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)…
Projects
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: Remi McClain’s “There Goes the Neighborhood”
by Remi McClain (MArch II ’22) — Recipient of the James Templeton Kelley Prize, Master…
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,…
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 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 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 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: Yuming Feng’s “American Brick and the Difficult Whole”
by Yuming Feng (MArch II ’21) — Recipient of the James Templeton Kelley Prize, Master…
Cutting the Tall Grass
by Sharon Cornelissen (Postdoctoral Fellow) Sharon Cornelissen lived and became a homeowner as an…
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 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…
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…