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.
Wendy Fok's Resilient Modular Systems project is a finalist in the 2014 Deans' Design Challenge.
Matan Mayer’s MateriaLEASE project is a finalist in the 2014 Deans’ Design Challenge.
Dimitris Papanikolaou's (PhD candidate) project Cloudcommuting is a finalist in the 2014 Deans’ Design Challenge.
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.”
The GSD is well represented among the The Graham Foundation's 2014 Grants to Individuals.
Research projects by Alexander Arrojo (MLA '13) and Daia Stutz (MLAUD '13) were featured in the February issue of Landscape Architecture Frontiers.
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.
GA Collaborative, the non-profit design organization of Zaneta Hong (lecturer in landscape architecture and MLA I '07), Michael Leighton Beaman (MArch '03), James Setzler (MArch '05), and Yutaka Sho (MArch '05) is EDRA's 2014 Place Design Award recipient for the “Masoro Village Project."
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.