On the Brinck / Places Prize on the American Southwest

A collaboration between Places Journal and the On the Brinck program at the School of Architecture + Planning at University of New Mexico, the prize supports ambitious public scholarship focused on the Southwestern region of what is now the United States. In doing so, it extends the goals of the school’s On the Brinck Book Awards, which are dedicated to “emphasizing new and overlooked areas of study, challenging existing scholarship, integrating allied disciplines, and appealing to a broad readership,” in the spirit of landscape writer and critic John Brinckerhoff Jackson.