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Current Fellows

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.

2019 Research Prize

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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

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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

2019 Structural Engineering Fellowship

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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

2019 UK Award

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Wetland Frontier

“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

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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

2019 China Fellowship

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Somf china prize shen jie 01 2019

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

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The Influence of Megastructure Buildings on European Urban Space

Jing Qi's research aims to explore the megastructure building's origin, development, and future based on the practice in Europe.

Jing Qi
Soochow University

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Somf china prize ziyuan zhu 02 2019

The Urban Error System: Evoking Spatial Redundancy/Residue

Ziyuan Zhu plans to travel to the Netherlands and Spain.

Ziyuan Zhu
Dalian University of Technology

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