23rd Annual Steven C. Ladislaus Memorial Scholarship Recipients Selected

The 2008 recipients of the San Diego Architectural Foundation’s Steven C. Ladislaus Memorial Scholarship have been selected. A $4,000 scholarship has been awarded to Tri (Tim) Quang Do of the Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI-Arc) in Los Angeles, California. An additional $1,000 was awarded to Chelsea Chan Hei, also of SCI-Arc. These two talented students were selected from submissions solicited from nine regional schools of Architecture.

Tri (Tim) Quang Do: summer 2008 graduate thesis

The $4,000 Scholarship was made possible through a generous grant from the national American Institute of Architects/American Architectural Foundation (AIA/AAF). This grant, awarded to the San Diego Architectural Foundation for the third straight year, reinforces the national AIA’s beliefs that the investment to support the education of future architectural professional is a crucial part of its mission.

Tri (Tim) Quang Do: spring 2007 graduate studio

The Steven C. Ladislaus Memorial Scholarship program was created in 1984 following the death of an award-winning and inspirational fellow architect, Steve Ladislaus who died in 1980. Since its inception, the Foundation has awarded more than $31,000 in scholarships to twenty-nine uniquely qualified students who possessed the talent, enthusiasm and dedication to architecture and design that Steve Ladislaus pursued, until his death at age 33.

Tri (Tim) Quang Do: fall 2006 graduate studio

Tax deductible contributions to the Steven C. Ladislaus Memorial Scholarship may be made through the San Diego Architectural Foundation in P. O. Box 122228; San Diego, CA 92112. For additional information about the San Diego Architectural Foundation’s scholarship programs, please visit their website.

Tri (Tim) Quang Do: slide from photography project “sun tunnels”, 2008