2026
Winner:
Ellen Peirson
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Ultra-Processed Kitchens: Infrastructures of Extraction in the Home
Finalists:
Olga Cobușcean
Junho “Sohun” Kang
Mohamad Nahleh
Brittany Utting
Jury:
Mariana Ibañez, Marina Otero Verzier, Jennifer Newsom, Charles Waldheim, Oliver Wainwright, and Sarah M. Whiting
2025
Winner:
Mauro Marinelli
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Topographies of Resistance: Architecture and the Survival of Cultures
Finalists:
Meriem Chabani
Mohamad Nahleh
Alfredo Thiermann
Jury:
Chris Cornelius, Grace La, Jennifer Newsom, Tosin Oshinowo, Noura Al Sayeh, and Sarah M. Whiting.
2024
Winner:
Thandi Loewenson
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Black Papers: Beyond the Politics of Land, Towards African Policies of Earth & Air
Finalists:
Meriem Chabani (Paris, France)
Nathan Friedman (Mexico City, Mexico)
Ryan Roark (Chicago, IL)
Jury:
Noura Al Sayeh, Chris Cornelius, K. Michael Hays, Jennifer Newsom, John Peterson, Sarah M. Whiting
2023
Winner:
Jingru (Cyan) Cheng
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Tracing Sand: Phantom Territories, Bodies Adrift
Finalists:
Isabel Abascal (Mexico City, Mexico)
Maya Bird-Murphy (Chicago, IL)
DK Osseo-Asare (Tema, Ghana)
Jury:
Noura Al Sayeh, Mira Henry, Mark Lee, Jacob Riedel, Enrique Walker, Sarah M. Whiting
2022
Winner:
Marina Otero
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Future Storage: Architectures to Host the Metaverse
Finalists:
Curry J. Hackett
Summer Islam
Feifei Zhou
Jury:
Will Hunter, Adrian Lahoud, Mark Lee, Irene Sunwoo, Shirley Surya, Sarah M. Whiting
2021
Winner:
Germane Barnes
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Anatomical Transformations in Classical Architecture
Finalists:
Luis Berríos-Negrón (San Juan, Puerto Rico)
Iulia Statica (Ithaca, NY)
Catty Dan Zhang (Charlotte, NC)
Jury:
David Brown, David Hartt, Mark Lee, Megan Panzano, Sumayya Vally, Sarah M. Whiting
2020
Winner:
Daniel Fernández Pascual, MArch 2008, ETSA Madrid, M.Sc. 2009,
TU Berlin, M.Sc. 2010, Tongji University Shanghai, Ph.D. 2015,
Centre for Research Architecture, Goldsmiths, University of London
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Being Shellfish: The Architecture of Intertidal Cohabitation
Finalists:
Bryony Roberts (New York, NY)
Gustavo Utrabo (São Paulo, Brazil)
Jury:
Anna Puigjaner, Sarah M. Whiting, Mark Lee, Megan Panzano, Tom Emerson, Wonne Ickx
2019
Winner:
Aleksandra Jaeschke, DDes 2018, Harvard GSD
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UNDER WRAPS: Architecture and Culture of Greenhouses
Finalists:
Maria Shéhérazade Giudici (London, UK)
Garrett Ricciardi (Los Angeles, CA)
Jury:
Tatiana Bilbao, Loreta Castro Reguera, K. Michael Hays, Eric Höweler, Erik L’Heureux, Mohsen Mostafavi, Megan Panzano
2018
Winner:
Aude-Line Dulière, MArch 2009, Harvard GSD
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Crafted Images: Material Flows, Techniques, and Uses in Set Design Construction
Finalists:
José Esparza Chong Cuy (Chicago, IL)
Gustavo Utrabo (São Paulo, Brazil)
Catty Dan Zhang (Charlotte, NC)
Jury:
Jose Ahedo, Edward Eigen, Frida Escobedo, Michael Hays, Mark Lee, Mohsen Mostafavi, Michelle Wilkinson
2017
Winner:
Samuel Bravo, BArch 2008, Pontifical Catholic University of Chile
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Projectless: Architecture of Informal Settlements
Finalists:
Lucia Cella (Posadas, Misiones, Argentina)
Andjela Karabašević (Belgrade, Serbia)
Farzin Lotfi-Jam (New York, NY)
Jury:
Gordon Gill, Mariana Ibañez, Gia Wolff, K. Michael Hays, Mohsen Mostafavi
2016
Winner:
Anna Puigjaner, BArch 2004, MArch 2008, Ph.D. 2014,
Escola Tècnica Superior d’Arquitectura de Barcelona-Universitat
Politècnica de Catalunya
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Kitchenless City: Architectural Systems for Social Welfare
Finalists:
Samuel Bravo (Santiago, Chile)
Matilde Cassani (Milan, Italy)
Pier Paolo Tamburelli (Milan, Italy)
Jury:
Eva Franch i Gilabert, Jeannie Kim, Kiel Moe, Rafael Moneo, Benjamin Prosky, K. Michael Hays, Mohsen Mostafavi
2015
Winner:
Erik L’Heureux, BArch 1996, Washington University in St. Louis
MArch 2000, Princeton University
