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Capstone (P3)

Policy Design

Tucson, AZ

Spring 2024

Professor:

Bill Mackey

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Capstone (P3)

Critical Practice Lab

Chicago, IL

Spring 2024

Professor:

Christopher Trumble

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Capstone (P3)

(Meta)Physics of Light

Spring 2024

Professor:

Christopher Domin

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Capstone (P3)

Urban Agency

Spring 2024

New York, NY

Professor:

Beth Weinstein

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Capstone (P3)

Tectonic Inquiry

Spring 2024

White Sands, NM

Professor:

Jesus Robles

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Master's Studio Project

Chicago

Spring 2024

Professor:

Christopher Trumble

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M.Arch II

Native American and Indigenous Community Center

Spring 2024

Professor:

Laura Carr

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Urban Threshold

Tucson, AZ

Fall 2023

Professor:

Charlotte Algie

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Laura Carr

For her transformative work with native and indigenous communities.

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Siri Trumble

For her tireless work chairing the Foundation search committee.

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Courtney Crosson

Research excellence award selected by Director and Associate Dean for Research.

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Jesus Robles

Teaching excellence award nominated and voted by students.

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Michael Kothke

This award goes to a faculty or staff member that has strongly supported women students in the college through academic support, guidance, and serving as a positive role model within the past academic school year.

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Christian Walker

Kathy Le

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Alyssa Fink

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Nathaniel Kraus

Christian Walker

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Asif Zeshan

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Ezekiel Randall - Metaphysics of Light

Kedar Sitapati - Policy Design

Alexander Jacobs - Tectonic Inquiry

Seunghu Kim - Urban Agency

Malack Albargash - Critical Practice Lab

Katlynn Davis - Critical Practice Lab

Danielle Lebovitz - Critical Practice Lab

This award is given to the work that best exemplifies what the Spanish philosopher José Ortega y Gasset called a project for life: life as self-invention. Intrinsic to this notion is research and experimentation, the free and ordered play of the imagination, and a methodology that advances theoretical thinking as well as empirical demonstration. A necessary condition of the award is a clear hypothesis that tests the work for verification of fundamental aspects of the human activities of building, dwelling, and thinking. This award is nominated and voted by faculty.

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B.Arch History & Theory Stream - Alyssa Fink

B.Arch Practice Stream - Tyler Newman

B.Arch Tech. Stream - Ezekiel Randall

B.Arch Digital Comm. Stream - Alexis Campion

M.Arch History & Theory Stream - Christian Walker

M.Arch Practice Stream - Nathaniel Kraus

M.Arch Tech. Stream - Nathaniel Kraus

M.Arch Digital Comm. Stream - Christopher Doidge

This award is for one student per stream that demonstrates excellence in that knowledge domain. To present the stream awards, I invite the stream coordinators to come up to congratulate the awardees. This award is nominated and voted by stream faculty.

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Recipient - Alexander Jacobs

This award is given to the graduating student whose Capstone project best exemplifies those architectural values that Ronald Gourley represented:  simplicity, clarity, honesty, integrity, and naturalness.   The student’s project must illustrate an architecture that respects the earth and integrates positively with its local environment. This award is nominated and voted by faculty.

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Recipient - Adam Gilbreath

This award is given to one student per ARCC member college, school, institute, or unit. Selection of recipients is at the discretion of the individual member institutions, but is based upon criteria that acknowledge innovation, integrity, and scholarship in architectural and/or environmental design research.

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Recipient - Kathe Le

This medal is awarded to the graduating SoA student who has shown an outstanding ability for leadership, performed willing service to the public and the school and who shows promise of true professional merit determined by vote of the faculty.

