2026 Lutyens Traveling Fellowship Winner

Sebastian VanDerbeck

Winning Proposal:
Lutyens’s New Delhi School: Lessons in Precedent and Invention

Sebastian VanDerbeck is an architectural designer at Ferguson & Shamamian Architects, a high-end residential architecture firm in New York. He earned both a Bachelor of Science and a Master of Architecture, with a concentration in Classical Architecture and Urbanism, from The Catholic University of America. Sebastian is an active member of the Institute of Classical Architecture & Art (ICAA) and currently serves on The Catholic University of America’s School of Architecture and Allied Arts Council of Emerging Leaders. He resides in Brooklyn, New York.

The Lutyens Traveling Fellowship was founded by The Lutyens Trust America to promote the appreciation and knowledge of the work of Sir Edwin Lutyens by funding a period of individual travel and research on his work and legacy. The Lutyens Traveling Fellowship provides a $7,000 award for emerging professionals in architecture, art history, interior design, historic preservation, or the decorative arts.

We would like to express our appreciation to Gary and Margaret Bergstrom for their sponsorship of this year’s Lutyens Traveling Fellowship.

We would like to thank all the applicants that applied for this fourth annual fellowship. The Lutyens Traveling Fellowship Jury was impressed by the level of interest and the quality of the submissions. The variety, complexity, and depth of ideas aptly demonstrated the value of continuing to study and learn from Sir Edwin Lutyens’s body of work.

After much discussion and deliberation, the jurors were able to narrow down the applicants to three highly qualified finalists that deserve special recognition: Spicer Emge, Tong Guam, and Sebastian VanDerbeck.