ALUMNI NEWS
Alumni Updates Morris Adjmi, FAIA, M.Arch ’83, received the 2023 Angela O’Byrne Alumni Award at our May 20 Diploma Ceremony (See our story on Page 34), and won the ICFF Designer of the Year Award. Muhanad AlFardan, MSRED *19, delivered a TEDx presentation in Cairo, Egypt, where he spoke about findings from his research about self-driving cars and their influence on urban housing. He analyzes that autonomous vehicles could minimize the need for parking in compact areas, creating space for affordable housing developments. Calla Bardwell, M.Arch/MSRED *17, has joined the AIA Louisiana Associates and Emerging Professionals Committee while also Co-Chairing the AIA New Orleans Small Firm Exchange. Michelle Barrett M.Arch ’19 and Caroline Garfield, B.Arch/MSRED ’20 were recently promoted at Multistudio, an architecture, brand expe-
Muhanad AlFardan (MSRED *19) presents at TEDx in Egypt rience, city design, education design, and interiors firm founded to serve complex, and even contradictory needs of clients and communities. Michelle was promoted to Senior Associate in their Kansas City office, and Caroline was promoted to Associate in their New Orleans office.
Michelle Barrett, M.Arch ’19, and Chris Daemmrich, M.Arch ’17, received a Graham Foundation grant for their work with Emergent Grounds for Design Education (EGDE), a collective they co-facilitate with UVA Architecture alum My-Anh Nguyen. EGDE is a co-generated archive of ongoing student and alumni work to organize for antiracist, feminist education in the built environment and design professions. Two alumni-led firms were listed among the AN Interior Top 50 firms for 2022: Assembledge+, led by David Thompson (M.Arch ’91, Dean’s Advisory Council member), and SO-IL, led by Jing Liu, M.Arch ’04. Several other firms on the list have alumni on staff, including Deborah Burke Partners, Brooks + Scarpa, HASTINGS, Olson Kundig, and Utile.
Las Americas Social Housing project, designed by SO-IL in 2016
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Alumnus and former professor Robert P. Dean Jr., FAIA, M.Arch ’68, was inducted into the Paul Tulane Society, which honors generous