The 2009 Wise Earth prize was recently awarded to Tatiana Ulyanov a 3rd year architecture student at Curtin University, Perth, Western Australia. This prize is $500 AUD, a design manual authored by Garry Baverstock and Sam Paolino and the opportunity to take a year off to work in Ecotect-Architects’ office. The apprenticeship, if taken up, is recognized by the School as fulfilling the student’s practical experience obligations as part of the Master’s degree.

Tatiana (left) being awarded her prize by senior academic Sarah McGann

This prize was first awarded about 10 years ago and the intention was to reward students who took a solid interest in architectural science subjects and were proficient in applying passive solar and sustainability principles to their design programs generally.

This year’s winner impressed the independent academic panel with her commitment, ability, and intent to be a noteworthy sustainable architect in her future career.

Director of Wise Earth P/L, Garry Baverstock was particularly pleased with the result this year especially with the deadly consequences of Climate Change starting to affect the consciousness of the younger generation. ‘It was encouraging to see that the prize was being greatly appreciated and starting to inspire the next generation of architects’ said Garry at a recent meeting with the student and her academic mentor Lara McIntosh (a recent graduate of the MSc in Environmental Architecture attained at Murdoch University).

For those unaware, Wise Earth P/L is the parent company of solar-e.com. If the results continue to be worthy of this award, the intention is to increase the value of the prize in the coming years.

Wise Earth P/L is interested in all universities even though Garry’s main academic/advisory role is as an Adjunct Professor at Murdoch University. He is also investigating a Wise Earth Research scholarship scheme for collaborative research between universities through the University of Western Australia.

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