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ProPEL Awards Selected by the College of Distinguished Professors
ACSA is pleased to announce the creation of new annual awards for the ACSA Annual Meeting. The awards program, which was initiated by the ACSA College of Distinguished Professors, will promote research, scholarship, and creative excellence by recognizing a Best Paper and Best Project presented at the ACSA Annual Meeting.
Each year a jury of College members will recommend winners and honorable mentions from highly rated submissions resulting from the Annual Meeting’s blind peer-review process. Criteria for selection follow the Annual Meeting review criteria: new and original contributions, thesis clarity, methodology, overall content, and quality of development.
The first annual award winners will present their work at the upcoming ACSA108 Virtual Conference. The winners’ abstracts and images are also available on the 2020 Architectural Education Awards page.
The winners include:
Best Paper. A Biophilic Approach to Net-Positive Design: Studio Lessons
Mary Guzowski, University of Minnesota
Best Project. Between Living and Consuming the Territory: Apan Social Housing
Marcel Sanchez-Prieto, Woodbury University
Adriana Cuellar, University of San Diego
Best Paper, Honorable Mention. Hugo Häring’s “Philosophy of Gestalt”: An Alternative Approach to Architectural Design Theory
Liyang Ding, University of Pennsylvania
Best Project, Honorable Mention. Isochronic Mountains: Mapping, Modeling, and Materializing Urban Inequities
Joshua Stein, Woodbury University
