In order to help mainland China's architecture students complete an overseas architectural trip in their youth and give them the opportunity to study architectural themes of their choice, MAD established the MAD Travel Fund in 2009. Travel is one of the most important learning methods for architects. Only by experiencing architectural spaces in person can one be inspired to come up with different ideas and gain a deeper understanding of oneself.

This year, we received hundreds of applications from all over the country, including undergraduate, graduate and doctoral students from various architectural majors. The travel destinations chosen by the five selected this year not only reflect their own creative approaches and motivations, but more importantly, each of them expressed the most intuitive understanding of the significance of this trip: personal experience is essential to fully understand the meaning of a building or a place.

Thanks to VERTU's long-term support and sponsorship, 10 students from all over China have received funding and traveled to many countries around the world, including Greece, Switzerland, the United States and Egypt. This summer, these 5 students will have the opportunity to travel for 7-10 days. After the trip, the students will have the opportunity to publicly present their results.

The name of the recipient of this travel fund:

Chen Fei, 8th year undergraduate student of the School of Architecture, Tianjin University, destination: Japan.

Liang Shuang, a fourth-year undergraduate student at the Department of Architecture at the Central Academy of Fine Arts, is heading to Switzerland and Germany.

Du Kewei, fourth-year undergraduate student at Shanghai Institute of Visual Arts, Fudan University, destination: Italy.

Li Hongkai, second-year graduate student at the School of Architecture, Southeast University, destination: Switzerland.

Wang Fei, first-year graduate student at the School of Architecture, Tsinghua University, destination: Switzerland.