George W. Anderson, Jr. Award
Graduate Student Award
Aditi Shreedhar (MUD ‘24) and Aniket Surve (MUD ‘24), recipients of a 2023 George W. Anderson, Jr. Award for their Project “FOOD for THOUGHT: A Community Service Hub for South Oakland” completed in the fall 2022 urban design studio.
The George W. Anderson, Jr. Award recognizes graduate students who demonstrate through their work an exceptional level of attention to detail or dedication to beneficially impacting the community.
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Carnegie Mellon Architecture will announce the call for applications for the next award cycle in the fall of 2024.
Mission
The George W. Anderson, Jr. Award recognizes Carnegie Mellon Architecture graduate students (Master’s and PhD) who demonstrate through their work "an exceptional level of attention to detail or dedication to beneficially impacting the community."
Evaluation Criteria
To be considered for the George W. Anderson, Jr. Award, applicants must submit the following information:
- 250-word narrative about the project
- Pecha Kucha presentation that demonstrates an exceptional level of attention to detail or dedication to beneficially impacting the community. Applicants must upload a single PDF document with 20 image slides, 3:4 landscape format (max 20MB). If selected as a finalist, these 20 slides will be used as the slides for the Pecha Kucha presentation event.
- Pecha Kucha is a presentation style in which 20 slides are shown for 20 seconds each (6 minutes and 40 seconds in total) with the images advancing automatically.
The jury will review the submitted applications and select a shortlist of candidates. These finalists will present their Pecha Kucha presentations to their fellow graduate students and the jury during a live event, the Anderson Award Finalists Pecha Kucha Presentations. Candidates must be present to participate in this presentation. The jury will make the final determination of the award recipient(s) following the presentations.
View the 2022 finalist presentations
Spring 2024 Jury: Joshua Bard (Chair), Nina Baird, Kristen Kurland
Spring 2024 Award Amount: $1,500 to $2,500 (multiple available)
Eligibility & Schedule
This George W. Anderson, Jr. Award is open to all Carnegie Mellon Architecture graduate students (Master’s and PhD).
Carnegie Mellon Architecture will announce the call for applications for the next award cycle in the fall of 2024.
Award Recipients
- 2023: First Place: Jil Berenblum (MSSD ‘24), Nandan Bhusury (MSSD ‘24) & Rovina George (M.Arch ‘24), Project: MYCOFLAME: In care of forest biomes and wild fire resiliency
Runner-up: Valeria Duque Villegas (MUD ‘25), Project: Enhancing the Social Impact of Natural Rehabilitation: Harnessing Natural Recomposition as a Catalyst for Social Transformation
Runner-up: Trevor Orgill (M.Arch ‘24), Project: HomeCraft Workshop: The Expandable House - Studies in Recycling, Repurposing Building Materials In Urban Villages of Chiang Mai
Runner-up: Koushik Srinath (MUD ‘24), Project: Reclaiming Platform Futures: Towards Alternative Models of Cities and Data - 2023: First Place: Suzy Li (PhD-BPD candidate), Project: Adopting Smart Community Surfaces is Critical to Climate Change, Human Health, and Social Equity
Runner-up: Ariba Asad (MUD ‘23), Project: Choreographing an Informed Return: From Rehabilitation to Recovery
Runners-up: Rachel Ruscigno (M.Arch ‘24) & Autumn Dsouza (M.Arch ‘24), Project: Regenerative Assemblages: A Soil Remediation Network
Runners-up: Aditi Shreedhar (MUD ‘24) & Aniket Surve (MUD ‘24), Project: FOOD for THOUGHT: A Community Service Hub for South Oakland - 2022: First Place: Jamie Ho (MSBPD ‘22), Project: Biophilic Design Strategies in Dialysis Clinics to Improve Patient Health Outcomes
First Place: Kashmala Imtiaz (M.Arch ‘22), Project: Material Transition and its Socio-Cultural Impact – The Case of Azad Kashmir
Runner-up: Tabeer Tariq (M.Arch '23), Project: Architecture of Empathy: A Cancer Care Home
Runner-up: Chengzhi Zhang (MSCD ‘23), Project: Biophilia Informed Internet of Things Design - 2021: First Place: Sameedha Mahajan (MUD '21), Project: The Communal Veil: Carving Spaces for Women in the Rohingya Refugee Camps
First Place: Xiaoran Zhang (MUD '21), Project: Re-cultivation: Gaoli Village Rural Community Commons Design, Nanjing, China + Re-cultivation Thesis Research
Runner-up: Sharleen Devjani (M.Arch '21), Project: Climate Change Gentrification: Little Haiti, Miami
Runner-up: Kashmala Imtiaz (M.Arch '22), Project: Sharpsburg Ecotone
Runner-up: Pedro Veloso (PhD-CD '21)Generative Systems for Design - 2020: Abhinavv Singh (MUD ‘20), Project: Architecture of Associations: Persistence of Memory
Emek Erdolu (PhD-CD ‘23), Project: D+G_D: A CAD Modeling Interface for Urban Design and Evaluation in Singapore
Amulya Surapaneni (MSSD ‘21), Project: Housing for All
Srinjoy Hazra (M.Arch ‘20), Project: The Hugli River of Cultures Project - 2019: First Place: Shailaja Patel
Runner-up: Pragya Gupta - 2018: First Place: Roshni Krishnan
Runner-up: Manuel Rodríguez Ladrón de Guevara
Runner-up: Shalini Priyadarshini - 2017: First Place: Paul Moscoso Riofrio
First Place: Chun Zheng
Runner-up: Lu Zhu
Runner-up: Ernest Bellamy - 2016: not awarded
- 2015: First Place: Jeffrey Concepcion
Runner-up: Bruce Chan - 2014: not awarded
- 2013: not awarded
- 2012: Maitri Shah
Eleni Katrini - 2011: First Place: Omar Clennon
Runner-up: Samira Ahmadi - 2010: First Place: Deepika Khowal
Runner-up: Raghav Kaushik - 2009: First Place: Erica Cochran
Runner-up: Rui Zhang - 2008: First Place: Michael Dong
Runner-up: Megan Snyder