AIA St. Louis Scholarship Fund

The AIA St. Louis Scholarship Fund was founded in 1965 to assist students from the greater St. Louis region enrolled in accredited by the National Architecture Accrediting Board (NAAB). Today the AIA St. Louis Scholarship Fund is one of the largest architectural scholarship programs in the country.

Financial support is provided to students entering their third, fourth or fifth year of studies or graduate program in a NAAB-accredited school of architecture, and for whom the St. Louis region is their hometown.

All applications for the AIA St. Louis Scholarship Fund are processed through St. Louis Graduates at www.stlouisgraduates.org.  AIA St. Louis is proud to be a member of the collaborative effort by St. Louis Graduates, a regional effort to encourage and support post secondary education for the St. Louis community.   Applicants will create a file on the site and then indicate the AIA St. Louis Scholarship Fund for their intentions.

The site will begin to accept applications on New Years day  for the upcoming school year (Fall to Spring semesters).   The deadline  for the July 1st.

To apply, click HERE where you will first establish an account in Scholarship Central by completing the general application.  You will then scroll through the list of scholarships to find the AIA St. Louis Scholarship Fund to upload its application. 

Each application will be required to attend a personal (or virtual) interview with the Trustees of the Fund and the interviews will include a portfolio review.

The named AIA St. Louis Scholarship funds are:

• Ralph Ranft Fund   
• George E. Kassabaum Fund 
• Ada & Rex Becker Fund 
• Kenneth Wischmeyer Fund 
• The Masonry Institute, Bricklayers Local No. 1, Mason Contractors Fund 
• Peter Olhausen Fund   
• AIA St. Louis Chapter Fund 
• Eugene J. Mackey III, FAIA Traveling Scholarship Fund - to donate via the website, click HERE.
  

Donations to the funds are also able to be received by check made out to AIA St. Louis Scholarship Fund and mailed to AIA St. Louis, 911 Washington Ave, Ste. 100, St. Louis, MO 63101.  Ensure that you note the specific scholarship fund of your donation. 

The trustees will determine which fund is applicable for each candidate; the applicant does not apply for a particular fund.

Trustees of the AIA St. Louis Scholarship Fund are:

Chair:            Grace Corbin, AIA of Christner Inc.

Secretary:     Karl Grice, FAIA of Grice Group

Treasurer:     John Berendzen, AIA of Fox Architects

Trustee:        Jessica Senne, AIA of Studio Lark

Trustee:        Cameron Strickland, AIA of BSA Lifestructures

The AIA St. Louis Scholarship Fund is an IRS recognized 509(a)(3)..  As such, donations are tax deductible and gifts may be received in care of AIA St. Louis at 911 Washington Avenue, Suite 100, St. Louis, MO 63101 and payable to the AIA St. Louis Scholarship Fund or one of the above named funds.  If you wish to discuss your donation to the AIA St. Louis Scholarship Fund, please call the Chapter Office at 314-621-3484.