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2012 Curry Stone Design Prize News - April 19, 2012

In January the Curry Stone Foundation and Advisors met, reviewed 400 nominations, and selected...

CURRY STONE DESIGN PRIZE AT HARVARD - November 21, 2011

The Curry Stone Design Prize celebrated its three 2011 winners with a two-day festival at...

2011 Curry Stone Design Prize Winners Announced - October 14, 2011

Bend, OR (October 4, 2011)—The 2011 Curry Stone Design Prize Winners were announced today with...

In the News

  • All Africa - March 12, 2012
    Rwanda: Three Local NGOs Honoured for Promoting Women
  • Architectural Record - March 1, 2012
    Taiwanese architect and 2011 Curry Stone Prize winner Hsieh Ying-Chun helps a Chinese village rebuild for the better after an earthquake, using local expertise and materials.
  • Harvard Business Review - February 17, 2012
    How One CEO Grows Her Business with Feeling
  • National Geographic - November 30, 2011
    From Smart Phones to Smart Farming: Indigenous Knowledge Sharing in Tanzania
  • The East Architects Newspaper - October 19, 2011
    Prized Design

2008 Winners

Luyanda Mphahlwa

2008 Curry Stone Design Grand Prize Winner

Luyanda Mphahlwa is the creative force behind MMA Architects, a firm on the vanguard of a new wave of designers that is reshaping and reenvisioning South Africa’s post-apartheid architectural landscape. As one of the few black-owned architecture firms in the country, MMA is pioneering is a new style of architecture that integrates and elevates African-inspired design in both rural and urban settings.
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Antonio Scarponi

2008 Curry Stone Design Prize Winner

Antonio Scarponi is an architect whose interdisciplinary projects use elements from architecture, multimedia arts and design to “jam” the conventional social order of contemporary society. His work, which transforms public space and everyday objects into catalysts for public dialogue, both reflects and interrogates today’s global community by illuminating our shared humanity as well as the socio-political lines that divide us.
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Marjetica Potrč

2008 Curry Stone Design Prize Winner

Marjetica Potrč is an artist and architect who works with local communities to devise sustainable solutions for quality-of-life issues affecting people in informal cities. She has spent months in the Western Balkans and the barrios of Caracas, Venezuela, among many other places, working closely with residents and using existing materials to create designs that improve living conditions in
substantial ways. Her work is driven by her belief that, “Citizens are the ones who make the city.”
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Shawn Frayne

2008 Curry Stone Design Prize Winner

Shawn Frayne is an entrepreneur and the inventor of the world’s first non-turbine wind-powered generator, a new technology that has enormous potential to help people in poor communities power lamps, keep small vaccine refrigerators cool, and charge cell phones for relatively little cost.
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Wes Janz

2008 Curry Stone Design Prize Winner

Wes Janz is an architect and associate professor of architecture at Ball State University whose practice and teachings focus on the transformative potential of “leftover spaces,” the slum dwellings, squatter towns and refugee settlements that house 1 billion of the world’s poor. For Janz, these impoverished sites are also living testaments to human resourcefulness and ingenuity: the shelters built from detritus and recycled materials possess a utilitarian beauty wrought of necessity. According to Janz, these “informal pioneers of global urbanism” have much to teach contemporary professional architects who have heeded “the same voices, the same pieces of architecture, and the same logic systems for too long.” As the demand for safe, low-cost shelter grows around the world, Janz argues, global citizen-architects have an important role to play.
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