photo / Omar Abdul-Rahim ’19
Students
photo / Tim Ryan (B.Arch. ’17)
Architecture Students Design New High School for Village in Honduras In a remote village in central Honduras, students who graduate from elementary school must walk two hours along hilly, rock-covered dirt roads to reach the nearest high school. For many of the village’s youth who traditionally work on their family farms after sixth grade, the distance alone puts a premature end to their education. Soon, they may not have to travel as far when a new high school, designed by two architecture students, is built. Liam Martin (B.Arch. ’17) (above, standing at right) and Tim Ryan (B.Arch. ’17) were selected to design the school for El Rodeito— population 210—and traveled there during the 2015 spring break and last summer. The high school is a project of Mayor Potencial at Cornell, a nonprofit organization founded by Nancy Bell ’09, who grew up in the village, with a mission to improve access to education in rural Latin America. Mayor Potencial (which translates to “greatest potential”) is raising the $30,000 needed to start construction on the school. The four cinder-block buildings making up the campus will include two classroom buildings for the
Medium Design Collective Medium Design Collective, an interdisciplinary student group, published the first volume of Medium Design Review in April. The issue “exposes the diverse design pockets on campus and provides a unified perspective on Cornell’s creative community,” according to the Letter from the Editor. The issue includes work and stories of interdisciplinary collaboration and profiles of “classmates, colleagues, and mentors,” as well as spotlights on the first student design competition, “Mechanism,” and Cornell’s first interdisciplinary design panel, “Rethinking Design.” The staff of Medium Design Review includes Angela MorenoLong (B.S. URS ’16), editor; Melody Rose Stein (B.F.A. ’16), administrative director; Garrett Craig-Lucas (B.S. URS/LA ’17), and Emily Teall (B.F.A. ’16), editorial directors; Andres Romero Pompa (B.Arch. ’17), Daniel Preston (B.Arch. ’17), and Pamela Chueh (B.Arch. ’17), creative directors; Rebecca Allen (B.A./B.F.A. ’16), Jeisson Apolo (B.Arch./ B.S. URS ’16), Isabella Crowley (B.S. URS ’18), Rebecca Jackson ’19, Mabel Lawrence ’19, Rebecca Liu ’19, and Weihong Rong ’17, editorial; Tina He ’19, Dina Kaganer ’18, and Maggie O’Keefe (B.F.A. ’20), creative.AAP
high school and primary school, a computer lab and library, and a kitchen and cafeteria. They will be sited on a sloping terrace featuring play areas with curving paths, a school garden, and two congregation areas for school assemblies and public meetings. Unique design features include performative drop ceilings constructed from locally grown loofah, to reduce noise between classrooms and direct air movement during the hottest part of the day. Security grates on windows will be transformed into sculptures fabricated by local metal workers. “Maybe the classroom windows could illustrate parts of the agricultural process,” said Ryan. “For the library, the windows could portray Mayan myths with images of various creatures and goddesses, to form a more fantastical space.” Martin says the experience of working on the project in El Rodeito has changed his career goals. “Seeing the potential impact we can have, even before construction, convinced me that this is the kind of work I want to do as an architect. Design is needed much more by people who have less, and I would rather go where I’m really needed.”AAP
