GSD award winners named

The following awards were presented at the Harvard Graduate School of Design (GSD) during June Commencement.

GSD awards were given to the following master in design studies candidates: Ioannis Ignatakis (Gerald M. McCue Medal), Francisco Gonzalez de Canales (Dimitris Pikionis Award), and Andrew Wells Baccon (Digital Design Prize).

University awards were conferred on Andrew Jonathan Witt, master in architecture (John E. Thayer Scholarship), and Kevin Richard Bunker, master in urban planning (Howard T. Fisher Prize in Geographic Information Science).

Frederick Sheldon Traveling Fellowships were awarded to

Andrew Jonathan Witt, master in architecture, and David Jason Gerber, doctor of design (a 2004-05 fellowship recipient, Gerber traveled to the United Kingdom and Europe). Witt also received the American Institute of Architect’s Medal.

The institute presented its certificate of merit to Grace Mun Wah Leung, master in architecture.

The Alpha Rho Chi Medal was given to Sarah Jacob and Ying Zhou (both master in architecture candidates).

The James Templeton Kelley Prize was conferred on Andrew Wells Baccon, master in architecture.

The Julia Amory Appleton Traveling Fellowship was awarded to Anna Aleksandrovna Neimark, master in architecture.

The Kevin V. Kieran Prize was bestowed on Jeremy James DeCarteret Tate, master in architecture.

Department of Architecture Faculty Design Awards were given to Julie Hui-Guang Kaufman (M.Arch. I) and Russell David Crader II (M.Arch. II).

The Department of Landscape Architecture awarded its

Charles Eliot Traveling Fellowship to Philippa Brashear, master in landscape architecture/master in urban planning (Lauren Therese Lynn, master in landscape architecture/master in urban planning, was selected as the alternate). Additionally, the department awarded its Peter Walker and Partners Fellowship for Landscape Architecture to Jason Akio Shinoda, master in landscape architecture. The department’s Jacob Weidenman Prize, meanwhile, was given to Luis Alberto Matanzo Vazquez, master in landscape architecture.

The American Society of Landscape Architecture (ASLA) awarded its certificate of honor to Nayla Michel Al-Akl and Adalie Pierce-McManamon (both master’s students in landscape architecture). ASLA’s certificate of merit was awarded to Matthew Mearl Gillen, master in landscape architecture, and Lauren Therese Lynn, master in landscape architecture/master in urban planning. The society’s Norman T. Newton Prize was conferred on Tzufen Liao, master in landscape architecture.

The Department of Urban Planning and Design conferred its award for Academic Excellence in Urban Planning on Kevin Richard Bunker, master in urban planning. The department’s award for Academic Excellence in Urban Design was conferred on David Anthony Brown, master in architecture/master of architecture in urban design. The Award for Outstanding Leadership in Urban Planning, meanwhile, was given to

Leah Marie Murphy, master in urban planning, and Christopher David White, master in urban planning/master in architecture. The department’s Award for Outstanding Leadership in Urban Design was given to James William Carse Jr., master of architecture in urban design. The department’s Urban Planning and Design Thesis Prize, meanwhile, was given to David Anthony Brown, master in architecture/master of architecture in urban design. Richard James Broene, master in urban planning/master in architecture, received the Druker Traveling Fellowship. Finally, the department’s Ferdinand Colloredo-Mansfeld Prize for Superior Achievement in Real Estate Studies went to Kevin Richard Bunker, master in urban planning.