2024-2025 Design Excellence Winners

Each summer, fall, and spring, studio and fabrication course instructors nominate up to two projects to participate in the Design Excellence process. Following spring final reviews, the Design Excellence Jury reviews all summer, fall, and spring Design Excellence nominees to select the Design Excellence Winners for the academic year. These student projects represent an exceptional level of accomplishment across our design disciplines and studio levels. 

Congratulations to the 2024-2025 Design Excellence winners: 

Genevieve Bentz, Design I
Instructors: Vince Snyder, Charlton Lewis, Mari Michael Glassell, Gary Wang, Joyce Rosner

Henry Farris, Design I
Instructors: Vince Snyder, Charlton Lewis, Marilyn Michael Glassell, Gary Wang, Joyce Rosner

Nick Bowling, Design II
Instructors: John Blood, Elizabeth Danze, Mari Michael Glassell, Kevin Alter

Tristan Stout, Design II
Instructors: John Blood, Elizabeth Danze, Mari Michael Glassell, Kevin Alter

Olivia Andrews, Interior Design II
Instructor: Nerea Feliz

Kaely Claire Hoskins, Design III
Instructor: Juan Miro

Sophia Rodriguez, Interior Design III
Instructor: Amy McDonnold

Cherry Chu, Design IV
Instructor: Rasa Navasaityte

Kaliegh Colucci, Design IV
Instructor: Dean Almy

Brittany Wang, Design IV
Instructor: Liang Wang

Joy Tando, Interior Design IV
Instructor: Agustina Rodriguez

Victoria Aboytes, Design V
Instructor: Andy Bako

Nathan Hawkes, Design V
Instructor: Patrick Danahy

Jessica Garza, Interior Design V
Instructor: Ria Bravo

Ana DeBlock, Comprehensive
Instructor: Kyriakos Kyriakou

Gwendolyn Jones and Carolin Shifflett, Comprehensive
Instructor: Judith Birdsong

Ben Canahan and Sarah Lemp, Interior Design VI
Instructor: Allison Gaskins

Jabob Faust, Vertical
Instructor: Camille Jobe

Lauren Figley, Vertical
Instructor: Francisco Gomes

Drake Heptig, Horizontal
Instructor: Martin Haettasch

Vanessa Silva, Horizontal
Instructor: Danelle Briscoe

Maverik Santos and Luke Slay, Integrative
Instructor: Matt Fajkus

Mia Abulencia and Ellineese Guerra, Integrative
Instructor: Martin Haettasch

Andy Nguyen and Evan Altenburg, Integrative
Instructor: Francisco Gomes

Nawal Aamir, Shelby Jordan, Nicole Tedeschi, Interior Design Core I
Instructor: Igor Siddiqui

Shelby Jordan, Interior Design Core II
Instructor: Ria Bravo

Raha Shahvazian, Interior Design Core III 
Instructor: Clay Odom

Jen McClelland and Sydney George, Interior Design Technical
Instructor: Marla Smith

Camille Freeman, Landscape Architecture Studio I
Instructor: Michael Averitt

Christi Shakya, Landscape Architecture Studio II
Instructor: Hope Hasbrouck

Kristen Juen, Landscape Architecture Studio III
Instructor: Maggie Hansen

Sarah Oancia, Landscape Architecture Studio IV
Instructor: Michael Averitt

Sushmita Sridar, Victoria Origel, and Zeinab Heidari, Urban Design I
Instructor: Liang Wang

Jainami Shah, Margareth Angeles, Gabriela OCampos, Urban Design II
Instructor: Kevin Alter, Dean Almy

Nandita Varrier and Lizbeth Gomez, Advanced
Instructor: Nerea Feliz

Rachel Cox and Taehyun Ryou, Advanced
Instructor: Eric Bunge

Mia Albulencia and Ellenise Guerra, Advanced
Instructor: Eric Bunge

Leo Xu, Nandiat Warrier, Jennifer Lee, Dallas Liang, Advanced
Instructor: Patrick Danahy

Winnie Lin, Advanced
Instructor: Paul Germaine McCoy

Itzel Macedo, Advanced
Instructor: Clay Odom

Nathan Albers, Advanced 
Instructors: David Heymann

Aaron Beebo, Wood Design
Instructor: Mark Macek

Catherine McCoy, Wood Design
Instructor: Mark Macek