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Since 1981, the SOM Foundation has supported the work of more than 325 emerging architects, landscape architects, interior architects, urban designers, and engineers. Below are the most recent recipients of the SOM Foundation's awards. A comprehensive list of all past fellows can be found here.

2023 China Fellowship

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Air Purification and Urban Strategies

Architecture has always been an ecological, political, and social practice. With air pollution seriously affecting our existence, Xianglan He will visit Denmark, Finland, Norway, and Sweden to explore how air pollution can be addressed through architecture.

Xianglan He
Hebei University School of Architecture and Art Design

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Air Justice: A Study on the Relationship Between Urban Form, Social Class, and Air Quality

Bolun Qiu will travel to Chongqing, Tokyo, and Copenhagen to study the relationship between urban form, social class, and air quality to explore how air, a natural resource with public attributes, can be distributed equally and justly to citizens.

Bolun Qiu
Chongqing University School of Architecture and Urban Planning

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Environmental Tectonics Through Air: Learning from Vernacular

Based on the nature of air (convection, radiation, humidity, and conduction), Shuaibo Shi will explore the “space-climate” mechanism of Jiangxi vernacular courtyard building.

Shuaibo Shi
Southeast University School of Architecture

2023 Structural Engineering Fellowship

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Structures that Breathe

Lydia Moog proposes to investigate different interpretations of “airiness” in structures. She will evaluate the notion of what it means for a structure to be lightweight, materially efficient, and sustainable by exploring a range of environments from rural to urban as well as current innovations and past methods through a set of case studies.

Lydia Moog
University of California, Berkeley

2023 Special Recognition for Architecture, Design, and Urban Design

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Land Narratives—Fantastic Futures

The 2023 Special Recognition for Architecture, Design, and Urban Design supports Toni L. Griffin’s Land Narratives—Fantastic Futures project as part of the 18th International Architecture Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia, The Laboratory of the Future.

2022 Research Prize

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Collective Comfort: Framing the Cooling Center as a Resiliency and Educational Hub for Communities in Desert Cities

“Collective Comfort” aims to develop a public program that rethinks the cooling center as an educational resilience hub. Furthermore, “Collective Comfort” aims to bring education on heat risk and weatherization efforts to the forefront, helping to destabilize the fossil-fuel reliant single-family home by providing alternative visions that foreground collectivity and community resilience in desert cities.

Liz Gálvez
University of California, Berkeley College of Environmental Design

Dalia Munenzon
University of Houston Gerald D. Hines College of Architecture and Design

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Taking Back the Air: Collective Learning, Advocacy, and Design for a Healthy Environment

“Taking Back the Air” asks how spatial design pedagogy and research can engage in interpretive, collaborative, and community-centered approaches to weave together the complex histories, political ecologies, material effects, modes of resistance, and everyday experiences of toxic systems to help shape better worlds.

Nida Rehman
Carnegie Mellon University School of Architecture

2022 European Research Prize

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Air de jeux: Protecting Children from Air Pollution by Designing Urban Environmental Installations

“Air de jeux” will form a partnership between the Université catholique de Louvain (UCLouvain), academics from Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), the NGO Les Chercheurs d’air, the BuildWind enterprise, and municipal representatives to propose urban environmental installations to mitigate outdoor air pollutant exposure for children.

Maider Llaguno-Munitxa
Université catholique de Louvain Faculty of Architecture, Architectural Engineering, and Urban Planning

Chiara Cavalieri
Université catholique de Louvain Faculty of Architecture, Architectural Engineering, and Urban Planning

Beatrice Lampariello
Université catholique de Louvain Faculty of Architecture, Architectural Engineering, and Urban Planning

Damien Claeys
Université catholique de Louvain Faculty of Architecture, Architectural Engineering, and Urban Planning

Gérald Ledent
Université catholique de Louvain Faculty of Architecture, Architectural Engineering, and Urban Planning

Christine Fontaine
Université catholique de Louvain Faculty of Architecture, Architectural Engineering, and Urban Planning

Geoffrey Van Moeseke
Université catholique de Louvain Faculty of Architecture, Architectural Engineering, and Urban Planning

2022 Robert L. Wesley Award

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Bria Miller

Howard University Department of Architecture

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Kai Benjamin Parel-Sewell

California State Polytechnic University, San Luis Obispo Department of Architecture

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Gabriela Robles-Muñoz

Iowa State University Department of Architecture

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