UNM School of Architecture + Planning & Places Journal Announce Committee of Jurors for “On the Brinck | Places Prize”
September 30, 2024
This summer the University of New Mexico School of Architecture + Planning (SA+P) in collaboration with the Places Journal announced the “On the Brinck | Places Prize” to support innovative and ambitious public scholarship on the American Southwest. This week each organization named jurors to serve on the prize committee.
The jurors representing UNM SA+P and Places Journal are as follows:
- Catherine Harris, Associate Professor, Landscape Architecture, UNM
- Elspeth Iralu, Assistant Professor, Community and Regional Planning, UNM
- Albert Lopez, Assistant Professor, Architecture and Community and Regional Planning, UNM
- Nancy Levinson, Editor & Executive Director, Places Journal
- Frances Richard, Senior Editor, Places Journal
The winner of the On the Brinck | Places Prize will receive an honorarium of $7,500 to research and write a major work of public scholarship for publication in Places Journal and present a related public lecture at the SA+P at UNM. Since announcing the opportunity, there has been a robust response from applicants. The submission period closed in late August and committee members are in the process of reviewing applications, with plans for the selected winner to be announced later this year.
ABOUT THE COLLABORATION: SA+P’s On the Brinck initiative honors the legacy of John Brinckerhoff Jackson, a prolific writer and influential figure in the development of the field of cultural landscape studies, merging analysis of natural, built, and human landscapes. On the Brinck’s existing programs recognize authors who contribute new knowledge and perspectives to the fields of architecture, landscape architecture, planning, and urban design. Places Journal features original scholarship and journalism addressing critical issues in these disciplines, with writers, designers, and artists “responding to the profound challenges of our time: environmental health and social inequity, climate change, resource scarcity, human migration, rapid technological innovation, and the erosion of the public sphere.”