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Principles + Precedent

Tucson, AZ

Fall 2023

Professor:

Brendan Shea

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Urban Design Option Studio

Urban Conditions
Oakland, CA

Fall 2023

Professor:

Eduardo Guerrero

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Metaphysics of Light Option Studio

Poetics of Light
White Sands, NM

Fall 2023

Professor:
Jesus Robles

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Policy Design Option Studio

Border Studio
Nogales, AZ

Fall 2023

Professor:
Teresa Rosano

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Habitat For Humanity

Spring 204

Professor:

Courtney Crosson

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Solar Decathlon

Spring 2024

Professor:
David Brubaker

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Oscar Lopez, Assoc. AIA

CAPLA Senior Lecturer

desertWORKS studio, Principal

CAPLA Events Committee Chair

Oscar Lopez, Assoc. AIA

Senior Lecturer

CAPLA Events Committee Members

Eric Weber, Ashley Simone, Noemie Despland-Lichtert, Alfredo Quezada, Khadija Didan

School of Architecture Director

Ryan Smith, PhD

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CAPLA SoA Design Excellence Honorable Mention's

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CAPLA SoA Design Excellence Honorable Mention's

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Taranm Akbary - ARC 202

Ryan Blake - ARC 302

Jed Perea - ARC 401

Adam Gilbreath - ARC 498

Nathaniel Kraus - ARC 909

Christian Walker - ARC 909

Pablo Cabanillas - ARC 410f/510f

Emme Mooday - ARC 410f/510f

Olivia Nelson - ARC 410f/510f

Jed Perea - ARC 410f/510f

Jordan West - ARC 410f/510f

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Jeffrey Stone - ARC 201

Elian Moreno - ARC 301

Sal Arellano - ARC 401

Ralph Mersiowsky - ARC 410f/510f

Freddy Arvizu - ARC 410f/510f

Alexis Campion - ARC 498

Tyler Newman - ARC 498

Elena Aubree - ARC 510e

Nathan Becenti - ARC 510e

Laura Darby - ARC 510e

Francisco Fernandez - ARC 510e

Kyle Fernetry - ARC 510e

Pete Hall - ARC 510e

Jacki Hogan - ARC 510e

Tom Leitner - ARC 510e

Tom Litchty - ARC 510e

Nico Montano - ARC 510e

Julie Polovitch - ARC 510e

Yuseph Sakr - ARC 510e

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Architectural Systems | Speculation and Integration

resourceXchange
Tucson, AZ

Fall 2023

Professor's:
Michael Kothke (studio coordinator), Laura Carr, Brian Farling, Shawn Swisher, Morgan Oster, Zachary Colbert

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Urban Housing For Equity and Diversity

Affordable Housing
Phoenix, AZ

Spring 2024

Professor's:
Eduardo Guerrero (studio coordinator), Michael Kothke, Charlotte Algie, Sheehan Wachter, Myles Pena

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Integrations of Place

Performance + Art Center

Bisbee, Arizona

Fall 2023

Professor's:
Teresa Rosano (studio coordinator), Trevor Watson, Craig Nealy, Siri Trumble, Michael Becherer

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Energy | From | Dwelling | Climate

Housing for the Unhoused
Tucson, AZ

Spring 2024

Professor's:
Siri Trumble (studio coordinator), Oscar Lopez, Trevor Watson, Teresa Rosano, Valerie Lane

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Existing Conditions

Adaptive Reuse
Tucson, AZ

Fall 2023

Professor's:
Christopher Domin (studio coordinator), Oscar Lopez, Bill Mackey, Valerie Lane, Myles Pena

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Selected Honorable Mention Project               Taranm Akbary

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Selected Honorable Mention Project               Taranm Akbary

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Dan Maher, AIA, NCARB, DBIA

Dan Maher is the 2024 AIA Southern Arizona Chapter President and Director of Architecture at GLHN Architects and Engineers in Tucson, AZ. Dan got his start working in Architect-Led Design Build firms and excels in projects that require high degrees of coordination between design teams and contractors. He is a registered architect in 7 states and a licensed general contractor in Arizona. He is former adjunct faculty at CAPLA and has reviewed at both CAPLA and at Arizona State’s Construction Management and technology Programs.

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Luis Ibarra

Luis Ibarra is a native Tucsonan and graduate of the University of Arizona College of Architecture. In 1999, founded Ibarra Rosano Design Architects, and has since earned national recognition as one of Arizona's top design firms for their modern desert architecture. Their work has been published internationally and has received over fifty regional and national design awards.