2015 –16 Student Academic Awards and Prizes Architecture Abadan Graduate Award Haoran Wang (M.Arch. ’20) Addison G. Crowley (B.L.Arch. ’38) Prize Justin Foo (B.Arch. ’18) A. Henry Detweiler Scholarship Fund Elvan Cobb (Ph.D. HAUD ’17) Gökhan Kodalak (Ph.D. HAUD ’19) Athanasiou Geolas (M.A. Ph.D. HAUD ’21) Aslihan Gunhan (Ph.D. HAUD ’22) Margot Lystra (M.A. HAUD ’13, Ph.D. HAUD ’18) Anna Mascorella (Ph.D. HAUD ’19) Whitten Overby (M.A. HAUD ’13, Ph.D. HAUD ’19) A.I.A. Certificate of Merit Mitsuto Mori (M.Arch. ’16) Karl Pops (B.Arch. ’16) A.I.A. Henry Adams Medal and Certificate of Merit Sophia Szagala (M.Arch. ’16) Daniel Toretsky (B.Arch. ’16) Alpha Rho Chi Tamara Jamil (B.Arch. ’16) Apexa Patel (M.Arch. ’16) Belcher-Baird Architectural Design Award Eliana Drier (M.Arch. ’20) Xiaoxue Ma (M.Arch. ’20) Bradford and Phyllis Friedman Perkins Graduate Award Catherine Breen (M.Arch. ’20)
Charles Goodwin Sands Memorial Award Silver medal: Rachel Tan (B.Arch. ’16) Bronze medal: Erica Alonzo (B.Arch. ’16) Cameron Neuhoff (B.Arch. ’16) Daniel Toretsky (B.Arch. ’16) Clifton Beckwith Brown Memorial Medal Hyemin Jang (B.Arch. ’16) Douglas W. Hocking and Melinda H. Abrams Award Alexander Terry (M.Arch. ’20) Earl R. Flansburgh Merit Award Osehikhueme Etomi (M.Arch. ’19) Ramses Gonzalez (M.Arch. ’20) Christopher Yi (M.Arch. ’20) Edward Palmer York Memorial Prize Ihwa Choi (B.Arch. ’20) Oonagh Davis (B.Arch. ’20) Yue (Lancer) Gu (B.Arch. ’20) Claire Guffey (B.Arch. ’20) Aileene Han (B.Arch. ’20) Ruth Marcotte (B.Arch. ’20) Ziqing Xu (B.Arch. ’20) Elliot M. Glass Graduate Award Hafsa Muhammad (M.Arch. ’20) Eschweiler Prize for Merit and Distinction in M.Arch. Design Studio Luke Erickson (M.Arch, ’16) Mitsuto Mori (M.Arch. ’16) Sophia Szagala (M.Arch. ’16) Han Zhang (M.Arch. ’16) Helen Fagan Tyler Graduate Fellowship in Architecture Mwanzaa Brown (M.Arch. ’19) Samuel Capps (M.Arch. ’19) Tess Clancy (M.Arch. ’19)
Osehikhueme Etomi (M.Arch. ’19) Hyojin Lee (M.Arch.II ’17) Jingsi Li (M.Arch.II ’17) Lingling Liu (M.Arch. ’19) Lingzhe Lu (M.Arch. ’19) Yue Ma (M.Arch. ’19) Heather Mauldin (M.Arch. ’19) Lu (Cheryl) Xu (M.Arch. ’19) Linjun Yu (M.Arch. ’19)
Olive Tjaden Scholarship Gary Esposito (M.Arch. ’19) Konstantinos Petrakos (M.Arch.II ’17)
John Hartell Graduate Award for Art and Architecture Jamie Mitchell (M.Arch. ’19) Konstantinos Petrakos (M.Arch.II ’17) Alireza Shojakhani (M.Arch. ’19)
Robert D. MacDougall Memorial Scholarship Elvan Cobb (Ph.D. HAUD ’17) Salvatore Dellaria (M.A./Ph.D. HAUD ’21) Athanasiou Geolas (M.A./Ph.D. HAUD ’21) Gökhan Kodalak (Ph.D. HAUD ’19) Margot Lystra (M.A. HAUD ’13, Ph.D. HAUD ’18) Josi Ward (Ph.D. HAUD ’17)
Kittleman Graduate Award in Architecture, Art, and Planning Linshen Xie (M.Arch.II ’17) M.Arch.II Award for Outstanding Performance in Architecture Nicholas Doermann (M.Arch.II ’16) Binsi Li (M.Arch.II ’16) Fahir Burak Unel (M.Arch.II ’16) Mary M. Lyons Graduate Fellowship in Architecture Kun Bi (M.Arch. ’19) Samuel Capps (M.Arch. ’19) Stephen Clond (M.Arch. ’19) Xiaoyan Dong (M.Arch.II ’17) Alexandre Mecattaf (M.Arch. ’19) Marawan Omar (M.Arch.II ’17) Matthew L. Witte Graduate Award Emma Boudreau ’16 (M.Arch. ’20) Merrill Presidential Scholar Daniel Toretsky (B.Arch. ’16)
