Through our partnership with the Scholarship Foundation of Santa Barbara, AFSB is fortunate and pleased to support exceptional students pursuing careers in architecture.
Students interested in applying for a scholarship should visit the Scholarship Foundation of Santa Barbara for applications and additional information.
An annual Scholarship Reception and Awards Ceremony is held each year in June at an architecturally inspired location to celebrate and honor the students who have received scholarship awards that year. This year, our Scholarship Reception and Awards Ceremony was held on June 14th at the Acheson House. The Acheson House is the home and garden of the Architectural Foundation of Santa Barbara.
In 1983, the Architectural Foundation of Santa Barbara (AFSB) established a Scholarship Grants program to focus on the profession of architecture with a generous donation from major founder and Santa Barbara Architect, Pierre Claeyssens. Since that time new funders have joined to increase the funding and yearly grants. To date, over $1,300,000 has been given to graduates of Santa Barbara County high schools studying in the field of Architecture.
The annual awards generally exceed $50,000 and distributed to 15-20 students. AFSB partners with the Scholarship Foundation of Santa Barbara. Along with maintaining our scholarship funds, the Scholarship Foundation takes charge of the application, notification, and awarding process based on AFSB’s directive criteria for each scholarship category.
AFSB encourages and embraces the scholarship recipients to be involved and serve their communities as they pursue their careers and has been delighted when some return to Santa Barbara and join the AFSB team as program volunteers and Directors on our Board.
Anyone interested in contributing to the Scholarships or creating a new Scholarship should contact us for more information.
AFSB Scholarship Fund
Lutah Maria Riggs Fund
Santa Barbara Beautiful Fund
The Sustainability Project Fun
Ensberg Jacobs Design Art In Architecture Grant
Additional Scholarship Award:
Ensberg Jacobs Design Art & Architecture
Additional Scholarship Awarded:
Ensberg Jacobs Design Art & Architecture
Additional Scholarship Award:
The Sustainability Project
Additional Scholarship Awarded:
Santa Barbara Beautiful
One of the great pleasures of our community is to applaud and reward students who are dedicated to the pursuit of degrees in architecture, design, and planning. While we would normally host a special occasion to celebrate their achievements and future goals, this year, like last year, we were unable to gather together.
In preparation for our 2021 Scholarship Reception celebration, we asked leaders in the community to sponsor this year’s event. Several of them answered this call. These funds will now be directed to next year’s event.
To our scholarship recipients (above), we are sorry not to be able to congratulate you in person. We hope your studies are going well, and that we might see you at next year’s event!
We want to thank all of our 2021 Scholarship Reception sponsors for your support, and we look forward to gathering with you at the 2022 Reception next spring!
