Brown Fellowship Program
Travel Fellowship
Robert S. Brown’ 52 Fellows Program
This travel program was established in 1988 by Mrs. Helen C. Brown in loving memory of her son, Robert S. Brown ʼ52, a 1952 graduate of Rensselaerʼs School of Architecture. The fund is intended to expand the educational opportunities and broaden the cultural base available to Rensselaerʼs architecture students and/or faculty. The program provides travel fellowships to Rensselaer School of Architecture students and faculty.
Goal of the Student Fellowship: The intent of the Brown Fellows Program is to provide a unique opportunity for students within the Rensselaer architecture program to consider architecture as an international discipline with global reach. Through the generous support of our alum Robert S. Brown, students will be able to experience in person the brilliant legacy and traditions of historical and contemporary architecture from around the world that is integral to a proposed research investigation that supports an academic and career trajectory. Offered as a compliment to their education here in the US, this unique travelling fellowship is also intended to provide a multi-cultural experience, in preparation for assuming a leadership position within the discipline in the years ahead.
Past Recipients
2023 Student Fellowship Recipients:
Angelene Applewhite, “Rebuilding a Kingdom at the Foundation: How to Heal the Indigenous Hawaiian Housing Crisis
Through Tradition, Ethnography & Sustainable Design”
Aida Ayuk, “Investigating Perspectives on Livability”
Anish De, “Scars of Strife: Architectural Legacies of the Yugoslav Wars”
2019 Student Fellowship Recipients:
Shelley Warner, ““Understanding the Spatial Poche”
Lindsey Wood, “Scandinavian Aesthetic: Functionality + Minimalism + Beauty”
Robert Nilsen, “Design by Nature”
Madeline Steinmetz, “ARCHipelago”
2019 Faculty Fellowship Recipients:
Prof. Jonas Braasch, “Examining the Relationship of Internal Diversity and Environment”
Prof. Gabrielle Brainard, “City of Wood: Mass Timber in North America.”
Prof. Yael Erel, “Constructing Reflectors”
Prof. Lonn Combs, “Gaudi’s Casa Mila”
2018 Faculty Fellowship Recipients:
Prof. Rhett Russo, “DUNEJARS: Cow Bone & Nano-Inks Under a Dutch Sky”
Dr. Ning Xiang, “Sound Diffractions in Performance Halls”
Prof. Carla Leitao, “Book | Human | Space”