Paul Dickinson Prize Magdalena Zink (B.Arch. ’19) RGB Endowed Graduate Award Nicolas Leonard (M.Arch. ’20)
Robert James Eidlitz Travel Fellowship Alberto Embriz de Salvatierra (B.Arch. ’14) Luke Erickson (M.Arch. ’16) Cameron Neuhoff (B.Arch. ’16) Apexa Patel (M.Arch. ’15) Daniel Salomon (B.Arch. ’12) Lea Stagno (M.Arch.II ’15) Justin Wadge (B.Arch. ’15) Ruth Bentley and Richmond Harold Shreve Award Stefany Amasifuen (M.Arch. ’16) Luke Erickson (M.Arch. ’16) Mitsuto Mori (M.Arch. ’16) Lily-Love Toppar (M.Arch. ’15) Sheinfeld Lindenfeld International Graduate Fellowship in Architecture Isabel Branas Jarque (M.Arch. ’20)
Stephen W. Jacobs Fund Salvatore Dellaria (M.A./Ph.D. HAUD ’21) Susan T. Rodriguez Graduate Award Mwanzaa Brown (M.Arch. ’19) Stefani Johnson (M.Arch. ’20)
Edith Adams and Walter King Stone Memorial Prize Laureen Andalib (B.F.A. ’17) Jaeyong Choi (B.F.A. ’17) Veronica Constable (B.F.A. ’17) Naima Kazmi (B.F.A. ’17) Tiffany Li (B.F.A. ’17) Yuxi Xiao (B.S./B.F.A. ’17)
Tui Pranich and Lucilo Pena Graduate Award Daniel (Max) Piersol (M.Arch. ’20)
Elsie Dinsmore Popkin ’58 Art Award Ekaterina Savelieva (B.A./B.F.A. ’16)
William S. Downing Prize Ngaire Stuart Gongora (B.Arch. ’16)
Faculty Medal of Art Mariko Azis (B.A./B.F.A. ’16)
Art Charles Baskerville Painting Award Carolyn Fraser (M.F.A. ’16) Frances Gallardo Varela (M.F.A. ’16) Charles Goodwin Sands Memorial Award (Bronze medal) Melody Stein (B.F.A. ’16) David R. Bean Prize in Fine Arts Briana Coleman (B.F.A. ’18) Kylie Corwin (B.F.A./B.S. ’19) Max Haughey (B.F.A. ’18) Ariella Lindenfeld (B.F.A. ’18) Madeleine Popkin (B.F.A. ’18) Lauryn Smith (B.F.A. ’18) Department of Art Distinguished Achievement Award Rosebelle Tenaglia (B.F.A. ’16)
Arch R. Winter Graduate Fellowship Melanie Sand (Ph.D. CRP ’19) Department of City and Regional Planning Graduate Community Service Award Adna Karabegovic (M.R.P. ’16) Annie Pease (M.R.P. ’16) John W. Reps Award Sean McGee (B.S. ’14, M.A. HPP ’16) Pamela Mikus Graduate Fellowship Zeynep Goksel ’18 (M.R.P. ’18)
Gibian Rosewater Traveling Research Award Naomi Edmark (B.A./B.F.A. ’18) Pauline Shongov (B.A./B.F.A. ’18)
Peter B. Andrews Memorial Thesis Prize Maria Brito (M.A. HPP ’15) Taru (M.R.P. ’15)
John Hartell Graduate Award for Art and Architecture Luca Spano (M.F.A. ’16)
Portman Family Graduate Student Award Alia Fierro (M.R.P. ’16)
John “Kip” Brady Memorial Award Vittoria Cutbirth (B.F.A. ’16) Xinyi Liu (B.A./B.F.A. ’16)
Robert P. Liversidge III Memorial Book Award Jessica Masters (M.R.P. ’16) Sivan Naaman (M.R.P. ’16)
Michael Rapuano Memorial Award Mariko Azis (B.A./B.F.A. ’16)
Thomas W. Mackesey Award Megan Pulver ’11 (M.R.P. ’16) Meicheng Wang (M.R.P. ’16)
CRP Addison G. Crowley Patrick Braga (B.A./B.S. URS ’17) American Institute of Certified Planners Outstanding Student Award Jaclyn Hochreiter (M.R.P. ’16)
Urban and Regional Studies Academic Achievement Award Peter Duba (B.S. URS ’16) Roya Sabri (B.A./B.S. URS ’16) Alexa Singer (B.S. URS ’16) Urban and Regional Studies Community Service Award Daniela Cardenas (B.S. URS ’16) Angela Moreno-Long (B.S. URS ’16)