May 24, 2023
Fifth-year APDesign architecture graduate students honored with Heintzelman and Kremer prizes.
Fifth-year architecture graduate students in Kansas State University's College of Architecture, Planning & Design have been honored with the Heintzelman and Kremer prizes.
The Heintzelman Prize is presented annually for outstanding individual design achievements by students in the final semester of the professional Master of Architecture degree program.
The 2023 winner is Abigail Hutchinson, New Castle, Colorado, Master of Architecture graduate, for her project "Santa Fe Permaculture Institute," completed in the fifth-year architectural design studio led by Bob Condia, professor of architecture.
Also nominated for the Heintzelman Prize was Duc Nguyen, Shawnee, for his project "Boat Wake Energy Research Center," completed in the fifth-year architectural design studio led by Assistant Professor Grant Alford in collaboration with Vincent L. Snyder, Professor of Architecture at UT Austin and the 2022-2023 Ekdahl Family Visiting Professor.
The Heintzelman Prize is named after J. Cranston Heintzelman, a longtime educator in the university's architecture department. After earning a Master of Architecture from Columbia University, Heintzelman moved to Manhattan in 1947 to begin a distinguished career teaching architectural design, sculpture and design theory. The Heintzelman Prize has been awarded by the faculty each year since Heintzelman's retirement in 1983.
The Kremer Prize is awarded for outstanding collaborative design achievements by students in the final semester of the professional Master of Architecture program.
This year's winning team was the Design+Make Studio with the project "Learning from the Yucatan," conducted in the fifth-year architectural design studio led by David Dowell and Ted Arendes, el dorado, inc. in collaboration with Estudio Macias Peredo, the 2022-2023 Victor L. Regnier Distinguished Vising Professors. The studio included Oluchi Amakoh, Sam Brazell, Richelle Brunner, Leandra Fischer, Madeleine Gillispie, Anna Hartley, Maggie Jaques, Brian King, Jordan Pollart, Eliza Shrestha, Dillon Tripamer, Connor Vining and Edward Walters.
The following Master of Architecture graduates were Kremer Prize nominees.
Students from Associate Professor Genevieve Baudoin's studio for the project titled "Native Title: On Understanding Country, a Land Magistrate's Court" were Timothy Ahn, Nathan Alford, Enrique Alvarado-Corral, Samuel Carlson, Simon Degrace, Hannah Fowler, Kayla Hermsmeier, Chase Mason, Emily Nelson, Alexa Radley, Natalie Roberts, Ryne Roemer, Alexa Root and Trenton Zuhlke.
Students from Assistant Professor Zhan Chen's studio for the project titled "u belong, a multifamily housing proposal" were Jada Rezac and Margaret Phillips.
Students from the Kansas City Design Center studio led by Professor Vladimir Krstic for the project titled "West Bottoms in Three Parts" were Jacob Bandy, Michael Bezanson, Trey Freel, Max Harrington, Alaina Holmes, Hema Ling, Anne Pham, Liam Reusser and Yingdong Zhang.
The 2023 Heintzelman + Kremer Jury included Robert McCarter, professor of architecture at Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri; Suchi Reddy, founder of Reddymade Architecture & Design, New York City, New York; and Jeffrey Day, professor of architecture, University of Nebraska and founding partner of Actual Architecture, Lincoln, Nebraska.
The 2023 Heintzelman + Kremer jury was underwritten by GLMV Architecture, Wichita. With offices in Kansas City and Houston, GLMV Architecture has long been an outstanding partner of K-State, APDesign and the architecture department.