Award Description
The School of Architecture, University of
Hawaii at Manoa in cooperation with the Architects Regional Council Asia
(ARCASIA), sponsors the Kenneth F. Brown Asia-Pacific Culture and
Architecture Design Award Program. It is named in honor of the eminent
architect, humanitarian and descendent of Hawaiian ali'i
Kenneth F.
Brown and awards $25,000 cash prize every two years to select buildings in
Asia and the Pacific region. The three cycles of this Award Program
have attracted close to 200 projects and awarded 8 winners and selected 14
Honorable Mentions. The School of Architecture has received the
Graham Foundation Grant to publish the award-winning projects of the first
two cycles and plans to expand the program in 2002 by creating a special
Chairman’s Award for the international promotion of architecture in
Hawaii.
Award Purpose
The Kenneth F. Brown Architecture Award honors
contemporary architecture in Asia and the Pacific Region that
successfully balance the spiritual and material aspects in designing an
environment that is in harmony with its natural and cultural setting. It
aims to promote the development of humane environments in this vast and
multi-cultural region and to develop an archive of contemporary
Asia-Pacific architecture for educational and research purposes. It
celebrates the location of Hawaii as the 'meeting place' of the pacific
and has brought together a distinguished panel of jurors from Japan, India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Thailand, and the mainland USA.
Award Program Chair: Dr. Samia Rab
Awarded the Graham Foundation Grant
in 1999 for
the publication of the 1995 and 1998 award
programs.
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