Radoslav Zuk Travel Award in Architecture
To honour the teaching career of Emeritus Professor Radoslav Zuk (BArch 1956), Michel Broz (BArch 1987) and Isabelle Jodoin (BEng 1986) have created an endowment to fund a travel award to be offered to one or more undergraduate students in the School of Architecture undertaking an exchange semester at a university outside of Canada recognized by the Student Exchange & Study Abroad Office. It is expected that the first recipient will be awarded in the 2020-2021 academic year.
The Radoslav Zuk Travel Award in Architecture ‎has been established in recognition of Prof. Zuk's important contributions to the quality of teaching by stimulating curiosity through travel and by demanding intellectual rigour at all times. As a student of architecture, Broz was greatly influenced by Prof. Zuk and remembers him whenever he tackles a difficult architectural problem‎. He is a partner at and a member of the American Society of Healthcare Engineering.
At the Annual Philanthropists and Award-Winning Students Reception on Wednesday 6 April 2016 in the Macdonald Engineering Building Lobby, in a speech entitled “Why create a student award in the name of Professor Radoslav Zuk?” Broz told the assembled crowd, with reference to Prof. Zuk, “His European upbringing, rigorous approach to design based on the various elements that compose and create architecture by assembling them on a foundation of more rational, common-sense reasons and principles, led to the path that I now follow in my daily work, whether in the writing of a proposal, the design of a major building, or even the collection of fees from a client. Creativity based on a rigorous approach is always present in my mind, and Prof. Zuk helped me to build and maintain that attitude early in my career and right up to the present day.”
