Winners Announced for 2022 Steel Competition

For Immediate Release:
Washington, D.C., August 19, 2022 – The American Institute of Steel Construction (AISC) and the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA) are pleased to announce the winners of the 2022 Steel Design Student Competition.

The competition recognizes 14 exceptional projects, in two categories, that explore a variety of design issues related to the use of steel in design and construction. The 2022 ACSA/AISC Steel Design Student Competition offered architecture students the opportunity to compete in two separate categories. Category I challenged students to critically consider novel approaches towards a new monumentality and the conception and creation of democratic public spaces for the twenty-first century. Category II was open, offering students the opportunity to select a site and building program using steel as the primary material.

The winning projects were chosen by a panel of distinguished jurors:

Category I: Towards a New Monumentality, Jury
    Julian Bonder, Roger Williams University
    Amanda Dean, Walter P Moore
    Mark Gardner, Parsons School of Design

Category II: Open, Jury
    Mohamed Ismail, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    Soo Jeong Jo, Louisiana State University
    Eric Lumpkin, Thornton Tomasetti

Category I, the jurors chose two First Place winners, along with four Honorable Mentions. Listed below are the names of the recipients, their project titles, and their faculty sponsor(s):

CATEGORY I: TOWARDS A NEW MONUMENTALITY WINNERS 

First Place: Forest of Conscience: A Civic Device for Hyper-Social Media
Students: Isis Orduno & Conny Salazar
Faculty Sponsor: Gerard Smulevich
Institution: Woodbury University

First Place: Indigenous Lives Memorial
Students: Kristyan Calletor & Mathieu Howard
Faculty Sponsor: Vincent Hui
Institution: Ryerson University

Honorable Mention: Chamizal Union
Students: Sam Ruan & Noel Parra
Faculty Sponsor: Candid Rogers
Institution: The University of Texas at San Antonio

Honorable Mention: Strange Fruit: Peace and Justice Center for Dialogue
Students: Nastassia Chua, Rebekah Mireles, & Sharon Lott
Faculty Sponsor: Sheryl Tucker Vazquez
Institution: University of Houston

Honorable Mention: Alt. City Hall
Students: Vanessa Romo & Dario Salgado
Faculty Sponsor: Gerard Smulevich
Institution: Woodbury University

Honorable Mention: A Democratic Forum Between the Walls
Students: Kaicheng Zhuang & Tianhui Li
Faculty Sponsor: Richard Rosa
Institution: Syracuse University

Category II, the jurors chose First, Second, and Third place winners, along with five Honorable Mentions. Listed below are the names of the recipients, their project titles, and their faculty sponsor(s):

CATEGORY II: OPEN WINNERS

First Place: Tomols
Student: Ron Patanavin
Faculty Sponsor: Thomas Fowler
Institution: California Polytechnic State University

Second Place: Furniture Museum, Creation + Display
Student: Randolph Allison
Faculty Sponsor: Daniel Brown
Institution: Savannah College of Art and Design

Third Place: The California Shotgun House
Student: Bryce Humbrecht
Faculty Sponsors: Gary Gilbert, Tara Street, & Kristopher Palagi
Institution: Louisiana State University

Honorable Mention: GrabHub
Students: Nicholas Chung & Chenhao Luo
Faculty Sponsor: Daekwon Park
Institution: Syracuse University

Honorable Mention: Arrival
Student: Matt Yearout
Faculty Sponsor: Awilda Rodriguez Carrion
Institution: Oklahoma State University

Honorable Mention: Water Museum – W/M
Student: Karalina Shastavets
Faculty Sponsor: Daniel Brown
Institution: Savannah College of Art and Design

Honorable Mention: Aspire
Students: Madison Waldron & Jacob Forst
Faculty Sponsors: Pasquale De Paola, Kevin Singh, & Wei Zhao
Institution: Louisiana Tech University

Honorable Mention: The Metaphysical Museum of Reality
Student: Daniel Jaraba
Faculty Sponsor: Daniel Brown
Institution: Savannah College of Art and Design

About AISC
The American Institute of Steel Construction (AISC), headquartered in Chicago, is a non-partisan, not-for-profit technical institute and trade association established in 1921 to serve the structural steel design community and construction industry in the United States. AISC’s mission is to make structural steel the material of choice by being the leader in structural-steel-related technical and market-building activities, including: specification and code development, research, education, technical assistance, quality certification, standardization, market development, and advocacy. AISC has a long tradition of service to the steel construction industry providing timely and reliable information. For more information, visit www.aisc.org.

About ACSA
Founded in 1912 by 10 charter members, the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture is an international association of architecture schools preparing future architects, designers, and change agents. ACSA’s full members include all of the accredited professional degree programs in the United States and Canada, as well as international schools and 2- and 4-year programs. Together, ACSA schools represent 7,000 faculty educating more than 40,000 students. The mission of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture is to lead architectural education and research. ACSA seeks to empower faculty and schools to educate increasingly diverse students, expand disciplinary impacts, and create knowledge for the advancement of architecture. For more information, visit www.acsa-arch.org.

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