2023 Peter Rice Prize: Sujie Park’s “Material Alchemy”
by Sujie Park (MArch I ’23) — Recipient of the Peter Rice Prize. The history…
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2023 Urban Planning Thesis Prize: Michael Zajakowski Uhll’s “Our History is our Resource:” Historic Narrative as Urban Planning Strategy in Chicago’s Pullman Neighborhood
by Michael Zajakowski Uhll (MUP ’23) — Recipient of the Urban Planning Thesis Prize. How…
2023 James Templeton Kelley Prize: Jacqueline Wong’s “An Intrinsic Model for a Non-Neutral Plural National School”
by Jacqueline Wong (MArch I ’23) — Recipient of the James Templeton Kelley Prize, Master…
2023 Urban Design Thesis Prize: Saad Boujane’s “Dwellings, Paths, Places: Configurative Habitat in Casablanca, Morocco “
by Saad Boujane (MAUD ’23) — Recipient of the Urban Design Thesis Prize. The Modernist…
2023 Landscape Architecture AP Thesis Prize and 2023 Digital Design Prize: Sonia Sobrino Ralston’s “Uncommon Knowledge: Practices and Protocols for Environmental Information”
by Sonia Sobrino Ralston (MLA I AP ’23) — Recipient of the Landscape Architecture AP…
2023 Design Studies Thesis Prize: Alaa Suliman Eltayeb Mohamed Hamid’s Ghostopia: Interrogating Colonial Legacies and A Manifesto for The Modernized Nile
by Alaa Suliman Eltayeb Mohamed Hamid (MDes ’23) — Recipient of the Design Studies Thesis…
2023 Landscape Architecture Thesis Prize: Kevin Robishaw’s Manatees and Margaritas: Toward a Strange New Paradise
by Kevin Robishaw (MLA I ’23) — Recipient of the Landscape Architecture Thesis Prize.
2023 James Templeton Kelley Prize: Deok Kyu Chung’s “Boundaries of Everyday: walls to voids, voids to solids, solids to walls”
by Deok Kyu Chung (MArch II ’23) — Recipient of the James Templeton Kelley Prize,…
2023 Landscape Architecture AP Thesis Prize: Celina Abba and Enrique Cavelier’s Plantation Futures: Foregrounding Lost Narratives
by Celina Abba (MLA I AP ’23) and Enrique…
2022 Landscape Architecture Thesis Prize: Liwei Shen’s “The Echoes of Sky River – Two Pre-modern and Modern Atmospheric Assemblages”
by Liwei Shen (MLA I ’22) — Recipient of the Landscape Architecture Thesis Prize. The…
2022 James Templeton Kelley Prize: Isaac Henry Pollan’s “This Is Not A Firehouse”
by Isaac Henry Pollan (MArch I ’22) — Recipient of the James Templeton Kelley Prize,…
2022 Clifford Wong Prize in Housing Design: Brian Lee’s “People’s Park Complex: Repairing the Modern City”
by Brian Lee (MArch ’22) — Recipient of the 2021 Clifford Wong Prize in…
2022 Peter Rice Prize: Hangsoo Jeong’s “Upon Concrete: Retrofitting Architecture with Malleability”
by Hangsoo Jeong (MArch ’22) — Recipient of the Peter Rice Prize Upon Concrete:…
2022 Digital Design Prize: George Guida’s “Multimodal Architecture: Applications of Language in a Machine Learning Aided Design Process”
by George Guida (MArch II ’22) — Recipient of the Digital Design Prize. This thesis…
2022 Urban Design Thesis Prize: Rogelio Cadena’s “How Are ‘We’ Living? Reevaluating the Chicago Boulevard System”
by Rogelio Cadena (MAUD ’22) — Recipient of the Urban Design Thesis Prize. At its…
2022 Design Studies Thesis Prize: Allison Hyatt’s “Priorities in Building Decarbonization: Accounting for total carbon and the time value of carbon in cost-benefit analyses of residential retrofits”
by Allison Hyatt (MDes ’22) — Recipient of the Design Studies Thesis Prize. Energy consumption…
2022 James Templeton Kelley Prize: Qin Ye Chen’s “Fluid Permanence – A Shotengai-Archive in Tokyo”
by Qin Ye Chen (MArch I ’22) — Recipient of the James Templeton Kelley Prize,…
2022 Design Studies Thesis Prize: Nicole Piepenbrink’s “HERE LIES DARBY VASSALL: Rendering the obscured and concealed history of slavery at Christ Church Cambridge”
by Nicole Piepenbrink (MDes ’22) — Recipient of the Design Studies Thesis Prize. The material…
2022 Landscape Architecture Thesis Prize: Lucy Humphreys Chebot’s “Reciprocal Optimism: Projecting Terrestrial Analogues”
by Lucy Humphreys Chebot (MLA I ’22) — Recipient of the Landscape Architecture Thesis Prize.
