Since 1981, the SOM Foundation has supported the work of over 250 emerging architects, landscape architects, 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.
The Right to Sewage: Digesting Mexico City in the Mezquital Valley
Almost 200,000 acres of land in the fertile Mezquital Valley are irrigated with the untreated sewage of Mexico City. The project will ask what hydraulic, soil, ecosystem, social, and policy conditions can increase chances for success and what its prospects for socio-ecological sustainability are.
Montserrat Bonvehi Rosich
Harvard University
Graduate School of Design
Seth Denizen
Harvard University
Graduate School of Design
David Moreno Mateos
Harvard University
Graduate School of Design
Hot Farms: How Emails Grow Tomatoes
“Hot Farms” proposes the research, design, and development of high-density food production, in the form of automated green house agriculture on the periphery of Dublin, Ireland that piggybacks on the data storage economy in the region.
Clare Lyster
University of Illinois at Chicago
School of Architecture
A Case Study of the Cities of Japan
This fellowship studies how cities in Japan have coped with urbanization and the humanization of that density, which is representative of a global problem of overpopulated cities.
Samantha Eng
University of California, Berkeley
SEED of Havana: Dissolving Condensers
The thesis takes a theoretical approach to invigorate the revolution aspirations and proposes integrated adaptive reuse as a sustainable alternative for urban regeneration.
Sun Yen Yee
University of Westminster, London
“Wetland Frontier” aims to facilitate the regeneration of New Orleans's Lower Ninth Ward community and the adjacent Bayou Bienvenue Wetland Triangle—both currently ghosts of their former selves after historical neglect and segregation.
Annabelle Tan
University College London
Bartlett School of Architecture
High-Density Habitation: Urban Planning and Residential Building
Shen Jie will visit seven countries in Latin America to research high-density habitation.
Shen Jie
Southeast University
The Influence of Megastructure Buildings on European Urban Space
This research aims to explore the megastructure building's origin, development, and future based on the practice in Europe.
Jing Qi
Soochow University
The Urban Error System: Evoking Spatial Redundancy/Residue
Ziyuan Zhu plans to travel to the Netherlands and Spain.
Ziyuan Zhu
Dalian University of Technology
