Wallenberg Studio Travel

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In 1944, as First Secretary of the Swedish delegation in Budapest, Wallenberg is credited with saving more than 100,000 Jews from death at the hands of the Nazis. The following year, he was captured by the Russians. Seven decades later, his fate remains unknown.

Each year the architecture program exhibits and juries the best work from the final undergraduate design studio. Awards, funded by the Raoul Wallenberg Scholarship Fund established in 1985 by the Benard L. Maas Foundation in memory of Wallenberg, are offered in the form of a stipend for international travel to a country of the student’s choosing.

A group of people working on landscaping the outside of a 3d printed building

Born in 1896, Benard Maas achieved success as an innovator and industrialist for the automotive industry. He dedicated himself and his fortune to enhancing the lives of young people, and became one of the state of Michigan’s most generous philanthropists. The Benard L. Maas Foundation continues his lifelong support of higher education through grantmaking, including the gift to establish the Raoul Wallenberg Scholarship Fund.

In establishing these travel awards, it was hoped that students would engage in the culture of the country they visited, exploring architecture and culture, and getting acquainted with the people. Students are inspired and humbled to learn that Wallenberg was once an architecture student like themselves who had the courage to do the right thing during terrifying and dangerous events in history. It was expected that students would return with a broadened understanding of the world and an appreciation and feeling for the people they encountered.

Students must submit a report about their travel and experience upon their return.

/ Wallenberg Travel Award Winners

2023 Winners

Wallenberg Award
Ella Edelstein, Ann Borek
“Curb Appeal”
Ana Morcillo Pallares Studio

Wallenberg Award
Man Lam Cheng, Dalia Schwarzbaum
“Salt”
Anya Sirota Studio

Wallenberg Recognition of Merit for Research and Prototyping
Amely Wackerbauer
Zariah Hernandez
Natalie Brown & Sierra Shibuta
Lauryn Leuenberg
Syvion Thomas & Ian Merida
Yiran (Lisa) Liu & Raul Deniz Altin
“All Studio” – Leah Wulfman Studio

Wallenberg Recognition of Merit for Research and Experimentation
Ximena Zuleta, Sierra Safian
“Glitched Productions”
Alina Nazmeeva Studio

2022 Recipients

  • Madeleine Smith, “In Transit Exposing Negligence through Intervention in Order to Remake”
  • Muzi Li, “MANUFACTURE REFORM Community-making and Identity Building”
  • Audrey Louie, “Polaris Medical Center”
  • Madeira Booy de Graaff, “Like a Version”
  • Sydney Cleveland-Datesman, “Shaping Domestic Space Shifting Women’s Domestic  Labor to be a Labor of Love”

2020 Recipients

  • Phillip Allore, “Storied Ground”
  • Cayman Langton & Natsume Ono, “Alternating Duality”
  • Clare Coburn, “Irrational Territories: Counter-Tactics for a Post-Petroleum Future”
  • Jamie Johnson & Peyton Stimac, “The Reformatorium”
  • Gian Anovert & Jesica Yu, “New Kids on the Block”
  • Yangtian Yan, “Depth of Panels”

2019 Recipients

  • Evan Troy Crawford for “Objective Algorithms”
  • Angel Tang for “New Ground”
  • Siyuan Zhang for “Timeframe”
  • Markus Boynton for “Twice as Good”
  • Malcolm Brom and Lejia Li for “Desert Currency”

2018 Recipients

Prize Winners:

  • Christopher Myefski
    Re-ranging the American Construct
  • Nadim Hajj Ahmad and Ellis Wills-Begley
    Burkinabe` International Center for Image Production
  • Willow Davis
    Cloaked Communications

Honorable Mention:

  • Julia Muntean and R. Michie Nimsombub
    Cash-4-Data: Pawning the Attic, the Basement, and the Could

2018 Wallenberg Awards

2017 Recipients

First Place:

  • Karen Duan
    “MASS INUREMENT: COMMODITY KING” (Gilpin)

Second Place:

  • Sasha Pfeiffer
    “Flutterby: A Memorial to Migration Across the US Mexico Border” (Trandafirescu)
  • Sarah “Jordan” Turkomani
    “Under the Counter” (Wilkins)

Third Place:

  • Taylor Boes
    “Not Mine” (Robinson)
  • Jiashi Yu
    “Chicken Republic” (Robinson)

2017 Wallenberg Studio Awards and Symposium

2016 Recipients

  • Eunsung Tiffany Cho
  • Jamie Lutz
  • Kitae Kim (special commendation)
  • Kati Albee (honorable mention)
  • Diego Garcia (honorable mention)

Wallenberg Awards and Symposium

2015 Recipients

  • Grace Alli
  • Genevieve Doman
  • Lauren Grzibowski (honorable mention)
  • Jamie Waxter (honorable mention)
  • Stella Zhang (honorable mention)

2014 Recipients

  • Christina Xuefei Yan
  • Muhammad Alshadood (honorable mention)
  • Zachary Angles (honorable mention)
  • John Arnold (honorable mention)
  • Jeff Burgess (honorable mention)
  • Katherine Lanski (honorable mention)

2013 Recipients

  • Carly Gertler
  • Rob Michel (Honor Award winner)

2012 Recipients

2011 Recipients

  • Simon Rolka
  • Grant Weaver
  • Ian Sinclair
  • Jacqueline Kow (honorable mention)
  • Timothy Harmon (honorable mention)

2010 Recipients

  • De Peter Yi
  • Lindsey May
  • Shawn Lettow

2009 Recipients

  • Marc Leland Maxey
  • Alexander R. Timmer
  • Richard John Cosgrove
  • Jakub Jan Szerszen (honorable mention)
  • Marie Wafia Matta (honorable mention)
  • Lauren Elaine Gregoricka (honorable mention)
  • Brooke Kowal Goodman (honorable mention)
  • Eva Tsang Lynch (honorable mention)

2008 Recipients

  • Sarah Faruki
  • Hattie Stroud
  • Enesh Eastlick
  • Andrew McIntyre
  • Grant Jefferies
  • Monica Musialowski
  • Karl Schmeck
  • Jamie Galimberti
  • Brooklyn Posler
  • Nicole Allen
  • Rajeev Arapalli
  • Peter Shaw
  • Donna Marion
  • Leonardo Caion-Demaestr

2007 Recipients

  • Alex Jackson
  • James Munk
  • Lauren Hepner