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The Graduate Studio Excellence Award recognizes excellence in architectural design among students in the Master of Architecture Program at the University of Illinois.  The awardees are determined through a special jury of design projects nominated by faculty from each graduate studio at the end of each semester.  The school's nomination to the Chicago Prize awards judging each year is chosen from those recognized by this award.

Raj Indhana (1st Place, 57X Building Scale)

Raj Indhana (1st Place, 57X Building Scale)

Raj Indhana (1st Place, 57X Building Scale)

Chandana Mahale image

Chandana Mahale (1st Place, 57X Building Scale)

Chandana Mahale (1st Place, 57X Building Scale)

Chawin Wongsrisoontorn image

Chawin Wongsrisoontorn (2nd Place, 57X Building Scale)

Chawin Wongsrisoontorn (2nd Place, 57X Building Scale)

Sree Vanadana image

Sree Vandana Bedalam (2nd Place, 57X Building Scale)

Sree Vandana Bedalam (2nd Place, 57X Building Scale)

Kara O'Hearn image

Kara O’Hearn (3rd Place, 57X Building Scale)

Kara O’Hearn (3rd Place, 57X Building Scale)

Hayley Metz image

Hayley Metz (3rd Place, 57X Building Scale)

Hayley Metz (3rd Place, 57X Building Scale)

Adam Czapla image

Adam Czapla (3rd Place, 57X Building Scale)

Adam Czapla (3rd Place, 57X Building Scale)

Raj Indhana (1st Place, 57X Building Scale)

Raj Indhana (1st Place, 57X Building Scale)

Raj Indhana (1st Place, 57X Building Scale)

Chandana Mahale image

Chandana Mahale (1st Place, 57X Building Scale)

Chandana Mahale (1st Place, 57X Building Scale)

Chawin Wongsrisoontorn image

Chawin Wongsrisoontorn (2nd Place, 57X Building Scale)

Chawin Wongsrisoontorn (2nd Place, 57X Building Scale)

Sree Vanadana image

Sree Vandana Bedalam (2nd Place, 57X Building Scale)

Sree Vandana Bedalam (2nd Place, 57X Building Scale)

Kara O'Hearn image

Kara O’Hearn (3rd Place, 57X Building Scale)

Kara O’Hearn (3rd Place, 57X Building Scale)

Hayley Metz image

Hayley Metz (3rd Place, 57X Building Scale)

Hayley Metz (3rd Place, 57X Building Scale)

Adam Czapla image

Adam Czapla (3rd Place, 57X Building Scale)

Adam Czapla (3rd Place, 57X Building Scale)

Garduate Studio Excellence Award - 2023 Spring Semester

  • Building Scale

    • First Prize: Raj Indhana & Chandana Mahale (Scott Murray)
    • Second Prize: Chawin Wongsrisoontorn, Sree Vandana Bendalam & Ruimin Du (Yun Kyu Yi)
    • Third Prize: Kara O’Hearn, Hayle Metz & Adam Czapla (Botond Bognar)
    • Honorable Mention: Anushree Parkhi & Urvi Varma (Yun Kyu Yi)
    • Honorable Mention: Michelle Martinez & Patrick Dillon (Thomas Leslie)

    Urban Scale

    • First Prize: Sparsh Rastogi (David J. Isern)
    • Second Prize: Nithya Balachandar & Shamika Patil (Sara Bartumeus)
    • Third Prize: Siddhi Patke (David Chasco)
    • Honorable Mention: Frida Palacios, Bryan Cruz López & Amir Zarei (Patricia Saldaña-Natke)
Kabir Dole image

Kabir Dole (1st Place, Material Studies & Small/Medium Scale)

Kabir Dole (1st Place, Material Studies & Small/Medium Scale)

Harshini image

Harshini Rama Shankari Jaya Varanasi (1st Place, Material Studies & Small/Medium Scale)

Harshini Rama Shankari Jaya Varanasi (1st Place, Material Studies & Small/Medium Scale)

Michael Chan image

Michael Chan (1st Place, Large Scale)

Michael Chan (1st Place, Large Scale)

Urvi Varma Image

Urvi Vinay Varma (1st Place, Large Scale)

Urvi Vinay Varma (1st Place, Large Scale)

Zoya image

Zoya Chaudary (1st Place, Urban Scale & Master Planning)

Zoya Chaudary (1st Place, Urban Scale & Master Planning)

Shrinidhi image

Shrinidhi Murugavel (1st Place, Urban Scale & Master Planning)

