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2024 STUDENT AWARDS

School-Wide Awards

GSAPP WRITING PRIZE

This prize is given an outstanding essay, paper, or thesis on the history or theory of architecture written for a class during their time at GSAPP.

Tofu’s transformations from artisanal food to global commodity
Juliana Yang (M.Arch)

GSAPP VISUALIZATION AWARD

This prize is given for innovative use of computing media in architectural or urban research, design, and fabrication.

Hongqian Li (CDP)

CAMPBELL AWARD

The University Trustees and the Board of the Columbia Alumni Association (CAA) established The Campbell Award, presented by the CAA to a graduating student at each School who shows exceptional leadership and Columbia spirit as exemplified by the late Bill Campbell, Chair Emeritus, University Trustee, outstanding alumnus, and CAA co-founder.

Eleanor Phetteplace (HP)

WILLIAM KINNE FELLOWS TRAVELING PRIZE

These awards are granted on the merit of proposals submitted for travel abroad incorporating the study of architecture, including planning and other specialized aspects of architecture.

Bamboo Blueprint: Charting Sustainable Construction in Mexican Communities

Kelly He

Dancing with Darkness: Butoh and the Search for Queer Kinship in Japan

Kelvin Lee

Sites of Memory & Liberation

Laurin Moseley

Once upon a Mine: A speculative graphic novel about communities affected by uranium mining in the Navajo Nation

Mariam Elizabeth Jacob

One and Many Rivers: Yangtze River in Its Becomings

Mingyue Zhang

Displacement after Death: The Buried Narratives of Old Melbourne Cemetery

Rose Zhang

Niwaki: A Tectonic of Transspecies Encounter

Stephen Zimmerer

The Animus of the Venti: Or, Milan’s Winds of Climate Change

Will Cao

GASTRO-DIPLOMACY OF PHÚ QUỐC NƯỚC MẮM (FISH SAUCE): Case study on food as archives of culture, climate, and heritage

Wei Xiao
Carmen Chan

Lithium at the Limits of Life: Indigenous Agency in a Post-Lithium World

Ammar Rassai

Ropa Blanca: A research Atlas beyond typology

Foteini Kallikouni

Architecture and Cognition: Exploring Architecture as a Universal Language for Perception through the Maggie’s Centre

Harshvardhan Jhaveri

Living in a 4D Cityscape: A Study of Climate/Geography-Adaptive Architecture in Chongqing

Jinyue Han

“Bonifica Coloniale”: Southern Italy as Fascist colonial laboratory

Pietro Rosano

Tides of Time: Investigating Sea Level Rise Through Archaeology and Cultural Signifiers in India’s Sunken Cities

Anadya Kukreja
Sahana Kumar

RETREAT OF THE ANDEAN GLACIERS: Mapping resilient strategies for melting territories

Jessy Rojas Guere

Beyond Toxic Legacies: Unraveling UXO Contamination and its interplay with local livelihoods in Laos

Yunge (Keiki) Hu
Jahanvi Nahata

Coast of Gold and Mega Cities: Interrogating West Africa’s postcolonial urban futurity through Ghana’s Appolonia City

Yidan Li

Redressing the Norris Basin: The Built Environment and Public History in Appalachia

Madeline Hagan

Building the Engine

Kayla Parsons

Urban Childhoods: How Lima is re-centering children and caregivers through the transformation of residual spaces

Alyana Acacio

The Water Forest: Water Scarcity, Subsidence, and Indigenous Ways of Life in Mexico City

Olivia Jia

PRIZES OPEN TO MULTIPLE PROGRAMS

PERCIVAL AND NAOMI GOODMAN FELLOWSHIP

The purpose of the Percival & Naomi Goodman Fellowship is to enable the recipient to carry out a project of social significance related to the interests of Percival Goodman.

Pavitra Nayak (AAD)
EunJin Shin (M.Arch)

M.ARCH PROGRAM AWARDS

CHARLES McKIM PRIZE FOR EXCELLENCE IN DESIGN / SAUL KAPLAN TRAVELING FELLOWSHIP

This prize recognizes the student whose work throughout the studios has been outstanding and is funded by a bequest from Saul Kaplan (M.Arch ‘57).

