School Notes: School of Architecture
July/August 2015

Kudos for architecture students

Several students have recently won prestigious awards. Xiao Wu ’16MArch and Daphne Binder ’16MArch were named 2015 Hart Howerton Travel Fellows. These fellowships include a summer internship within the firm and three weeks of self-directed travel. Xiao will explore urban spaces that integrate food production and consumption in Italy, the Netherlands, and the United Kingdom. Daphne will study the impact of seasonal changing densities on rural areas along the East Coast of the United States.

Michelle Chen ’16MArch has won the RAMSA Traveling Fellowship for travel to India, where she will study the architectural shift from a diverse fabric of expressive design languages to a politically and ethnically neutral vocabulary. The RAMSA Travel Fellowship is awarded yearly by Robert A. M. Stern Architects. 

Charlotte Algie ’16MArch was awarded one of three 2015 KPF Traveling Fellowships to research and document the relationship between cultures and cities in Africa. Her focus will be juxtapositions between wilderness and urbanity, multicultural African societies with long tribal mythological/craft traditions, and their confrontation with western “charity” and “aesthetics of economy.” The award is sponsored by Kohn Pedersen Fox (KPF) to support exceptional and creative architecture students. 

Newest alumni win honors

Michael Robinson Cohen ’15MArch has been selected by the University of Cambridge School of Architecture as its Yale/Bass Scholar for 2015–16. Stephanie Anne Jazmines ’15MArch has won both the Gabriel Prize and a Fulbright scholarship. Awarded by the Western European Architecture Foundation, the Gabriel Prize is a grant for the study of classical architecture and landscape in France. She will use the Fulbright to study wood construction at the Alvar Aalto Wood Program in Helsinki, Finland. 

Faculty awards

Professor Peggy Deamer was awarded a Brunner Grant from the Center for Architecture to research “Architecture and the Sherman Anti-Trust Act.” Associate Professor Elihu Rubin ’99 has received a Rosenkranz Award from the Provost’s Committee on Online Education at Yale to support the creative use of technology in teaching. Adjunct professor Turner Brooks ’65, ’70MArch, won the 2015 Sidonie Miskimin Clauss Prize for Teaching Excellence in the Humanities, in recognition of his distinguished undergraduate teaching.