Financial Assistance for Innovative Projects

Exclusively for NC State University College of Design Students and Former Students

Professor Vernon F. Shogren The Vernon F. Shogren Endowment has been established with the NC State Foundation, Inc. to promote unique study, and scholarship into proposed endeavors by the students and faculty, both former and active, and those with interest in the NC State University College of Design. The 2009 Vernon F. Shogren Endowment Call for Entries The Vernon F. Shogren Endowment is seeking proposals from eligible designers and students to investigate the affect the concepts, methods, techniques and tools that designers employ have on the results of the design process. Multiple awards up to the amount of $12,000.00 are available. An award fund in the amount of Twelve Thousand Dollars ($12,000.00) is available to assist the recipient(s) in the completion of the investigation(s). The investigations may involve research, construction of theoretical proofs, or activities of scientific experimentation. The final product shall be in the form of a publication. The Award Committee reserves the right to make no award(s). The Proposal Should State: A. The Project Objective: Describe the aspect of the idea to be investigated; who might find the results useful; where and when it might be relevant, and other relevant information. B. The method, system, or format to be used, developmental strategy employed; resources to be used or relied upon. C. Goal in terms of form or appearance of final product; how you propose to interpret “publishable form”. D. Biographic information: Name, Address, telephone, email address, academic degrees or programs, association with NC State University College of Design, recent occupation or academic status. Proposal Format: Proposals shall be limited to ten 8.5” x 11” pages formatted as a PDF document. Deadline: Proposals will be received until midnight, July 1, 2009 at the following email address: mark@williardferm.com Include the words “Shogren Endowment Submittal” in the subject line. Questions regarding the endowment may be submitted to the same address. Announcement of Awards: Recipient(s) of the 2009 Vernon F. Shogren Endowment Awards will be notified by email. Winning proposals will be posted on this website. Terms and Conditions: 1. The awards are not grants, but are intended as financial assistance in the pursuit of a project. 2. Projects shall be educational or scientific, rather than performance oriented (as in a competition). 3. Projects shall be completed within twelve month’s time from the first award payment. 4. Award payment will be 20% at the beginning and 80% upon completion of the project. 5. The final product shall be submitted in publishable form, written and/or illustrated in a format suitable for color printing on 8 1/2 x 11 paper. An electronic media version shall also be submitted in PDF format. One printed copy shall be provided for inclusion in the Design Library. 6. Any former or current student of the North Carolina State University College of Design (formerly “School of Design”) is eligible to apply. Students and former students of all design disciplines of the College of Design are encouraged to apply. 7. Recipients must agree, if requested, to make a verbal presentation of their project at the College of Design. 8. Recipients will not receive an additional stipend for the expenses related to the verbal presentation or the expenses of printing the library copy of the final product. The Vernon F. Shogren Endowment Board: Wesley Coble T.C. Howard Edward Williams Mark Williard The Vernon F. Shogren Award Committee (Jury) Monk Askew Laurin B. Askew, Jr. FAIA [Monk} BArch 1965 NC State Monk is President and Owner of MONK LLC, a small multi - disciplinary design consulting firm in Baltimore , Maryland with an emphasis on all facets of retail and mixed – use design. Previous to forming MONK LLC in 1999, Monk was Vice President / Director of Design of The Rouse Company for 30 years where he orchestrated many of the country’s important urban mixed use and retail centers. He was personally responsible for conceptual design, architect selection, architectural contracts, design management and selling the concepts to city agencies, citizen groups, investors, anchor stores and colleagues. His vision formed the fundamental framework for the design of each building or complex and was the design client for all projects of The Rouse Company. Kurt Eichenberger Kurt Eichenberger BED 1977 NC State MArch 1982 MIT Kurt Eichenberger is the principal and founder of a 25 year old architectural firm in Raleigh North Carolina. Areas of practice include adaptive reuse, historic preservation, and the planning and design of Court facilities. Kurt has been a member of the Design Review committee of the Raleigh Historic District Commission for 18 years. He and his wife Donna have one daughter age 12. Kurt also plays fiddle, mandolin and tenor banjo in an old time string band. BED '78 NC State Kevin Hart Kevin Hart BEDA 1973 M.Arch (Yale School of Architecture) 1979 Principal, KEVIN HART ARCHITECTURE since founding the firm in 2005. We do schools, commercial buildings, multi-family residential, and bridge designs from our studio in San Francisco. Principal, Gensler, 1995 - 2005 Partner, SMWM, 1990 - 1994 Senior Associate, Cesar Pelli & Associates, 1979 - 1990 I was taught, and mentored, and inspired, by Vernon Shogren at NCSU; he showed me how to think about architecture, and how it could be intellectually rich. His clear formulations and thoughtful diagrams are still part of my everyday design process. (I remember him confiding his frustration, in an unguarded moment near graduation, thus: "Students! You punch them in here, and they just pop out over there!" ) Jeff Schoellkopf Jeff Schoellkopf, AIA, LEED AP Principal, JSD and The Design Group Warren VT BED '78 NC State