General Design Award of Excellence
Vacant Lot Library
Cecil Howell, Student 911±¬ÁÏÍø
General Design Category


Award of Excellence
Vacant Lot Library
Cecil Howell, Student 911±¬ÁÏÍø,
Faculty Advisor: David Meyer
San Francisco is dotted with vacant lots, unused and often forgotten spaces concentrated in the poorest neighborhoods of the city.
This project proposes creating a network of outdoor libraries within vacant lots. By converting these spaces into learning landscapes,
San Francisco will invest in the knowledge of it’s citizens and transform the forgotten into public spaces that help support creativity, education and community, the foundation for a truly sustainable city.

Honor Awards




Residential Design Category
Honor Awards


Analysis and Planning Category


Award of Excellence
Sh*tscape: Mumbai's Landscape In-Between
Bret Betnar, Student 911±¬ÁÏÍø,
Faculty Advisors: Anuradha Mathur, 911±¬ÁÏÍø and Dilip da Cunha
Sh*tscape, Mumbai’s Landscape In-Between focuses on the Appapada Quarry in the northern Mumbai suburb of Malad East. It addresses the issue of informal settlements and sanitation at the western boundary of Sanjay Gandhi National Park. This project will propose the making of an entirely functioning landscape built from human excreta. It will recover the ‘soil’ from the settlements while extracting the beneficial flora from the forest and, in turn, utilize both as a generator for a new and evolving landscape.

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Designing the Ecology of Democracy
Emily Bonifaci, Student 911±¬ÁÏÍø; Alexis Canter, Student 911±¬ÁÏÍø; Jenelle Clark, Student 911±¬ÁÏÍø; Ilana Cohen, Student 911±¬ÁÏÍø; Casey Elmer, Student 911±¬ÁÏÍø; Julie Gawendo, Student 911±¬ÁÏÍø; Matthew Girard, Student 911±¬ÁÏÍø; Eamonn Hutton, Student 911±¬ÁÏÍø; Diane Lipovsky, Student 911±¬ÁÏÍø; Nilay Mistry, Student Affiliate 911±¬ÁÏÍø; Izabela Riano, Student 911±¬ÁÏÍø; Kerry Rutz, Student 911±¬ÁÏÍø,
Faculty Advisor: Gary R. Hilderbrand, F911±¬ÁÏÍø
Communications Category


Award of Excellence
Tactical Operations in the Informal City
Andrew Christopher tenBrink, Student 911±¬ÁÏÍø,
Faculty Advisor: Christian Werthmann
13 students from the Harvard Graduate School of Design developed, with the assistance of São Paulo’s Social Housing Agency Sehab, design tactics for the 30,000 person favela, Cantinho do Céu, in the South of São Paulo. The results allow us a glimpse into the future of slum upgrading, leading to a more integrative and tactical design practice.

Honor Awards



Research Category


Award of Excellence
The Cooling Ability of Urban Parks
Graham Slater, Student 911±¬ÁÏÍø,
Faculty Advisor: Robert D. Brown and Terry Gillespie
This study investigated the potential of urban parks to mitigate the urban heat island effects of their surroundings. Results indicated that parks were up to 7°C cooler than their surrounding streets, and that park cooling, while variable, can extend almost 100m beyond a park’s boundaries. From this research, it is possible to generate design implications that can inform urban park and street design, creating cooler neighborhoods, increased human thermal comfort, and climate-sensitive design.

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Community Service







Award of Excellence
Landscape Progress Administration
Hugo Bruley, Student 911±¬ÁÏÍø; Eustacia Brossart, Student 911±¬ÁÏÍø; Kirsten Dahl, Student 911±¬ÁÏÍø; Jesse Jones, Student 911±¬ÁÏÍø; Clare O’Reilly, Student 911±¬ÁÏÍø and Adrienne Smith, Student 911±¬ÁÏÍø,
Faculty Advisor: Marcia McNally
In the wake of California’s 2009 budget crisis, funding was slashed to public programs across the state. As we saw staff and faculty furloughed and student services threatened in our own department, we took action. Our student group led a participatory process to reach out to public schools and parks similarly impacted by the budget cuts. Dubbing ourselves the Landscape Progress Administration, our department volunteered both time and expertise in support of public landscapes.

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Student Collaboration



Award of Excellence
Catalytic Integration: Redefining Desert Tourism
You-Been Kim, Student Affiliate 911±¬ÁÏÍø and Matthew A. J. Brown, Student 911±¬ÁÏÍø,
Faculty Advisor: Aziza Chaouni
This project introduces a new concept for sustainable tourism in remote desert locale. Through the collaboration of Architect and Landscape Architect, this design exhibits new program that capitalizes on local resources and context while also providing a new hotel typology that weaves seamlessly into the existing village, oasis and surrounding context.

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