Ibarra Rosano was selected by Architecture Magazine as one of nine firms to represent their state in its issue on "the Arizona School", and their work was exhibited at the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art in its architecture and design show featuring work from six firms based in the southwest region. They were honored with Residential Architect's "Rising Star" National Leadership Award in 2008 and were recently included among 50 international firms for their "ra50: Short List of Architects We Love" for their body of work to date.

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Mark Roddy

A prolific designer throughout his career, Mark Roddy has designed projects that are widely published and hold more than 60 national and regional design awards. Roddy designs buildings that are sensitive to their environment, both in regards to sustainability and the urban fabric. This has been especially evident in his portfolio of projects in the urban southwest, where regional considerations go well beyond aesthetics and dive deep into building performance.

Mark Roddy’s philosophy of sustainable design is best evidenced in DPR Construction’s Regional Office in Phoenix, the first net-zero energy building in Arizona certified by the Living Future Institute and the Chandler City Hall in Chandler, Arizona, an AIA Committee on the Environment (COTE) Top 10 award winner. Mark lends his creative and collaborative talents to design spaces that respond to place and performance. He believes architecture should be expressive and always environmentally responsible, achieving a balance between beauty and function.

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Betsy Lynch

Betsy is a native Arizonan and graduate of the University of Arizona Architecture program.  She has focused her career as an architect on leading complex public sector projects and enjoys working with large stakeholder groups.  Betsy is an Associate Principal and Sustainability Strategist for Multistudio (formerly Gould Evans) with an emphasis on water conservation, desert climate and equitable communities.

Her recent projects include the Central Station Redevelopment, a 1,000,000 Sf multi-family mixed use project in the heart of downtown Phoenix and the Sun Devil Stadium Reinvention project for Arizona State University.

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Rick McLain

Rick is the design principal at Repp + McLain Design & Construction, a design / build firm specializing in high-craft desert appropriate architecture.  His work includes single family residential, hospitality, commercial and adaptive reuse with an emphasis on materials, assembly and innovative construction technique.

He is a past Secretary of AIA Arizona and member of ULI.  Rick holds a Bachelor of Architecture from the University of Arizona and a Master’s of Science in Architecture from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.  He lives in Tucson with his wife and 3 children.

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Team Project: Melack Albargash, Kat Davis, Danielle Lebovitz

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Team Project: Melack Albargash, Kat Davis, Danielle Lebovitz

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Selected Winning Project: Alexis Campion

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Selected Winning Project: Alexis Campion

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Selected Honorable Mention Project: Adam Gilbreath

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Selected Honorable Mention Project: Adam Gilbreath

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Selected Honorable Mention Project:                  Team Project: Nathaniel Kraus, Christian Walker

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Selected Honorable Mention Project:                  Team Project: Nathaniel Kraus, Christian Walker

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Selected Winning Project: Studio Project: Elena Aubree, Nathan Becenti, Laura Darby, Francisco Fernandez, Kyle Fernetry, Pete Hall, Jackie Hogan, Tom Leitner, Tom Litchty, Nico Montano, Julie Polovitch, Yuseph Sakr

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Selected Winning Project: Studio Project: Elena Aubree, Nathan Becenti, Laura Darby, Francisco Fernandez, Kyle Fernetry, Pete Hall, Jackie Hogan, Tom Leitner, Tom Litchty, Nico Montano, Julie Polovitch, Yuseph Sakr

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Selected Winning Project: Team Project: Ralph Mersiowsky, Freddy Arvizu

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Selected Winning Project: Team Project: Ralph Mersiowsky, Freddy Arvizu

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Team Project: Emily Kulka, Souhayla Farag

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Team Project: Emily Kulka, Souhayla Farag

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Selected Honorable Mention Project:                Team Project: Pablo Cabanillas, Emme Mooday, Olivia Nelson, Jed Perea, Jordan West

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Selected Honorable Mention Project:                Team Project: Pablo Cabanillas, Emme Mooday, Olivia Nelson, Jed Perea, Jordan West

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ARC 410F_Solar Decathlon Project Statement

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Prof. Shawn Swisher & Prof. Brian Farling

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Selected Honorable Mention Project                          Jed Perea     

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Selected Honorable Mention Project                          Jed Perea     

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Selected Honorable Mention Project                     Ryan Blake

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Selected Honorable Mention Project                     Ryan Blake