J.B.C. Watkins Award: Architecture
Fabio Lima
Photographer(s): Yixin Cao
Latest winner
Fabio Lima
Fabio Lima is a graduate student and research fellow at Pratt Institute, in New York City, USA. His work explores the social archaeology of queer spaces by mobilizing the tools of historic preservation. Through place-based research and architectural criticism, he rehabilitates narratives overwritten by monocultural discourses. In collaboration with Dr. Harriet Harriss, his current research focuses on non-institutional spaces of queer end-of-life care during the AIDS crisis in New York in the 1980s and 1990s.
Fabio studied architecture at the Université de Montréal, in Quebec. His work has been supported by the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada and the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts.
The award
The J.B.C. Watkins Fellowship: Architecture is offered to an individual who has completed a bachelor’s or master’s degree in architecture in Canada and who will pursue postgraduate studies in another country, ideally Denmark, Norway, Sweden or Iceland.
Background
This award is funded by a bequest from the late John B.C. Watkins.
Additional information
architecture-prizes@canadacouncil.ca
1-800-263-5588 (toll-free) or 613-566-4414, ext. 6004
Deadline
October 5, 2025
Annual competition
Prize amount
$5,000
Application-based
For the upcoming prize deadline, applications will be submitted through the online portal, opening in the summer of 2025.
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