Open House Spring 2015
The IIT Architecture Open House and Spring Awards took place on May 8, 2015. The evening began at 5 p.m. with the Spring Award winners announcements, followed by IIT Architecture Open House exhibitions.
Student work from each program and academic year was showcased at the IIT Architecture Open House. In addition to work from undergraduate and graduate studios, visitors viewed work from the Cloud Studio, which brings together students from the various programs – B.Arch., M.Arch., MS.Arch., M.L.A., Ph.D. – to work with one another on projects related to the City of Chicago metropolitan area.
The Open House exhibition remains on display at S. R. Crown Hall until May 13, 2015.
Spring Award winners announced that night included:
PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS AND ORGANIZATIONS
AIA CHICAGO STUDENT AWARD NOMINEES
Yingu Pan, Seung Won Seo, and Istvan Van Vianen (team)
Skylar Moran
Sepideh Asadi Jouzani and Melina de Oliveira (team)
Shanglin Li, Advaith Bhaskar, and Emma Cline (team)
SCHIFF FOUNDATION FELLOWSHIP FOR ARCHITECTURE NOMINEES
Kaitlin Beckham and Richard Hands (team)
Oscar Chavez and Michael Revord (team)
Aaron Pavitt
Anna Vadacca
SCHIFF FOUNDATION FELLOWSHIP FOR CRITICAL ARCHITECTURAL WRITING NOMINEE
Keefer Dunn
ARCHITECTURAL RESEARCH CENTERS CONSORTIUM (ARCC) KING STUDENT MEDAL
Farid Abdolhossein Pour
AIA HENRY ADAMS MEDAL & CERTIFICATE
First-Ranked B.Arch.TBA
Second-Ranked B.Arch.TBA
First-Ranked M.Arch. TBA
Second-Ranked M.Arch. TBA
ALPHA RHO CHI MEDAL
Provided by the National Professional Fraternity for Architecture and the Allied Arts, to a student who has shown outstanding professional leadership TBA
UNDERGRADUATE AWARDS
DWIGHT T. BLACK SCHOLARSHIP
Kaleb Shafa
Carlos Roa
CROWN SCHOLARSHIP
Aslinur Taskin
CAMRAS SCHOLAR
Elaine Zmuda
EDSON AND FLETTA DANFORTH SCHOLARSHIP
Kurt Cheang
Il Hwan Kim
Yingu Pan, Seung Won Seo, and Istvan Van Vianen (team)
GEORGE DANFORTH TRAVELING FELLOWSHIP
Skylar Moran
SAMUEL HORWITZ MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIP
1st Year Scholarship Recipient
Sumin Oh
1st Year Honorable Mention
Paul Nagtalon, Devin Gora, Aslinur Taskin
2nd Year Scholarship Recipient
Jaehyuk Chang
2nd Year Honorable Mention
Kathleen Birk, David Walczyk, Jordan Widjaja, Caleb Vick
3rd Year Scholarship Recipient
Stephen Hsueh
3rd Year Honorable Mention
Caleb Baldwin, Matthew Borowiak, Dennis Khumbai
4th Year Scholarship Recipients
Siyu Guo, Jungsik Kim, Sudeshna Sen, and Aishwarya Keshav (team)
4th Year Honorable Mention
Ji Hun Kwon, Hyungho Joo, Yunji Chung, Shuni Wu (team)
Gabriela Culak, Brittany Boyce, and Pilar Ribot Reus (team)
SHERWIN E. SMALL ENDOWED SCHOLARSHIP
Zi Yao Li
Natalia Struk
PETERHANS VISUAL TRAINING PROJECT PRIZE
Yoeun Chung
Jing Jing Liu
Aslinur Taskin
LOUIS VUITTON SPARK AWARD
Ricardo Fernandez
GRADUATE AWARDS
NAGLE/HARTRAY SCHOLARSHIP
Sepideh Asadi Jouzani and Melina de Oliveira (team)
JOSEPH J. AND JANICE YOHANAN AWARD
Farid Abdolhossein Pour
PETERHANS VISUAL TRAINING PROJECT PRIZE
Garret Chow
PHD AWARD
BEST DISSERTATION AWARD
Matin Alaghmandan
CLOUD SCHOLARS
Eleni Aroni
Melina de Oliveira
Robert Eddie
Elizabeth Fischer
Sepideh Asadi Jouzani
Antonia Muniz
Nicole Santos
Sudeshna Sen
Jorge Serra de Frietas
Jenna Staff