Awards & Prizes

Architecture students are honored every year for their exceptional accomplishments and outstanding contributions through a variety of awards and prizes.

Landscape Architecture students are recognized for their exemplary performance and dedication to their studies every year at Commencement.

The GSD presents a diverse array of awards and prizes to deserving Urban Planning and Design students at our Commencement ceremony.

Outstanding MDes students are recognized with prestigious awards and prizes, to celebrate their remarkable achievements and commitment to excellence.

The Clifford Wong Prize in Housing Design is awarded for the multi-family housing design that incorporates the most interesting ideas and/or innovations that may lead to socially oriented, improved living conditions.

The Digital Design Prize is presented to the student who has demonstrated the most creative and rigorous use of computation in relation to the design professions.

The Irving Innovation Fellowship offers students graduating with GSD master’s degrees an opportunity to extend their research and discovery in design, architecture, urban planning and design, and landscape architecture.

The Peter Rice Prize honors students of exceptional promise in the school’s architecture and advanced degree programs who have proven their competence and innovation in advancing architecture and structural engineering.

The Plimpton-Poorvu Design Prize is awarded to an individual or team whose project, completed as part of their GSD curriculum, best demonstrates feasibility in design and construction and fulfills market and user needs.