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Hot and Wet: The Equatorial City and the Architectures of Atmosphere
Finalists:
Malkit Shoshan (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Quynh Vantu (London, UK)
Jury:
Craig Evan Barton, Preston Scott Cohen, Sarah Herda, Elisa Silva, K. Michael Hays
2014
Winner:
Jose M. Ahedo, MArch 2008, Harvard GSD
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Domesticated Grounds: Design and Domesticity Within an Animal Farming System
Finalists:
Ana Dana Beros (Zagreb, Croatia)
Alison Crawshaw (London, UK)
Masaki Iwamoto (Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam)
Jimenez Lai (Chicago, IL)
Sean Lally (Chicago, IL)
Kaz Yoneda (Tokyo, Japan)
Jury:
Iñaki Ábalos, Sílvia Benedito, Pedro Gadanho, Linda Pollak, Shohei Shigematsu, Mohsen Mostafavi, Jorge Silvetti
2013
Winner:
Gia Wolff, MArch 2008, Harvard GSD
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Floating City: The Community-Based Architecture of Parade Floats
Jury:
Yung Ho Chang, Farès el-Dahdah, Farshid Moussavi, Zoe Ryan, Mohsen Mostafavi, K. Michael Hays, Jorge Silvetti
Previous Winners
2010-2011
Elisa Silva, MArch 2002
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Interpreting Design Knowledge Through Latin American Slum Upgrading Efforts
2009-2010
Ying Zhou, MArch 2007
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Urban loopholes and pragmatist landscapes: spatial productions and the Shanghai Expo 2010
2008-2009
Mason White, MArch 2001
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Meltdown: Thawing Geographies in Arctic Russia
2007-2008
Carlos Arnaiz, MArch 2003
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Four Experiments in Urbanism: The Modern University City in Latin America
2006-2007
Miho Mazereeuw, MArch/MLA 2002
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Post-Disaster Architecture and Urbanism: 3 Cities along the Ring of Fire
2005-2006
Joshua Comaroff, MArch/MLA 2001
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The Archaeology of Afro-Modernism
2004-2005
Cecilia Tham, MArch 2002
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The Roundabout Spectacle
2003-2004
Ker-Shing Ong, MArch/MLA 2002
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A City in Miniature
2002-2003
Jeannie Kim, MArch 2000
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Stuck in the Middle Again
2001-2002
Sze Tsung Leong, MArch 1998
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Endangered Spaces: The Casualties of Chinese Modernization
2000-2001
Farès el-Dahdah, MArch 1996
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Utopian Superblocks: The Evolution of Brasilia’s 1,200 Housing Slabs since 1960
1999-2000
Paolo Bercah, MAUD 1989, DDES 1992
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Architecture/Celebration
1998-1999
Nana Last, MArch 1986
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Cartesian Grounds: The Extended Planes of Modernism
1996-1997
James Favaro, MArch 1982
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The Influence of Underground Transportation on the Development of Cities
1995-1996
Raveervarn Choksombatchai, MArch 1987
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Seam: Connecting Spatial Fabric
1994-1995
Edwin Y. Chan, MArch 1985
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The Glass Building Revisited
1993-1994
Richard M. Sommer, MArch 1988
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Traces of the Iron Curtain: A Creative Redescription
1992-1993
Jeffrey A. Murphy, MArch 1986
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Housing Courtyards of the Amsterdam School
1991-1992
Roger Sherman, MArch 1985
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The Simulation of Nature: Alvar Aalto and the Architecture of Mis en Scene
1990-1991
Holly Getch, MArch 1991
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Conventions of Representation and Strategies of Urban Space from the 18th to the Early 20th Centuries: Juvarra, Repton, Schinkel, Le Corbusier
1989-1990
Wellington Reiter, MArch 1986
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The Walled City Reconsidered: A Study of Roman Passage Architecture
1988-1989
Elizabeth A. Williams, MArch 1985