Shrinidhi Murugavel (1st Place, Urban Scale & Master Planning)

Kabir Dole image

Kabir Dole (1st Place, Material Studies & Small/Medium Scale)

Kabir Dole (1st Place, Material Studies & Small/Medium Scale)

Harshini image

Harshini Rama Shankari Jaya Varanasi (1st Place, Material Studies & Small/Medium Scale)

Harshini Rama Shankari Jaya Varanasi (1st Place, Material Studies & Small/Medium Scale)

Michael Chan image

Michael Chan (1st Place, Large Scale)

Michael Chan (1st Place, Large Scale)

Urvi Varma Image

Urvi Vinay Varma (1st Place, Large Scale)

Urvi Vinay Varma (1st Place, Large Scale)

Zoya image

Zoya Chaudary (1st Place, Urban Scale & Master Planning)

Zoya Chaudary (1st Place, Urban Scale & Master Planning)

Shrinidhi image

Shrinidhi Murugavel (1st Place, Urban Scale & Master Planning)

Shrinidhi Murugavel (1st Place, Urban Scale & Master Planning)

2023 Fall Semester

Material Studies & Small/Medium Scale

  • Grand Prize: Karbi Dole & Harshini Varanasi (Prof. Tom Leslie)
  • Honorable Mention: Madison Luyn Bowman, Jonathan Guttello & Noushin Anjum (Prof. Nilufar Emami)
  • Honorable Mention: Shamita Honawar (Prof. Kelly Bair)
  • Honorable Mention: Shrilaxmi Rajeev Nair & Anish Kumar Sahu (Prof. Niloufar Emami)

Large Scale

  • Grand Prize: Michael Chan & Urvi Varma (Prof. Scott Murray)
  • Honorable Mention: Omar Abunnaja & Jasbir Bhamra (Prof. Botond Bognar)
  • Honorable Mention: Brooks Neumann (Prof. Jeff Poss)
  • Honorable Mention: Anushree Parkhi (Prof. Pat Saldaña-Natke)

Urban Scale & Master Planning

  • Grand Prize: Zoya Chaudary & Shrinidhi Murugavel (Prof. Kevin Hinders)
  • Honorable Mention: Ayushi Sawalka & Daniela Paez Castro (Prof. Sara Bartumeus)
  • Honorable Mention: Gayatri Pandkar (Prof. Ellen Dunham-Jones & Didem Ekici)
  • Honorable Mention: Kendra Shouse (Prof. Paul Kapp)
  • Honorable Mention: Jack Muno (Prof. Kevin Erickson)

Fall 2022 Winners

Metropolitan Scale

  • First Prize: Tasmia Kamal & Brian Cruz (Sara Bartumeus)
  • Honorable Mention: Makenzie Jarvis & Bridget Benge (Sara Bartumeus)

Detail Scale

  • First Prize: Stuti Bhardwaj & Elle Dietz (Niloufar Emami)
  • Honorable Mention: Charlotte Elo & Radhika Dhekne (Joseph Altshuler)

High Rise

  • First Prize: Khurtsbileg Erdenetsogt (Pat Saldaña-Natke & Soumya Dasgupta)
  • Honorable Mention: Nithyashree Balachandar Iyer, Anushree Parkhi & Hrushikesh Chavan (Paul Armstrong)

Urban Intervention

  • First Prize: Alysa Guede (Benjamin Bross)
  • Honorable Mention: Adam Czapla & Owen Balk (Tom Leslie)

Adaptive Reuse

  • First Prize: Anna Lubmann & Soham Dongre (Trina Sandschafer & Kahler Slater Team)
  • Honorable Mention: Richa Maru & Yashaswini Karagaiah (Trina Sandschafer & Kahler Slater Team)

Spring 2022 Winners

House/Small Scale

Winner

Soham Dongre (Faculty: David Chasco)

Honorable Mention

Nithyashree Balachandar (Faculty: David Chasco)

Mixed-use/Mid-scale

Winner

Michael Rivera, Sakshi Sharma, and Sneha Nallagonda (Faculty: Botond Bognar)

Honorable Mention

Amir Zarei, Charlotte Elo, and Daeun Lee (MLA) (Faculty: Joseph Altshuler)

Urban/Large scale

Winner

Kara O’Hearn, Mansi Sanghvi, and Kaitlyn Baker (Faculty: Sara Bartumeus)

Honorable Mention

Chris Klawitter, Jackson Bochat, and Hayley Metz (Faculty: Sara Bartumeus)

Fall 2021 Winners

First Place

Amir Zarei (Faculty: Erik Hemingway)

