2024 Plimpton-Poorvu Design Prize, Second Prize: “Walnut Park Place: Affordable Ownership Opportunities for the Egleston Square Community”
by Aaron Smithson (MArch + MUP ’25), Cat Chen (MArch ’25), Maggie Weese (MUP +…
Student Work
SILVERLINE: A New Model for Data Centers in the Age of AI: Verticalities at the Edge of the Cloud
by Ben Parker (MAUD ’24), Christopher Oh (MAUD ’24), Ziyang Dong (MArch ’25), Jasmine Ibrahim…
Monterrey’s Urban [River] Forest: Improving Microclimatic Conditions through Public-Private Partnership Vertical Development
by Miguel Lantigua Inoa (MArch II + MLA AP ‘24), Jaime Espinoza (MRE ‘25), Chris…
Connecting Gilman Square: A New Housing and Green Space Development
by Chandler Caserta (MArch ’25), Austin Sun (MLA/MArch 24), Kei Takanami (MArch ‘25), Amber Zeng…
2023 Digital Design Prize: Amelia Gan’s “Place-Time: From Waste to 3D CAD, or, Framework for geographical and temporally conscious design”
by Amelia Gan (MDes ’23) — Recipient of the Digital Design Prize. The dominance of…
2023 Clifford Wong Prize in Housing Design: Randy Crandon and Maddie Farrer
Sidewalk Stuff: Adaptive Reuse Cohousing by Randy Crandon (MArch I ’25) and Maddie Farrer (MArch…
2023 Plimpton-Poorvu Design Prize, Honorable Mention: “Truly, Oregon! Empower Lloyd Center, Portland, OR”
by Heejin Park (MAUD ’23), Terry Kim (MUP ’23), Aelin Shaoyu Li (MDes ’24), Claire…
2023 Plimpton-Poorvu Design Prize, First Prize: “The Gansevoort: Design for Longevity”
by Xinxin Cheryl Lin (MArch II ’24), Vivian Cheng (MAUD ’23), and Pinyang Paul Chen…
2023 Plimpton-Poorvu Design Prize, Second Prize: “Boyd Street Gateway”
by Maddie Farrer (MArch I ‘25), Madeleine Levin (MUP ‘23), and Arielle Rawlings (MUP ‘23)…
2022 Plimpton-Poorvu Design Prize, First Prize: “Bracing Peter Bracy”
by Hana Cohn (MLA I ’24), Youngju Kim (MAUD ’23), Arami Matevosyan (MDes REBE ’22),…
2022 Plimpton-Poorvu Design Prize, Second Prize: “Miami Gateway”
by Nicolas Carmona (MArch II ’22), George Guida (MArch II ’22), and Manu Moritz (MDes…
2022 Plimpton-Poorvu Design Prize, Third Prize: “Urban Health Catalyst”
by Vicky Chen (MAUD/ MDes REBE ’22) and Xudong Zhu (MAUD ’22) — Recipients of…
2021 Digital Design Prize: Matthew Pugh’s “Animated Spaces” and “Creature-Like Objects: Animistic Interactions With Smart Buildings + IOT Objects”
by Matthew Pugh (MArch II ’21) — Recipient of the Digital Design Prize …
2021 James Templeton Kelley Prize: Yuming Feng’s “American Brick and the Difficult Whole”
by Yuming Feng (MArch II ’21) — Recipient of the James Templeton Kelley Prize, Master…
Parallel History
by Hanh Nguyen (MArch II/ MLA I AP ’21) The National Mall in Washington, DC,…
Water at the Edge: Towards Water Independence for Mexico City’s INFONAVIT Housing
by Ciara Stein (MLA I/ MUP ’21) “Water at the Edge” envisions a new hydrologically…
ResilientHub
by Kuan-Ting Chen (MDes EE ’22), Sihui (Iris) Chen (MArch I ’21), Andrew Gibbs (MDes…
2021 Plimpton-Poorvu Design Prize, Honorable Mention: Dolvi Township Project
by Andriani Wira Atmadja (MUP ’21) and Nadege Giraudet (MArch I ’21) — Recipients of…
2021 Plimpton-Poorvu Design Prize, First Prize: Building a Scalable Business in Data Centers
by Sarah Fayad (MLAUD ’20), Ian Grohsgal (MArch I ’21), and Dixi Wu (MDes/ MArch…
2021 Peter Rice Prize: Erin Hunt and Yaxuan Liu’s “NuBlock”
by Erin Hunt (MDes Tech ’21) and Yaxuan Liu (MArch I ’21) — Recipient of…
A School of Agritecture
by Yijia Tracy Tang (MArch I ’22) Deploying the typology of a greenhouse with operations…
The Littoral between Definite and Indefinite
by Andrea Sandell (MArch I ’23) The project focus lies in the littoral zone—the zone…
The Ellipse
by Xinyi Chen (MLA II ’21) The National Mall in Washington, D.C. will be affected…
2021 Plimpton-Poorvu Design Prize, Second Place: The Block
by Daniel Garcia (March II ’20), Kyle Ryan (MDes REBE ’21), and Peeraya Suphasidh (MArch…
2021 Digital Design Prize: Ana Gabriela Loayza’s “Center – Periphery: Encoding New Processes in Shenzhen’s Boundaries”
by Ana Gabriela Loayza (MArch II ’21) — Recipient of the Digital Design Prize…
POV
by Ali Sherif (MArch I ’23) The sports complex splits the program into two types:…
Highlands’ Harvest
by Alysoun Wright (MUP/ MLA I AP ’21) The Lower Highlands neighborhood of Lowell,…
Meeting House: Using the Window as a Generator of Interstitial Space
by Sonya Falkovskaia (MArch I ’23) “Meeting House: Using the Window as a Generator of…
Transmission Right of Way
by Fabiana Casale (MLA I AP ’22), Yvonne Fang (MLA I ’21), and Maria Ulloa…
Live/Work/Rent
by Tyler Rodgers (MArch I ’22) and Tracy Tang (MArch I ’22) This project addresses…
Franklin Park’s Edge
by Sophie Mattinson (MLA I ’22) In “Franklin Park’s Edge,” the perimeter opens to its…
Rewilding the Urban Block: Constructing Permeability through Artificial Ground
by Kari Roynesdal (MLA I AP/MUP ’21) This project seeks to increase urban permeability in…
A Generosity Beyond Means
by Jonathan Ng (MArch I ’22) and Edda Steingrimsdottir (MArch I ’22) Mass housing faces…
Le Circuit Périphérique
by Jorge Ituarte-Arreola (MAUD ’21), Alex Kozak (MDes REBE ’21), Melissa Ponce (MDes REBE ’21),…
Rethinking the “Room” through the Pandemic: Isolation, Openness, and Confrontation
by Clara Hu Me (MArch I ’24) Based on a formal and theoretical examination of…
27 Pillars
by Alejandra Avalos Guerrero (MArch II ’21) A little building in a little plot. The…
Food on Mixed Ontology
by Sean Kim (MArch II/ MDes ADPD ’22) and Ge Zhou (MArch II ’21) Food…
J. Edgar’s Mask
by Yifan Wang (MLA I AP ’21) When the hyperplastic organ of the Federal Bureau…
String-pieced Columns
by Cecilia Huber (MLA ’20) When Andrew Jackson Downing submitted his plans for the National…
A Pile of CLT
by Edgar Rodriguez (March II ’20) Building upon the research developed for a suburban…