2017 Commencement Awards MASTER OF PRESERVATION STUDIES
Commencement Awards were given
John William Lawrence Memorial Medal
at this year’s Architecture Diploma
Matthew Raybon, m.arch.
Distinguished Thesis Award
The 2017 Tulane School of Architecture
Ceremony, which took place Saturday, May 20 at Dixon Hall, preceded by a reception at Richardson Memorial Hall.
Nicole Plauché Lirette, mps
Ronald F. Katz Memorial Award Laura Carolina Gil Diaz, m.arch. Haley Kathleen Lindsley, m.arch.
Tulane 34 Award
Kelly Lauren Calhoun, mps
Jenifer Wells Megalli, m.arch. i
Outstanding Thesis Awards
Senior Scholar
Christopher Fielding Longman, m.arch. i
Gianna Marie Morelli, m.arch. Chesley Jean McCarty, m.arch.
John William Lawrence Research Fellowship
Marguerite Eugenié-Thérèse Roberts, mps
Tau Sigma Delta
Christopher Fielding Longman, m.arch. i
MASTER OF SUSTAINABLE REAL ESTATE
Christophe Blanchard, m.arch.
Lauren Welsh Taylor, m.arch. i
DEVELOPMENT
Christopher Fielding Longman, m.arch. i
Graduate Leadership Award
Academic Distinction Award
Chesley Jean McCarty, m.arch.
Jenifer Wells Megalli, m.arch. i
Scott Daniel Branta, msred
Thesis Commendations
Leadership Award
Kevin Atkinson, m.arch.
Nathan Lipson, msred
Laura Carolina Gil Diaz, m.arch.
Lauren Welsh Taylor, m.arch. i Jill Thompson, m.arch.
Sarah Narrow, M.Arch. ’18 Architecture as a Political Tool: Divisions
Outstanding Practicum Report Award
Graduate Design Excellence Award
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2017 Travel Fellowship Award Recipients
Outstanding Service to the Program Award
MASTER OF ARCHITECTURE
Robert Christopher Daemmrich, m.arch.
American Institute of Architects Medal
Katarina Dvorak, m.arch.
Outstanding Service to the Mission of the Program Award
Benjamin Aaron Feiger, m.arch.*
Daniel Feinberg, msred
Su Theng Poon, M.Arch. I ’18
Gianna Marie Morelli, m.arch.
Kristen Dorothy Hill, m.arch.
Perception Enrichment: Multisensory
Jenifer Wells Megalli, m.arch. i
Laura Carolina Gil Diaz, m.arch.
of Physical Space and Social Boundaries in Tel Aviv and Jaffa
Stimulation
Jonathan Henry House, m.arch. ii*
Research Awards
Haley Kathleen Lindsley, m.arch.*
Scott Daniel Branta, msred Water Amenities in New Orleans
Leonardo Leiva Rivera, M.Arch. I. ’18
American Institute of Architects Certificate of Merit
Christopher Fielding Longman, m.arch. i* Chesley Jean McCarty, m.arch.*
Multifamily Developments
Spaces to Mark Time
Christophe Gervais Blanchard, m.arch.
Jenifer Wells Megalli, m.arch. i*
Amy Marie Breen, msred
Regina Davis, m.arch. i
Gianna Marie Morelli, m.arch.*
Canal Street: Analyzing how to activate
Matthew Raybon, m.arch.
the potential in underutilized historic
Maria Espinoza, M.Arch. ’19 Mapping the Senses: Diagramming
Alpha Chi Rho Medal
Cassidy Lynn Rosen, m.arch. i*
buildings
Cartegena, Havana, and San Juan
Chesley Jean McCarty, m.arch.
Lauren Welsh Taylor, m.arch. i
José Alfredo Meza Fortin Jr., msred
Benjamin Lee Tulman, m.arch.
Building Performance in Central America:
Stephanie Sirhal, M.Arch ’18
Thomas J. Lupo Award
Disintegrating the Barrier: An
Matthew Raybon, m.arch.
Introducing EDGE in Honduras *Included in Thesis Exhibition
Michael Joseph Parsiola, msred
Examination into Reducing the
Flood Resilience Analysis: Southern
Prevailing Social Dilemmas in the
Louisiana
American Military via Rehabilitation of Base Infrastructure
Class of 1973 Travel Fellowship Hannah Berryhill, M.Arch. ’18 Poesía + Arquitectura: Poetry as an Analytical Response and a Generative Tool for Spacemaking
Malcolm Heard Travel Fellowship Shirley Chen, M.Arch. ’19 The Poetry of Death: Funerary Architecture in Southern Europe
Ann and Frank Masson Research Travel Fellowship Anna Marcum, MPS ’17 Artist-Designed Religious Spaces in Europe and the United States
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