School of Architecture and Environment Award

The School of Architecture and Environment Award recognizes presentations in all formats focused on a topic in Architecture, Environmental Design, Historic Preservation, Interior Architecture, and/or Landscape Architecture. Submissions will be evaluated based on research quality, significance and impact, and presentation quality. 

Eligibility Criteria: Current UO undergraduate student from SAE. 

Awards (one (1) each): School of Architecture & Environment Award, Architecture Honorable Mention Award, Environmental Design Honorable Mention Award, Interior Architecture Honorable Mention Award, Landscape Architecture Honorable Mention Award

Current Recipients

Beatrix Carrott '29, Cocoro Darby '29, Alessandra Martinez '29
Major: Architecture Interior 
Project: "The Butterfly House - Prefabricated Multi Paneled Plywood Housing "
2026 Interior Architecture Award

Miles Hagen '27 & Megan Henry '26
Major: Architecture 
Project: "Envisioning Middle Housing in Major Oregon Cities"
2026 Architecture Award

Gaia Landsman '28, Jenny Le '28, Isaac Nystrom Rice '28, Maggie Tegtmeyer '28 & Lillian Wesse '27
Major: Architecture
Project: "Wood Morphologies - Ultralight Curved Wood Surfaces"
2026 School of Architecture & Environment Award

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Prior Recipients

Yash Akhouri '23
Major: Architecture 
Project: "Living Lady Lawrence" 
2023 Award

Liv Anderson '26
Major: Architecture
Project: "Stacks"
2025 Honorable Mention Award

Adriann Bechtle & Rheata Kumala
Major: Architecture 
Project: "Museum of Stolen Land: Problematizing American Colonialism Through Architectural Design
2021 Award

Helene Brehl '25
Major: Architecture
Project: "Tubular Veneer Timber - A high performance, deployable, wood building component"
2024 Award: Design and Science

Helene Brehl '26, Julianne Burdis '26 & Ri Zarate '25
Major: Architecture (Brehl, Burdis & Zarate)
Project: "Tubular timber: structural testing and flat pack self-shaping structural component"
2025 Architecture Award

Blaine Brennan '26
Major: Architecture Interior
Project: "The Balancing Act"
2024  Interior Architecture Award

Jack Burnett '25, Peter-George Fillo '26, Jeffery Jakubenas '28 & Andrew Spriggs '26
Major: Environmental Design (Burnett, Fillo & Spriggs) | Art & Technology (Jakubenas)
Project: "Genius Loci (Spirit of Place)"
2025 School of Architecture & Environment Award

Aileen Carrillo '27
Major: Architecture Interior
Project: "The iLEAN Chair"
2024 Award: Built Work

Tiare Cockcroft  '26
Major: Architecture Interior
Project: "Riley Hall Revamp | Returning to the 60's"
2024 Award: Design Studio Research

Madison Coultrap '27, Hanna Gibson '27 & Georgia Manning '27
Major: Architecture (Coultrap, Gibson & Manning)
Project: "UNBE-LEAF-ABLE AIR!"
2024 Honorable Mention Award: Creativity

Gemma Fucigna & Andrew Newbold
Major: Architecture 
Project: "The Laboratory for Architecture and Building - Uniting academics, ecological design, and community
2021 Award

Paige Gordon '24, Zach Mathews '25, Michael Colucci '25 & Braden Lawrie '24
Majors: Architecture (Gordon, Mathews, Colucci & Lawrie)
Project: "Waste Utilization Panels -An upcycling strategy for high performance point supported timber slabs"
2024 Honorable Mention Award: Design Studio Research

Megan Henry '26
Major: Architecture
Project: "Georgetown Community for Special Needs"
2025 Honorable Mention Award

Charlotte Kamman '25
Major: Architecture
Project: "Mycelium Bio-Composite Acoustic Isolation Materials for Mass Timber Floor and Ceiling Assemblies"
2024 Honorable Mention Award: Design and Science

Jillian Kellett
Major: Architecture 
Project: "Capitol Hill Arts Alliance: A Center for Visual and Performing Artists in the Wake of the Pandemic"
2021 Award

Braden Lawrie '24
Major: Architecture 
Project: "Locking Bilayer Assemblies, Self-Shaping Long Span Mass Timber Vaults"
2023 Award

Alyssa Medici '26
Major: Architecture Interior
Project: "Urban Exclusion: Gentrification, Privatization, & the Rise of Hostile Architecture in Eugene, Oregon"
2025 Honorable Mention Award

Miriel Orhai '25
Major: Landscape Architecture
Project: "Ecological Mapping for the Enhancement of Amazon Creek"
2025 Architecture Award

Rigel Wakil  '24
Major: Architecture 
Project: "Measuring Human Emotional Response to Architectural Materials in Daylighting Conditions"
2024 Architecture Award

Max Weisenbloom '23
Major: Architecture 
Project: "Barriers to Creating and Accessing Affordable Housing in Portland, Oregon"
2023 Award

Rilynn Zarate '25
Major: Architecture 
Project: "How to Tie a Wood Knot"
2024 Architecture & Environment Award

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