The Prince of Wales's Graduate Fellowship Programme
in sustainable architecture & urbanism

There is a global skills shortage in urban design and green architecture. In response to this shortage, The Prince’s Foundation for the Built Environment has established a Graduate Fellowship to meet the need for the next generation of architects and designers who will evolve traditional architecture and urbanism in response to the global climate and urbanisation challenges. We believe that comprehensive and practical action is needed to train designers who can evolve traditional approaches to planning and designing in response to our contemporary ecological crisis

The two-year paid fellowship involves placements at The Prince’s Foundation in London and with committed practitioners in the United Kingdom.

The programme begins with a three-week residential summer school, based next year in the Scottish Highlands. This unique event will provide an introduction to the holistic approach to planning, designing and building practised at The Foundation, and provide an intensive course in key skills such as drawing, painting, designing, construction and the implementation of traditional urbanism. The Fellows will then be attached to departments of The Foundation and work within one of the three, multidisciplinary Projects teams of urban designers, architects and facilitators, promoting and implementing traditional urbanism, and will participate in Enquiries by Design (a unique, practical tool for engaging partners in a design-led process) and two major educational events. Fellows will also work on research projects, help to produce major events and write and produce reports and design studies. Fellows will be exposed to many of the world’s leading urbanists, traditional architects and transport reformers through a weekly masterclass.

From August 2010, the Fellows will be seconded for one year to an appropriate architectural practice. During that summer, they will also be expected to spend a week at the residential summer school, sharing their expertise through teaching craft students and architects how to apply traditional building techniques to architectural processes and urban interventions.

The Graduate Fellowship commences in June 2009 and attracts an annual salary of £20,000.

Application criteria

Applicants must have completed a first degree (or Part I) in any of the following:

• Architecture
• Planning or urban policy
• Urban design
• Landscape design
• Engineering
• Surveying

Applications for the 2009 Graduate Fellowship Programme are now closed.

To be added to the mailing list for details of the 2010 applications, please contact:

E education@princes-foundation.org