Anna Nanju Kim

AIA MEDAL FOR ACADEMIC EXCELLENCE

This prize is awarded to the student who has maintained the best general standard in all sequences during the professional course over the past 2-3 years in the School.

Mariam Elizabeth Jacob

ALPHA RHO CHI MEDAL

This prize is for the student who has shown ability in leadership over the past 2-3 years in the School and who gives promise of professional merit through their attitude and personality.

Juliana Yang

THE EVANS SIMPSON ‘88 M.ARCH PRIZE FOR EXCELLENCE IN DESIGN

The prize is for high quality of work in the design studios during the student’s program of studies at Columbia.

David Zhang

HONOR AWARD FOR EXCELLENCE IN DESIGN

This award is for student engagement, leadership, and high academic attainment within design studios in the M.Arch Program.

Stephen Zimmerer

HONOR AWARD FOR DESIGN AND VISUALIZATION

This prize is given for innovative use of computing media in architectural or urban research, design, and fabrication.

Ken Hata Farris

HONOR AWARD FOR DESIGN AND TECHNOLOGY

This prize is awarded to the student who most demonstrates an ability to incorporate building science and technologies into the issues of architectural design.

Mariam Elizabeth Jacob

ALI JAWAD MALIK MEMORIAL HISTORY/THEORY HONOR AWARD

This prize is given in recognition of high quality of work in the History/Theory Sequence.

Anoushka Mariwala

LUCILLE SMYSER LOWENFISH MEMORIAL PRIZE

This award is for the most outstanding student in the final semester design studios.

Kelly He
Carmen Chan
Advanced Architecture Studio VI
Critics: Rachaporn Choochuey + Lucy Navarro

‘AVERY 6’ AWARD

This student-nominated prize is awarded to the graduating M.Arch student whose work questions the standards of architecture and promises to change the profession, and whose commitment within studio and the school at large has earned the respect of the student body.

Allon Morgan

M.S. AAD Program Awards

WILLIAM WARE PRIZE FOR EXCELLENCE IN DESIGN / SAUL KAPLAN TRAVELING FELLOWSHIP

This prize is awarded to recognize the student whose work in the studios has been outstanding and is funded by a bequest from Saul Kaplan (M.Arch ‘57). The prize is for travel and study following graduation.

Pedro Pablo González

HONOR AWARD FOR EXCELLENCE IN ADVANCED ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN

This award is for student engagement, leadership, and high academic attainment within design studios in the AAD Program.

Foteini Kallikouni
Yuanlong Zhu

HONOR AWARD FOR ARGUMENTS IN DESIGN

The prize is for a student whose work has been outstanding in the formulation of agendas and positions—that is, arguments and the way in which they take part in the advancement of architectural design.

Ammar Rassai

LUCILLE SMYSER LOWENFISH MEMORIAL PRIZE

This award is for the most outstanding student in the final semester design studios.

Min Jeong Song
Min Young Jeong
Advanced Architecture Studio VI
Critic: David Benjamin

PEER TO PEER AWARD

This student-nominated award is given in recognition of outstanding service to classmates, faculty, and school.

Siraphob Khuptiphongkun

M.S. AUD Program Awards

GSAPP PRIZE FOR EXCELLENCE IN URBAN DESIGN

This prize is intended to recognize the student whose work in the Urban Design Program has been most outstanding.

Candelaria Gassiebayle

HONOR AWARD FOR EXCELLENCE IN URBAN DESIGN

This award recognizes the students who have demonstrated significant leadership, service, and commitment to collaboration in the Urban Design Program.

Nathan Ma
Xueyuan Wang

LUCILLE SMYSER LOWENFISH MEMORIAL PRIZE

This award is for the most outstanding project in the final semester design studios.

Gokul Nair
Angel Miguel Langumas
Sara Paul
Chealsie Nalvarte

Water for All : East Portland Jamaica
Critics: Kate Orff (Coordinator), Thaddeus Pawlowski, Geeta Mehta, Claudia Herasme, Adriana Chávez, Dilip Da Cunha

PEER TO PEER AWARD

This student-nominated award is given in recognition of outstanding service to classmates, faculty, and school.