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Event, Place, Precedent: The Urban Festival in Western Europe
1987-1988
Linda Pollak, MArch 1985
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The Picturesque Promenade: Temporal Order in the Space of Modernism
1986-1987
Christopher Doyle, MArch 1985
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Sequence and Microsequence: Urban Drama in Baroque Italy
Frances Hsu, MArch 1985
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Transformation of the Landscape in Modernism: Gardens of Alvar Aalto and Le Corbusier
1985-1986
Paul John Grayson, MArch 1956
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Housing and Lifecare Facilities Planning and Design for the Elderly in Japan, Israel, Europe
1982-1983
Joanna Lombard, MArch 1977
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American Gardens and the European Precedent: A Design Analysis of Public Space and Cultural Translation
1981-1982
Hector R. Arce, MArch 1977
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The Grid as Underlying Structure: A Study of the Urbanism of Gridded Cities in Latin America
1979-1980
Nelson K. Chen, MArch 1978
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Indigenous Patterns of Housing and Processes of Urban Development in Europe and Southeast Asia
1978-1979
Nelson K. Chen, MArch 1978
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Indigenous Patterns of Housing and Processes of Urban Development in Europe and Southeast Asia
1978-1979
Susie Kim, MAUD 1977
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Time-Lapse Architecture in Sicily
1976-1977
Corky Poster, MArch 1973
Leon J. Goldberg, MArch 1972
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Housing Facilities for the Elderly: A Cross-Cultural Study
1974-1975
Alan Chimacoff, MArch 1968
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An Investigation of the Relationship between Architecture and Urban Design of Significant European Urban Centers and their Exploration of Formal, Spatial, Geometric, Proportional, and Scalar Characteristics
1973-1974
Klaus Herdeg, MAUD 1964
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Formal Structure of Public Architecture in Persia and Turkestan
1972-1973
Ozdemir Erginsav, MArch 1961, MAUD 1963
1971-1972
Minoru Takeyama, MArch 1960
1970-1971
Theodore Liebman, MArch 1963
1969-1970
Robert Kramer, MArch 1960
1968-1969
Adele Marie de Souza Santos, MAUD 1963
1967-1968
William H. Liskamm, MArch 1956
1966-1967
William Lindemulder, MArch 1958
1965-1966
Peter Woytok, MArch 1962
1964-1965
William Morgan, MArch 1958
1963-1964
Paul Krueger, MArch 1959
1962-1963
B. Frank Schlesinger, MArch 1954
1961-1962
Albert Szabo, MArch 1952
1960-1961
Donald Craig Freeman, MArch 1957
1959-1960
John C. Haro, MArch 1955
1958-1959
Paul Mitarachi, MArch 1950
1957-1958
Don Hisaka, MArch 1953
1956-1957
George F. Conley, BArch 1953
1955-1956
Dolf Hermann Schnebli, MArch 1954
1954-1955
Ferdinand Frederick Bruck
1953-1954
Royal Alfred McClure, MArch 1947
1952-1953
William J. Conklin, MArch 1950
Gottfied Paul Csala, BArch 1954
Helmut Jacoby, BArch 1954
Edward Stutt, MArch 1953
1951-1952
Frederick D. Holister, MArch 1953
Donald Emanuel Olsen, MArch 1946
1950-1951
Ieoh Ming Pei, MArch 1946
Jacek von Henneberg, MArch 1951
Jerry Neal Leibman
1949-1950
Henry Louis Horowitz, MArch 1950
Jean Claude Mazet, MArch 1950
Edward Chase Weren
George Elliot Rafferty, MArch 1950
1948-1949
Vaughn Papworth Call, MRP 1949
1947-1948
Joseph Douglas Carroll, Jr., MCP 1947
1946-1947
Jean Paul Carlhian, MCP 1947
Noel Buckland Dant, MRP 1948
Martin Daniel Meyerson, MCP 1949
1945-1946
William Lindus Cody Wheaton
Kurt Augustus Mumm, BCP 1946
Ira Rakatansky, MArch 1946
Stanley Salzman, MArch 1946
1944-1945
Robert William Blachnik, MArch ’45
Alvaro Ortega, MArch ’45
Theodore Jan Prichard, MArch ’44
Helge Westermann, MArch ’48
1943-1944
Christopher Tunnard
1942-1943
Albert Evans Simonson
William W. Wurster
1941-1942
Phillip Emile Joseph
1940-1941
Leonard James Currie, MArch ’38
1939-1940
Eliot Fette Noyes, MArch ’38
1938-1939
Walter H.Kilham, Jr., MArch ’28
1937-1938
Constantine A. Pertzoff
1936-1937
Newton Ellis Griffith
Paul Marvin Rudolph, MArch ’47
Walter Egan Trevett
1936-1937
R Prentice Bradley, MArch ’33