Bachelor graduates at PBSA win "BDA Masters" study prizes

(sf) The NRW branch of the Society of German Architects (BDA) awarded its BDA Masters study prize this year for the second time. The BDA wants to provide an incentive with this prize for particularly gifted graduates on architecture and urban planning bachelor courses to follow on with a masters course. Outstanding bachelor graduates at universities in North Rhine-Westphalia in the disciplines of architecture and urban planning can compete for the prize upon nomination by their dean. The winners receive prize money of 2,000 Euro, although this is linked to taking up a masters course.

Two bachelor graduates from the Peter Behrens School of Architecture (PBSA), the Faculty of Architecture at Düsseldorf University of Applied Sciences, were able to win prizes: Phillipp Bilke for his work entitled "Hombroich School with Bus Stop" – the work was supervised by professors Jochen Schuster and Oliver Kruse - and Alexandra Boruta for her project "[IM]PULSE A 40". Her work was overseen by professors Anton Markus Pasing and Peter Andres. The delighted winners accepted their "BDA Masters" prizes during the award ceremony on 2nd December at Münster School of Architecture (MSA). 19 pieces of work were submitted from across the region.

Alexandra and Phillip won through in the wide-ranging, high quality field of applicants with two completely different architectural approaches. The pair will be presenting their work together with the other three prize winners (RWTH Aachen, Bochum University and Ostwestfalen-Lippe University) over the coming weeks in MSA in Münster. "Alongside many other prizes, this result manifests the high level of accomplishment and the quality of teaching at the Peter Behrens School of Architecture", declared Prof. Anton Markus Pasing.