The jurors award student work in the graduate and undergraduate integrated design studios (ARC 607 and ARC 409). The criteria for selection includes incorporating all areas of the professional curriculum in support of design excellence and constructing clarity among abstract concepts that elevate architecture as a cultural art and the materials and technologies by which it is materialized.

Projects are nominated by students and faculty to compete for six prizes in three categories: the Design Prize, juried by three renowned architects; the Innovation and Integration of Systems Thinking, juried by two renowned structural and environmental consultants; and the King+King Prize, juried by representatives of King+King Architects.

2026/2026 Nominees

First Place

  • Timothy Xing and Rannia Zhang
    Stacks In Suspension

Second Place

  • Nneka Nnabuogar and Julian Bosco
    Splicing Structures: Terminal 02 Housing Project

Honorable Mentions

  • Yuqi Duan and Bingyu Chen
    The Mat Matters
  • Eric Ma and Harry Jin
    Groundless: Test Field of DfD

Technical and Ecological Integration Award

  • First Place

    Tianchi Zhao and Rowan Liu
    The Holding Edge
  • Second Place

    Mia Mueller, Katherine Tang, Yufei Liu
    The Annex at Alverna Heights Convent
  • Honorable Mentions

    Dalia Khalid and Madeleine Gracie
    Williamsburg Regrounded

     Emily Segal and Kaitlyn Idhaw
    Design for Disassembly Institute: Before, During, and Beyond Building Life

King+King Integrated Design Studio Award

  • First Place

    Calvin Paing and Christina Tsai 
    Fields of Remembrance 
  • Second Place

    Stirling Fitzgerald and Nicholas Hastings
    Convergence 
  • Honorable Mentions

    Claire Guo and Ankur Moolky
    The Civic Quarter

    Jiayi Huang and Michelle Lei
    The Ascending Plateau

2024/2025 Nominees

Systems Integration

  • Winner
    A. J. Laucks; Kyle Chiang

Presentation

  • Winner
    Ailed Torres Espinosa; Emma McDevitt

Structural-Spatial Development

  • Winner
    Casey Pedersen; Lucas Fay

Enclosing System and Material Development

  • Winner
    Tanvi Sriramaneni; Amanda Zhang

2023/2024 Nominees

Overall Design Prize

This award highlights projects that utilize design thinking, concept development, and systems design toward the definition of a holistic proposal that merges performance and aesthetic appreciation.

  • Winner
    Ivan Shen; Yue Zhuo
    THE DOMESTIC NOMAD
  • Runner-up
    Christian Barnett; Sonali Mistry
    PLAY PEN 
  • Honorable Mention
    Elena Friesen; Violet Wen
    Perspective Duality 

Jury:

  • Stephanie Davidson (co-founder of the architecture practice DAVIDSON RAFAILIDIS)
  • Rafael Beneytez-Duran (Director of Undergraduate Architecture Studies, Associate Professor, Gerald D. Hines College of Architecture, Houston TX; design principal at Z4A )
  • José Ibarra (Assistant Professor, College of Architecture and Planning, University of Colorado Denver; founder of Studio José Ibarra and co-founder of House Operations and the Agency for Work and Play)

Innovation and Integration of Systems Thinking Prize

This award highlights projects that utilize systems that engage and inform the design intention, embracing sustainable principles.

  • Winner
    Emma Baker-Kenyon; Donovan Hernandez
    Whitlock House
  • Runner-up
    Sarah E. Van Horne; James E. Barbier; Thomas J. Wickersham
    Dynamic Disassembly
  • Honorable Mention
    Ziqi Wang; Stephanie Tang
    LAYERED LIVING 

Jury:

  • Alessandro Beghini (Senior Associate Principal, Skidmore, Owings & Merrill)
  • Grete Grubelich (Architect, Tesla)

King & King Prize

  • Winner
    Zhirun Huang; Weixia Luo
    Dubai Flow
  • Runner-up
    Gretchen Louise Hundertmark; Ian Andrew Goodale
    Urbancenote

Jury:

  • Kirk Narburgh (CEO / Managing Partner, King + King Architects)

2022/2023 nominees

Consultant Jury (Systems Innovation and Integration)

  • Rui Cao and Qi Liu
  • Nikita Goswami and Duda Carvalho
  • Alexandra Grypinich and Qiying Ruan

Design Jury (Wholistic Concept+Systems Design Prize)

  • Peiyu (Lucas) Luo and Adrian Suciu
  • Danlin Sun, Lillian Zhao, and Yangyang (Kevin) Zhu
  • Linxi (Jenny) Zhang and Greta Ulatowski

Honorable Mention

  • Yixing (Cindy) Liu and Olivia Porrill

2021/2022 Nominees

2020/2021 nominees

2019/2020 nominees

2018/2019 nominees