2026 Student Show Awards honor top student work
With innovative concepts ranging from a fieldhouse that adapts to users’ movements and body temperatures to a city that employs a timber-based raised-ground system to spur growth, conserve energy, and build coastal resilience, the 2026 Student Show recognizes the best work by Taubman College’s undergraduate, graduate, and post-professional students.
This year, the Student Show highlighted studio work from students in the architecture, digital and material technologies, urban design, and urban technology programs from the fall 2025 and winter 2026 semesters. Following is a list of winners and their respective studio, along with a link to their work and corresponding faculty member:
Student Show Undergraduate (UG) Winners
Lilijana Gregov, “I Move You – Transient Field house” (UG2, Lomeli)
Lilijana Gregov, “Don’t Mind the Noise – S. Wells Workshop” (UG3, Wigger)
Student Show Graduate Winners: Form, Situation, and Institutions
Kiki Chen, “Some Work, Some Play” (Form, Fure and Clancy)
Krzysztof Lower, “Stock Pile” (Situation, Miller)
Ryan Britain, “Kerrytown Bodega” (Institutions, Pallares)
Student Show Graduate Winners: Collectives and Propositions
Brianna Manzor and Riley Montgomery, “Intra-block” (Collectives, Cuéllar)
Roman Marra and Jack Smith, “Detroit Media Futures” (Propositions, Sirota)
Sujeong Koo, “The Timber Growing City” (Propositions, Jazairy)
Student Show: Master of Urban Design Winners
Yin-Tuan Joyce Hsueh and Tianchang Li, “The P.I.L.O.T. Project” (MUD1, Cuéllar)
Elyse Cote and Shweta Chawda, “Undercurrents” (MUD2, Peñarroyo)
Student Show: Urban Technology Winner
Eric Li, Owen Woertink, Theo Berry, William Richardson, and Adil Nazarov, “Eastern Market Community Agriculture” (So and Boyer)
Jurors for the 2026 Student Show awards were Jonathan Kurtz, principal at J. Kurtz Architects; Danielle Beaulieu, architect and founder of -lieu; Ali Truwit, architect with William Rawn Associates; Omar Ali, assistant professor of architecture at Syracuse University; and Pamela Robinson, interim director and professor at the School of Urban and Regional Planning at Toronto Metropolitan University.