Second Place

Wesley Gonzalez-Colon, Sakshi Sharma, and Soham Dongre (Faculty: Yun Kyu Yi)

Third Place

Stuti Bhardwaj, Khurtsbileg Erdenetsogt, and Paul Huspenina (Faculty: Paul Armstrong)

Honorable Mentions

  • Katherine Fedoronko and Rebecca Torres Torres (Faculty: Botond Bognar)
  • Joan-Shen Huang, Masumi Thakkar, and Ruihang Zhu (Faculty: Alejandro Lapunzina)

Spring 2021 Winners

First Place Tie

  • Bryan Samuel & Francisco Hernández (Murray)
  • Maria Pozo & Adele Isyanamanova (Bartumeus)
  • Tasmia Kamal & César Gómez (Bartumeus)

Honorable Mentions

  • Cassie Xu & Huangruoyi Fang (Hammann)
  • Jesse Han (Bollo/Sandschafer)
  • Taisuke Wakabayashi & Emily Tejeda Vargas (Bognar)
  • Diego Huacuja, Hakeem Barre & Jehlani Pace (Bollo/Sandschafer)
  • Joshua Hakimian & Wesley González-Colón (Bognar)

Fall 2020 Winners

First Place

Andrew Radford & Rani Haydar Abdallah Zaid Kaylani (Vidal)

Second Place

Andrew Chun-An Wei & Huong Dinh (Dharwadker)

Third Place

  • Hakeem Barre & Yuxi Lu (Vidal)
  • Shweta Krishnan & Yue Shi (Bliss/Sandschafer)

Honorable Mentions

  • Juan Pazmino (Chasco)
  • Wesley González-Colon & Sheng Li (Hammann)
  • Agnieszka Tomasiewicz (Loew)

Spring 2020 Winners

First Place

Shweta Krishnan & Bryan Samuel (Bartumeus)

Second Place

Riad Wehbi (Hinders)

Third Place

Maria Emilia Pozo (Chasco)

Honorable Mentions

  • Sharanya Reddy & Ravideep Singh (Worn)
  • Raksha Satish Babu Magal & Xinran Zheng (Hammann)
  • Ruiqing Zhou & Daniela Beerens (Bognar)

Fall 2019 Winners

ARCH 471: Fundamentals of Architectural Design

First Place

Andrew Wei (Lewis)

ARCH 57X: Elective Graduate Studios

First Place

Mu-Yen Lee, Teng Long, Ji Young Song (Armstrong)

Second Place

Riad Wehbi (Erickson and Reddy)

Third Place

Ashish Dandekar, Marilia Gomes de sa Ribeiro, Michael Kurek, Ramya Pattanur Vasudevan (Kim)

Honorable Mentions

  • Ishan Rakshit (Taylor)
  • Andi Saban, Prajakta Gharpure, Kriti Chaudhry (Bliss)
  • Imani Jackson (Lewis)
  • Zachary Campbell (Kapp)

Spring 2019 Winners

First Place

Colter Wehmeier (Bognar/Dong)

Second Place

Aditi Mukherjee and Shuqin Xu (Murray)

Third Place

Esraa Aljawi and Sara Almaghlouth (Emmons)

Honorable Mentions

  • Cyrus Amani and Ella Berger
  • Andres Pinto and Sara Parham
  • Adam Bengston
  • Kamini Chavda
  • Meghana Dutt
  • Raphael Glaser
  • Cody Harvey
  • Dikshit Mahaveer Chand
  • Conor Schafer
  • Doowon Son
  • Chaoran Wang
  • Yijia Zhao

Fall 2018 Winners

First Place

Ali Gholamabbas and Nico Hsu (Tierney)

Second Place

Cody Harvey, Michael Najder, and Chaoran Wang (Armstrong)

Third Place

Aditi Mukherjee (Kang)

Honorable Mentions

  • Yijia Zhao (Hemingway)
  • Oliver Kuntz and Peter Schumacher (Loew)

Spring 2018 Winners

ARCH 472: Architectural Design in Landscape and Cities

First Place

Yijia Zhao (Armstrong)

Honorable Mention

Stephanie McNicholas (Armstrong)

ARCH 57X: Elective Graduate Studio

First Place

Shannon Fitzgerald and Srushti Nehete (Murray)

Second Place

Sowmya Singh and Marc Ponce Pujols (Hammann)

Third Place

Alex Brosh (Chasco)

Honorable Mention

Ivana Rakshit and Yang Li (Murray)

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