Taubman College With concepts ranging from straw-insulated housing to a community-based composting facility, the 2024 Student Show awards honor the best work by Taubman College’s undergraduate, graduate, and post-professional students.
The Student Show, titled “SHOW…don’t tell,” celebrated innovative student work in studios throughout the Architecture Program in the fall 2023 and winter 2024 semesters. Former Taubman College Architecture Program fellowship recipients served as jurors.
Following is a list of winners and their respective studios, along with a link to their work and the corresponding faculty member:
STUDENT SHOW UNDERGRADUATE (UG) WINNERS
Erin Kurtycz, (UG1, Abuseir)
Isa Cirulis, “Dumping and Decomposition Grounds” (UG2, Lomeli)
Man Wah Leung, “Bio Machine” (UG3, Mufreh)
STUDENT SHOW GRADUATE WINNERS: FORM, SITUATION, AND INSTITUTIONS
Chun (Sheila) Wang, “Strike House” (Form, Fure)
Orli Schwartz, “Aggregate Aggregated” (Situation, Amigo)
Martin Rodriguez Jr., “Turn Into Candy!” (Institutions, Robinson)
STUDENT SHOW GRADUATE WINNERS: COLLECTIVES, PROPOSITIONS AND THESIS
Deanna Baris, Hannah Dorian, and Sophie Pacelko, “Farm // Form // Frame” (Collectives, Rule, and Velikov)
Caroline Stahl, “Fiber-Form” (Propositions, Coffman)
Katie Shipman, “Found in Translation” (Thesis, Kulper)
STUDENT SHOW: MASTER OF URBAN DESIGN
Cameron Blakely and Tao Chou, “Draining the Suburbs” (Cuéllar and Rida)
STUDENT SHOW: MASTER OF SCIENCE IN ARCHITECTURE, DIGITAL AND MATERIAL TECHNOLOGIES
Jake Brown, Ali Fahmy, Abdallah Kamhawi, Raha Sadat Kamravafar, “Manta” (Meibodi)
Jurors for the Student Show awards were Di Peter Yi, University of Cincinnati (2018-2019 Walter B. Sanders Research Fellow), Brittany Utting, Rice University (2017-2018 William A. Oberdick Research Fellow), and James Michael Tate, Texas A&M University (2014-2015 Willard A. Oberdick Research Fellow).