Hamza Jamjoom

M.S. CCCP PROGRAM AWARDS

CCCP AWARD FOR OUTSTANDING THESIS

For the thesis that best demonstrates rigorous development of critical, curatorial, and conceptual practices, and the most complementary format or medium in its realization.

Zachary Torres
Visions of the Necropolis: ACT UP & The Spatial Politics of Death
Advisor: Felicity D. Scott

CCCP PROGRAM AWARD

This prize is for a significant contribution to the culture of research, practice, and the public sphere within the CCCP Program.

Clarisse Queiroz

PEER TO PEER AWARD

This student-nominated award is given in recognition of outstanding service to classmates, faculty, and school

Zachary Torres

M.S. CDP PROGRAM AWARDS

CDP PROGRAM AWARD

This prize is for a significant contribution to the culture of research, practice, and the public sphere within the CDP Program.

Daniel Miller

HONOR AWARD FOR OUTSTANDING CAPSTONE IN CDP

For the capstone that best explores computational design practices through rigorous experimentation, development, and execution of a project.

Matthew Heaton
Remote Sensing
Advisor: Laura Kurgan

PEER TO PEER AWARD

This student-nominated award is given in recognition of outstanding service to classmates, faculty, and school

Jonathan Marcos

M.S. HP PROGRAM AWARDS

ONERA PRIZE IN HISTORIC PRESERVATION

This is given to a graduating student from Columbia GSAPP’s M.S. Program in Historic Preservation to conduct a project that tests new preservation theories in practice.

Eleanor Phetteplace

HONOR AWARD FOR OUTSTANDING THESIS IN HISTORIC PRESERVATION

For a master’s thesis that best demonstrates excellence in the field of Historic Preservation.

Esther Wagner
Preservation and Politics: The Presentation of the Shoah and the Lasting Impact of Early Preservation Campaigns at Auschwitz-Birkenau
Advisor: Sarah Sher

Andrés Santana-Miranda
Experimenting with Vulnerability Proposing an Alternative Hurricane-Related Vulnerability Assessment Beyond Site-Driven Approaches in Puerto Rico
Advisor: Erica Avrami

PEER TO PEER AWARD

This student-nominated award is given in recognition of outstanding service to classmates, faculty, and school.

Gray Danforth

M.S. RED Program Awards

DIN FAMILY SCHOLARS PRIZE

This award is for the individual with the highest academic attainment in the M.S. Real Estate Development Program.

Mary Elizabeth Finley

HANK BELL ENTREPRENEURIAL AWARD

This award is for the student that best embodies Professor Emeritus Hank Bell’s entrepreneurial spirit.

Amy Hald

HONOR AWARD FOR EXCELLENCE IN REAL ESTATE DEVELOPMENT

This award is for student participation, leadership, and high academic attainment within the Real Estate Development Program.

Mike Allen
Jeffrey Pew
Katharina Vrolijk
George M. Williams III

PEER TO PEER AWARD

This student-nominated award is given in recognition of outstanding service to classmates, faculty, and school.

John Mathai

M.S. UP PROGRAM AWARDS

AMERICAN PLANNING ASSOCIATION OUTSTANDING STUDENT AWARD

This prize is for outstanding attainment in the study of Urban Planning.

Kavyaa Rizal

NEW YORK CHAPTER OF THE AMERICAN PLANNING ASSOCIATION’S AWARD

This award is for academic excellence and leadership in Urban Planning.

Shannon Onlam Hui

CHARLES ABRAMS THESIS AWARD

For a thesis that best exemplifies a commitment to social justice.

Daniela Perleche Ugas
Women Asylum Seekers, Care Infrastructures, and the Violence of Finding Shelter in New York City
Advisor: Hiba Bou Akar

HONOR AWARD FOR EXCELLENCE IN URBAN PLANNING

This award is for student engagement, leadership, and high academic attainment within the Urban Planning Program.

Catharina Utami
Lance Punay

PEER TO PEER AWARD

This student-nominated award is given in recognition of outstanding service to classmates, faculty, and school.

Ethan Floyd