Previous Winners of
Royal Oak's Competition in the Architectural Arts

 

1999 Competition

Second Place: Brian M. Finn, BA University of Kansas 1997

Winner: Ostap Rudakevych

Bachelor of Architecture from Carnegie Mellon University 1996

Currently employed by Future Force Design in New York.

Ostap plans to use his award to study the construction methods used in Fenton House, a National Trust Property.

 

1997 Competition

Winner: Thomas M. Felton

Master of Architecture, University of Pennsylvania 1998
Bachelor of Architecture, University of Notre Dame 1991

1998 - Present: Peter Marino Architect, New York

1992-1994 and 1996 - 1998: John Blatteau Associates, Philadelphia PA

1995 - 1996: Mark Hampton, Inc.

1995: Ferguson, Murray and Shamamian Architects, New York

1994 - 1995: Peter Pennoyer Architects

Competition Program: "A Royal Oak Foundation Center in London", designed by David Anthony Easton and William Brockschmidt

Tom Felton used his award to study the development of English town planning.  He concentrated his studies on the concept of "polite society" and its influence on the evolution of domestic architecture in 18th and 19th century England.  Spending most of his time in Bath, he also studied the towns of Oxford, Cambridge and Leeds as well as the great country estates of Blenheim, Kedelston, Castle Howard and Syon.

 

1995 Competition

Honorable Mention: Stephen D. Hamill

Winner: Francis X. Leadon
Master of Architecture, Yale University 1994
Bachelor of Architecture, University of Florida College of Architecture 1991

1994-present: Landscape Designer, Balmori Associates, New Haven, CT

Competition Program: "A Hospice for the Ill", designed by Laurie D. Olin

Francis Leadon used his award to travel in England and Wales to study vernacular rural architecture.  He completed numerous sketches of villages and their architecture and concentrated his studies on Welsh churches.

 

 

1993 Competition

Honorable Mention: Brian White, Portland, OR

Winner: Richard W. Cameron
Master of Architecture: Princeton University 1990
Bachelor of Architecture: University of Toronto 1986

1991: present: Ferguson, Murray and Shamamian Architects, NYC

1990: Charles T. Young Architects NYC

Competition Program: "A Library in a Small Town" by Witold Rybczynski

Richard Cameron used his ROF award to study the work and papers of 19th century architect Charles Robert Cockerell.  Cockerell (1788-1863) was an archaeologist, architect and artist whose career really began when he was appointed Professor of Architecture at the Royal Academy.  Richard visited several buildings designed by Cockerell and transcribed his lecture notes which are in the Royal Academy library and Trinity College, Cambridge