ADAM Architecture Travel Scholarship 2025 winner announced

After receiving many outstanding applications, we are delighted to announce that the winner of the 2025 ADAM Architecture Travel Scholarship is Alex Hulton.

Alex completed his Part I at the University of Cambridge last year and is currently gaining experience at a classical architecture firm in London. With a strong foundation in traditional design and a keen interest in architectural history, he hopes to further his career by combining practical experience with original research.

His winning proposal, Between Empire and Independence: The Legacy of Lutyens in Interwar New Delhi, will explore how the classical language developed by Edwin Lutyens and Herbert Baker was reshaped by a younger generation of architects working in New Delhi during the political and cultural shifts of the 1930s and 1940s. His research will investigate the fragmentary, complex narratives embedded in the city’s architecture, particularly the often-overlooked works of the Indo-British School, and how these designs navigated the contested ground between Empire and independence.

Speaking about his research, Alex said “These buildings remain comparatively under-researched, which makes the opportunity to visit and experience them in situ especially valuable and compelling for me. They offer a rich case study not only in how architecture is negotiated between the shifting intersections of empire, nationhood and modernity, but also as inventive and inspiring classical designs, thoughtfully adapted to their surroundings. I am very grateful for the support of the ADAM Architecture travel scholarship and look forward to the research ahead, and to encountering these remarkable buildings first-hand, within the evolving fabric of the city today.”

The ADAM Architecture Travel Scholarship, founded in 2005, offers a £2,000 award to support original architectural research through travel. The scholarship forms part of ADAM Architecture’s continued commitment to investing in young talent and expanding access to research opportunities for architecture students.

This year’s panel comprised Robbie Kerr (design partner), Ian Lawrence, and Rossana Miles (associate directors) from ADAM Architecture, with Nico Jackson (consultant architectural historian). The panel was impressed by Alex's proposal which they thought full of potential to illuminate a rich but underexplored area of study.

Robbie, who was awarded the scholarship himself while working for the practice during his degree at The University of Edinburgh, says: “Since its inception 20 years ago, our travel scholarship has served as a richly informative opportunity for many highly skilled young architects. The greatest source of creative inspiration comes from travel; the people and the places they build, how they differ and converge despite great geographical, climatic and cultural distance. I still draw on my experiences during my travels to Cuba on the travel scholarship, identifying the political, economic and cultural factors that have helped shape the island’s vernacular.”

We congratulate Alex Hulton on this well-deserved recognition and look forward to seeing the insights that emerge from his research journey later this year.