Ashley Mendelsohn (MDesS '14) and Craig Reschke (MLA '15), along with Ann Lui, Larisa Ovalles and Ben Widger are one of the 10 winning teams of the WorldWide Storefront competition for art & architecture. They will present their project, the Spectacle Syndicate, an itinerant event venue located on the back of a traveling truck, in the fall.
Martin Bechthold (professor of architectural technology, co-director of the DDes Program and director of the GSD Technology Platform) and a group of GSD students joined hundreds of artists, designers, fabricators and industry leaders at Rob|Arch 2014, a biannual conference created by the Association for Robots in Architecture.
In March, the deans announced 18 finalists in the deans innovation challenges, including four from the GSD. We sat down with the Design Challenge finalists to find out more about their propsals and what winning the challenge—and its $50,000 prize—would mean to them.
Leif Estrada (MLA/MDes '14) has won the 2014 Howard T. Fisher Prize for Excellence in GIS (Graduate Category) for his entry, “Temporal Morphology: Synthetic Growth and Natural Decline of Alameda Island.”
Daniel Tool (MAUD '15) and Baha Sadreddin (MDes '15) each receive the Hart Howerton Fellowship for their proposals to research the relationship between the unique landscapes of Sweden, Finland, and Norway and their design cultures, and European eco-districts, respectively.
Ana Maria Quirós (MDes '15) is awarded the third GIS Prize for Excellence in Russian, East European, and Central Asian Studies from the Harvard University Davis Center.
First year DDes student Somayeh Chitchian has won the ESRI Development Center Student of the Year Award for her work “Middle Eastern Immigration Landscape in America.”
He manages tech teams in Seattle and represents a new breed of GSD graduates who have leveraged their design education in pursuit of alternative futures. Read more about Joey and his career trajectory.
This fall, the GSD will celebrate the 30th anniversary of the Master of Design Studies program. Read more about its inception, its growth, and ongoing plans to support the School's research agenda.
The 2014 Community Service Fellowship Program Fellows, representing all the GSD programs, will be taking it to the streets this summer to challenge themselves and test their learning on design and planning projects with direct community impact. The 10-week paid summer internships will send them to local community organizations, federal and state agencies and nonprofit institutions with a wide range of needs.