In its initial year (1951) the Scholarship Foundation chose five high school seniors for awards schools. A strong supporter of scholarships, Battista was active in both AIA Brooklyn and the Scholarship Foundation. The Institute was a non-profit technical school that offered Associate degrees in building construction and architectural design, as well as continuing education. Vito Battista, an architect, founded the Institute of Design and Construction in 1947. He orchestrated a joint scholarship program, the Brooklyn Architects Scholarship Foundation, and Weston served as its first President. Martyn also was a member of Brooklyn AIA and served as Chapter President in 19. In 1939 the Society’s President was Martyn Weinstein (later Weston) who introduced the concept of a yearly award to a graduate student in architecture at Pratt Institute. Because the Society had many members who themselves or their families were immigrants, they understood the struggle to get an education and wanted to help the younger generation achieve their goals. As early as 1929 the Society founded a scholarship organization. In the 1920’s Jewish and Italian architects found the Society of Architects to be a more welcoming club than the upper-class Brooklyn AIA Chapter. The Society concerned itself with building codes and government affairs, while Brooklyn AIA concentrated on loftier, more artistic aspects of the profession.
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The Brooklyn Architects Scholarship Foundation began as an initiative of the Brooklyn Society of Architects, a professional organization that was founded around 1904.
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