing professionals that addresses the relationship between LGBTQ issues and the built environment. Submissions may take the form of critical writing, speculative design inquiry, or actual commissions, and range in scale from furniture design to landscape architecture and urban planning proposals. Requests for funds to support creative initiatives in public policy and planning guidelines will also be considered.

2005 Award Recipients

GLBT Historical Society of Northern California: Digital Collection Outreach
Leonardo Diaz-Borioli: Louis Barragan's Bachelor Spaces
Susan Stryker and Victor Silverman: Transgender Spaces in the Tenderloin, San Francisco

2005 Arcus Endowment Lecture

The 2005 lecture consisted of a presentation and panel discussion entitled, "The Importance of Remembering: The National AIDS Memorial Design Competition." Panelists were competition jurors Walter Hood, Professor of Landscape Architecture, UC Berkeley; Reed Kroloff, Dean of the School of Architecture, Tulane University; and Ken Ruebush, Co-Chair, National AIDS Memorial. The moderator was Roddy Creedon, Adjunct Professor of Architecture, UC Berkeley, and Arcus Endowment Board Member. The event was co-sponsored by the Arcus Endowment and the College of Environmental Design. A concurrent exhibition of selected competition entries from the National AIDS Memorial Design Competition was held in Wurster Hall.

2005 Arcus Endowment Advisory Board

Gary R. Brown
Architect, Professor Emeritus of Architecture and Assistant Dean of the College of Environmental Design at UC Berkeley

Beatriz Colomina
Professor of Architecture, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey

Roddy Creedon
Architect, San Francisco, and Adjunct Professor of Architecture, UC Berkeley

Greig Crysler
Program Director, Arcus Endowment, Assistant Professor of Architecture, UC Berkeley

Carolyn Dinshaw
Executive Director, Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality, New York University, New York, New York

Gail Dubrow
Professor of Architecture, Landscape Architecture, Urban Design and Planning at the University of Washington, at Seattle

Harrison Fraker
Dean and William Wurster Professor, College of Environmental Design, UC Berkeley

Joe Garrett
Writer, Kensington, California

Robert Alexander González
Assistant Professor, School of Architecture, Tulane University, and the founding editor of Aula: Architecture & Urbanism is Las Americas

Paul Groth
Professor of Architecture, UC Berkeley

Hal Hayes
Architect, New York, New York

Frederick Hertz
Attorney and Activist, Oakland, California

Ralph Hexter
Dean of Arts and Humanities, College of Letters and Science, UC Berkeley

Patti Intrieri
Architect, Cambridge, Massachusetts

Eric Jirgens
Interior Designer, Birmingham, Michigan

Caren Kaplan
Chair and Associate Professor, Department of Women's Studies, UC Berkeley

Kate Kendell
Executive Director, National Center for Lesbian Rights, San Francisco, California

Moira Kenney
Urban Planner and Author, Berkeley, California

Reed Kroloff
Editor-in-Chief, Architecture Magazine, New York, New York

Waverly B. Lowell
Curator, College of Environmental Design Archives, UC Berkeley

Michael Lucey
Associate Professor, Departments of French and Comparative Literature, UC Berkeley

Stanley Saitowitz
Architect, San Francisco, and Professor of Architecture, UC Berkeley

Jorge Silvetti
Chair, Graduate School of Design, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts

Jon Stryker
Founder and President, Arcus Foundation, Kalamazoo, Michigan

Susan Stryker
Executive Director, Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender Historical Society of Northern California, San Francisco, California

Henry Urbach
Independent Scholar, Gallery Owner and Architect, New York, New York

Gretchen Till
M. Arch Student, Queers in Environmental Design Representative, UC Berkeley