2022 Design Studies Thesis Prize: Anny Li’s “The World Was Their Garden: Plant introductions at the US Department of Agriculture, 1898–1984”
by Anny Li (MDes ’22) — Recipient of the Design Studies Thesis Prize. In 1898,…
2021 Architecture Faculty Design Award: Anna Kaertner’s “Equivocal Elevations”
by Anna Kaertner (MArch I ’21) — Recipient of the Architecture Faculty Design Award, Master…
2021 Architecture Faculty Design Award: Sum In Sarah Cheung’s “Asignifications: Destabilizing the Colonial Imaginary”
by Sum In Sarah Cheung (MArch I ’21) — Recipient of the Architecture Faculty Design…
2021 Clifford Wong Prize in Housing Design: Isabel Dunham Strauss’s “Up from the Past: Housing as Reparations on Chicago’s South Side”
by Isabel Dunham Strauss (MArch I ’21) — Recipient of the 2021 Clifford Wong…
2021 Design Studies Thesis Prize: Proey Liao’s “An Attempt to Approach a Void: Georges Perec, Cause commune, and the Infraordinary”
by Proey Liao (MArch II/MDes ’21) — Recipient of the Design Studies Thesis Prize In…
2021 Design Studies Thesis Prize: Juan David Grisales’ “From Humboldt to Caldas: Environmental Liberations through Tropical Altitudes”
by Juan David Grisales (MDes / MLA I AP ’21) — Recipient of the Design…
2021 Urban Design Thesis Prize: Adam Mekies’ “Aggregate, Aggregation + Geotechnical Urbanism”
by Adam Mekies (MLAUD ’21) — Recipient of the Urban Design Thesis Prize Within the…
2021 Urban Planning Thesis Prize: Mary Louise Chatters Taylor’s “Urban Planning and Mental Wellness in Black Communities”
by Mary Louise Chatters Taylor (MUP ’21) — Recipient of the Urban Planning Thesis Prize…
2021 James Templeton Kelley Prize and Clifford Wong Prize in Housing Design: Shaina Yang’s “Cripping Architecture”
by Shaina Yang (MArch I ’21) — Recipient of the James Templeton Kelley Prize, Master…
2021 Thesis Prize in Landscape Architecture: Joanne Li’s “Ovis Versatilis: Icelandic Sheep Farm as Land Art Museum and Evolution Lab”
by Joanne Li (MLA ’21) — Recipient of the Thesis Prize in Landscape Architecture…
2021 Thesis Prize in Landscape Architecture: Gracie Villa’s “City | Forest: Reordering Plant-Human Relationships Toward Healthy Cities”
by Gracie Villa (MLA I ’21) — Recipient of the Thesis Prize in Landscape Architecture…
2021 James Templeton Kelley Prize: Calvin Boyd’s “Pair of Dice, Para-Dice, Paradise: A Counter-Memorial to Victims of Police Brutality”
by Calvin Boyd (MArch I ’21) — Recipient of the James Templeton Kelley Prize, Master…
Permanence in the Temporal: Artifacts for Freedom in the Rohingya Refugee Camp
by Nadyeli Quiroz (MDes ULE/ MLA I AP ’20) According to Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben,…
Da Yun He: Symbolism and Evolution Under China’s Leadership
by Frank Wen Yao (MDes ULE ’20) For centuries, China has been known for its…
Working with Urban Informality: A Postcolonial Critique of Planning Theory based on Lessons from the Caño Martín Peña Special Planning District
by Samantha Saona (MDes ULE ’20) This thesis adds to the postcolonial perspective of informality…
Land Grabs and Land Grants: Social Forestry as New Governmentality in West Kalimantan, Indonesia
by Ziwei Zhang (MLA ’17/ MDes ULE ’20) This thesis focuses on social forestry…
2020 Design Studies Thesis Prize: Karan Saharya’s “In the Name of Heritage: Conservation as an Agent of Differential Development, Spatial Cleansing, and Social Exclusion in Mehrauli, Delhi”
by Karan Saharya (MDes ’20) — Recipient of the Design Studies Thesis Prize I intend…
2020 Design Studies Thesis Prize: Angela Mayrina’s “A Guidebook to an Empty Land: Kalimantan and the Shadows of the Capital”
by Angela Mayrina (MDes ’20) — Recipient of the Design Studies Thesis Prize Indonesia is…
2020 Urban Design Thesis Prize: Justin Cawley’s “Rescaling the University: Vertical Campuses and Postindustrial Urban Restructuring in Western Sydney”
by Justin Cawley (MAUD ’20) — Recipient of the Urban Planning and Design Thesis Prize in…
2020 Urban Planning Thesis Prize: Margaret Haltom’s “The Next Southern Landmark: A Roadmap to Confederate Monument Redesigns and RFP for the Site of a Former White Supremacist Statue”
by Margaret Haltom (MUP ’20) — Recipient of the Urban Planning and Design Thesis Prize in Urban…