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to grant Awards of Distinction and Honorable Mentions to deserving students
for their exceptional work. This year five awards and nine mentions
have been granted.
The nominations:
To qualify for an award, a student needs to be nominated by the Principal
Investigator of the JS school where he/she is enrolled. In addition
to the images, the PIs are required to submit a summary description
of the nominated project and to state the reasons for which they think
the nominated student deserves an award.
This year, there
were ninety-three (93) nominees from seventy-three (73) different schools.
The categories:
The nominated projects were placed into four categories: Architectural
Design, which had sixty-four nominations; Urban Design, with seven nominations;
Product and Industrial design, with eight nominations; and Visualization/Illustration,
which had fourteen nominations. Two Awards of Distinction were granted
in the Architectural Design category and one in each of the other categories.
Two Honorable Mentions were granted in each of the categories, except
that three were given in Visualization.
The Jury:
The selection of the awards was made by five jurors from outside AutoDesSys,
all experts in computer aided design. Two of the jurors are from academia
and three from the professions, two architects and one sculptor. All
of the professionals have also been involved with teaching. One of the
jurors from academia was also a Joint Study Principal Investigator whose
school had a nominee who actually won an award. This juror did not vote
in the Urban Design category, where his student was nominated. The jurors
are listed below, in alphabetical order.
- Rick del Monte,
AIA, Urban Architecture, Dallas, Texas
- Michael P.
Dingeldein, AIA, Steed Hammond Paul, Inc., Hamilton, Ohio
- Mihai Nadin,
Profesor Dr. Dr., Bergische Universitat, Wuppertal, Germany
- Bennett Neiman,
Associate Professor, University of Colorado at Denver
- Michael Rees,
Sculptor, Kansas City, Missouri
The process:
The projects of all the nominees were sent to the jurors as PageMaker
and Acrobat documents on CD-ROMs, which also included animations
and slide shows that accompanied some of the submissions. Names
and school affiliations were not included. The jurors returned their
selections for the four awards and grades (0 to 10) for each of
the other projects. Selection of a project for an award was considered
equivalent to a grade of 15. The grades were averaged and the one
(two in Architecture) project from each category receiving the highest
grade was selected for the award. Projects receiving an average
grade of 8.0 or higher were selected for the honorable mentions.
The jury was
also asked to comment on why they selected these particular projects.
Their comments are included with the displays of the award and honorable
mention winning projects.
The winners:
The projects of the Award of Distinction and Honorable Mention winning
students are displayed on the next 14 pages. The awards and mentions
are also highlighted on the pages of the respective schools. Some
of the projects include slide shows or animations, which have been
included on the CD-ROM supplement of this report. These projects
are noted with a movie logo.
The prizes:
All Awards of Distinction have received a form•Z RenderZone
license with one year technical support and updates. AutoDesSys
will also wave the processing costs of a 10-seat JS license for
the school they attend, for next year. Honorable Mentions have received
diplomas commemorating the award. The awards were announced and
handed out at Acadia 98, the annual conference of the Association
for Computer Aided Design, at the University Laval, Quebec, Canada,
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Architectural
design
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Andrew Wong, Award
of Distinction
Sony Tower
University of California at Berkeley, Department of Architecture
Berkeley, California
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Stephen James,
Award of Distinction
Bonneville Salt Flats International Speedway Interpretive Center
University of Minnesota, Department of Architecture
Minneapolis, Minnesota
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Nicholas
Sully, Honorable Mention
Boomtown Architecture
University of British Columbia, School of Architecture
Vancouver, British Columbia
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Kongsak
Wijukkanathun, Honorable Mention
Site Imagination
King Mongkut's University of Technology Thonburi, School of Architecture
Bangkok, Thailand
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Visualization
and Illustration
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Alistair Miller,
Award of Distinction
Sachs Quarz 3x7 Rear Hub
Blackpool and The Fylde College, Technical and Information Illustration
Blackpool, England
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Nigel
Middleman, Honorable Mention
Avesta Steel Multimedia Presentation
Blackpool and The Fylde College, Technical and Information Illustration
Blackpool, England
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Christopher
Parrish-Taylor, Honorable Mention
Resurrection
Minneapolis College of Art and Design, Fine Arts/Foundation Studies
Minneapolis, Minnesota
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Reggie
Aviles, Honorable Mention
Lebbus Woods
Pennsylvania State University, Department of Architecture
University Park, Pennsylvania
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