Douglas Haskell Award for Student Journals

Single or multiple awards up to $3,000.

The Douglas Haskell Award for Student Journals was founded to encourage student journalism on architecture, planning, and related subjects and to foster regard for intelligent criticism among future professionals. The award is not intended as a prize for individuals, but is instead meant to support the ongoing publication of student-edited journals whose subject matter could include architectural design, history, and theory.

Any journal (online or print) published by a school of architecture, landscape architecture, or planning in the United States that is edited by students is eligible. The publication must have been produced in the current or previous school year.

This award was founded to encourage student journalism on architecture, planning, or related subject and to foster regard for intelligent criticism among future professionals. The award is not intended as a prize for individuals, but is instead meant to support the ongoing publication of student-edited journals whose subject matter could include architectural design, history, or theory.

A complete application includes the Student Editor and Faculty Advisor application forms, with their E-signatures verified via email, and a PDF of the journal. Hard copies of the journal are optional. Applications are due by 5:00pm EST on the due date.

Application Forms:

• Student Editor Form
  • Contact Information: The form must include information for the student editor(s), the signature of the main editor, and the title and date of the publication.
  • Statement of Purpose: Entries include a concise statement (500 words max) describing the purpose of the publication, its intended audience, and the school and degree program that the entrants are enrolled in.
  • Attachments: A PDF of the journal (10 MB max) must be included along with five images of a printed journal, or screenshots of a digital journal. A second PDF larger than 10 MB may also be submitted. This second PDF must be zipped.
• Faculty Advisor Form
  • Contact Information: The form must include contact information for the faculty advisor(s), the main faculty advisor’s signature, and the title and date of the publication.

Journal
The journal may focus on architecture, planning, or related subjects. The publication’s subject matter may include architectural design, history, and theory. Please submit a PDF of the journal and five (5) photos of the journal for reference as part of the application form.

Note:

• There is no entry fee.
• Please submit a PDF of the journal and five (5) photos of the printed journal for reference as part of the Student Editor application form. Hard copies of the journal are not accepted.

Application Forms
The Student Editor and Faculty Advisor application forms should be submitted via the two separate online forms.

Journal
The journal must be submitted as a PDF document (10 MB max) as an attachment in the Student Editor application form. An additional PDF larger than 10 MB may also be submitted. This second PDF MUST be zipped. The PDF journal should be saved with the following name:

Haskell Journal – Journal Title
[Example: Haskell Journal – Architectural Record]

Notification
Applicants will be notified by the end of August.

Eligibility

1. My school is located outside of New York State. Is our student-edited architecture journal eligible for the Douglas Haskell Award?
Yes, the Douglas Haskell Award for Student Journals is open to student-edited architectural journals nationwide.

2. Are online or e-journals eligible?
Yes, online and e-journals are eligible.

Application Submission

1. Can applicants submit a PDF journal that is larger than 10 MB?
Applicants must submit a version of the journal in PDF format that does not exceed 10 MB. An additional PDF larger than 10 MB may be submitted if necessary.

2. Do applications need to be post-marked by the deadline?
Hard copies of the application are no longer accepted.

3. Can I hand-deliver my application?
Hard copies of the application are no longer accepted.

4. What is the schedule of notification?
Applicants will be notified by the end of August.

General

1. Does the Center for Architecture sponsor individual students pursuing an architectural education in need of financial aid?
Center for Architecture supports students through our scholarship program. At this time it is not possible for Center for Architecture to give financial aid above and beyond this program. For more information, visit our website’s Scholarships and Grants section.

The Haskell Award for Student Journalism was established by Helen Lacey Haskell, the wife of architectural journalist and editor Douglas Haskell, in the late 1980s.

Its purpose is to perpetuate intelligent writing about design as a means to encourage the development of architects and allied professionals.

Douglas Putnam Haskell was born in Monastir, Yugoslavia in 1899, the son of American missionaries to the Balkans. He graduated from Oberlin College in 1923, majoring in Political Science and minoring in Art. Haskell spent his entire career as a journalist and editor. He was an associate editor for Architectural Record from 1929-1930, architecture critic for The Nation from 1930-1942, associate editor again of Architectural Record from 1943-1949, and, finally,  editor of Architectural Forum from 1949 until his mandatory retirement in 1964.

Architectural Forum was very influential under his leadership, being the only magazine to take a stand against the demolition of Penn Station.  Haskell personally used the influence of Architectural Forum to help stop the demolition of Grand Central Station.

Though not an architect himself, he was admitted as an honorary member to the American Institute of Architects. You can read his editorials and correspondence with architects such as Marcel Breuer, Philip Johnson, Ed Bacon, and Mies Van der Rohe at Columbia University’s Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library.

2023
Divergence in Architectural Research, Vol. 2 — Georgia Institute of Technology
Room One Thousand, Issue 11 ‘Sediment’ — University of California, Berkeley
URBAN Magazine, ‘Fluidity’ — Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation

2022
Telesis: Volume 4 Isolation — University of Oklahoma Gibbs College of Architecture
Agora Journal of Urban Planning and Design: Volume 16 Participation — University of Michigan Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning
Paprika!: Volume 7 — Yale University School of Architecture
PLAT 10.0: Behold — Rice University School of Architecture

2021
Plat 9.0 — Rice University School of Architecture
Infra-Structures — Northeastern University School of Architecture
Carolina Planning Journal — NC Chapel Hill
PATIO — Columbia GSAPP
PLOT Volume 9 — CCNY School of Architecture

2020
Prometheus: Journal of the PhD Program in Architecture — Illinois Institute of Technology
ISSUE XXVI — The University of Texas at Austin
The BAC Journal — Boston Architectural College
The Charrette — Tulane University

2019
Telesis — University of Oklahoma

Honorable Mentions
PLAT — Rice University
Room One Thousand — University of California, Berkeley

2018
Dichotomy — University of Detroit Mercy
PLOT — City College of New York
Agora — University of Michigan

Honorable Mentions
Litorum Journal — University of Minnesota
Paprika! — Yale University

2017
OBL/QUE — Harvard University

Honorable Mentions
Common Ground — Northeastern University
Agora — University of Michigan

2016
sofA — Woodbury University

Honorable Mentions
Plot — City College of New York
The Thinking Architect— University of North Carolina at Charlotte

2015
Issues — Washington University

2014
Panorama — University of Pennsylvania Department of City and Regional Planning

2013
Fresh Meat — University of Illinois Chicago

2012
Fresh Meat — University of Illinois Chicago

Honorable Mentions
Dimensions — University of Michigan
Urban — Columbia University

2011
Contexture — Louisiana State University

Honorable Mention
Root — University of Colorado at Denver

2010
There — University of Minnestoa

2009
Informality — City College of New York

Honorable Mention
Contexture — Louisiana State University