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About the award:

Fundraising is currently underway in establishing the Victoria Rospond Award for Promise in Professional Practice. This Award empowers women graduates from U.S. and Canadian Schools of Architecture through mentorship, networking and financial support so recipients can bring purpose into their careers and encourage positive, world-changing transformation in professional practice.

As a creative individual whose design sensibilities permeated all aspects of her life, Victoria Rospond understood the vital importance of architecture as both a disciplinary pursuit, leveraged to improve the lives of those who use it, and a way of being in the world where she cared deeply about those she worked with and for. She understood practice as a space of real, even radical opportunity for exploration, and possibilities of new modes of working as an architect.

Victoria was an immensely generous person who was committed to fostering the next generation of architects. She mentored countless interns and young architects who worked at CDR Studio Architects, a practice she co-founded in 1996, as well as women who were involved in ArchiteXX, a gender equity organization for women in architecture organization, where she was a founding board member. For Victoria, being an architect was not only about designing and building but also about being involved in the future of the discipline and ensuring that future generations of architects come to understand the importance of an expansive, collaborative, responsive, and engaged profession.

ArchiteXX will oversee the management of the award and each recipient of the Victoria Rospond Award will be chosen by the faculty teaching the professional practice course. We would like the first school that will host this award to be, The Rhode Island School of Design, Victoria’s alma mater to homage to the institution that was foundational for her career. The aspiration for the Victoria Rospond Award is to become a window for women to see that their sense of purpose can carry forward into a practice for improving the world.

In order to provide a $5000 annual award to a promising graduating female student, we are fundraising to raise $50,000. We currently have raised $24,000. We ask that you please help make this award possible through a generous donation. You can either mail us a check or donate through paypal. ArchiteXX is a 501c3 and donations are tax deductible under NY state tax code.