Second round of grants issued for the Endangered Wooden Architecture Project

We are excited to present 15 new projects that have received an EWAP Grant in 2023! As in previous years, competition was very high, with many outstanding applications from across the globe. After a rigorous review process EWAP has awarded eight large grants that will conduct research for two years and seven small grants that undertake a one year research project. Many thanks to all the reviewers who are a huge help in assessing these projects. 

It is encouraging to see so many applications responding to the need to safeguard these endangered wooden structures. All our projects aim to promote local collaboration, communication and respect and we look forward to watching them progress through the coming years. 

This means that we have now funded 28 projects in 19 countries, recording 575 structures! 

Drum Tower in Dong architecture, Guangxi 
(Ting Wen, 2021, DOI: 10.1088/1742-6596/1744/3/032239)

Here is a list of this year’s successful projects (read more about them here)

• Documenting Freetown's Krio Board Houses, Sierra Leone
• Documenting the Endangered Wooden Architecture of Colonial "Lagos" Railway Infrastructure in Ebute-Meta Railway Compound, Nigeria
• Documenting the Vernacular Architecture of Urhobo, Nigeria
• Investigation on the First Indigenous Peoples of South Africa’s Built Environment and Dwellings in Baviaanskloof
• Documenting and Recording the Endangered Heritage of Shanasheel Wooden Houses in Iraq
• Documenting chardak house for preserving endangered wooden structures along Drava and Danube Rivers in Croatia
• 19th and Early 20th Century Architecture of Valparaiso, Chile
• Vernacular Architecture in the Aysen Region, Chile: Aspects of Identity and Culture as well as its State of Conservation
• Documentation of Traditional Architecture in the Wancho Villages in Arunachal Pradesh, India
• Documentation of the Wooden Heritage of Shimla built during the 19th Century, India.
• Documentation of the Bajau Laut’s lepa in Semporna, Sabah (Malaysia)
• Documenting the Vernacular Architecture of Manggarai, Indonesia
• DOMUS: Documenting Old Manila`s Urban Structures: 3D-Documentation of Selected Wooden Ancestral Houses in the District of San Nicolas, Manila, and on the Island of Bohol, Philippines
• Decoding Dong: Documentation of Dong Minority Villages’ Drum Tower and Wooden Heritage, China
• Documentation of Traditional Wooden Architecture in the Remote Islands of Fiji

Map showing the location of the 2023 awarded EWAP grants