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Recent Student Achievements
The Architectural Studies is pleased to announce that Alexander Dixon is the recipient of a 2009 Faculty of Frick Fine Arts Special Commendation Award.
Casey Schlaegle will participate in a six-week program exploring architectural education with UCLA's Department of Architecture and Urban Design.
Recent Graduates - Continuing Education and Future Plans
- Robert Raymond Bradfield — accepted into M.Arch. programs at the University of Michigan, Syracuse University, University of Buffalo, and University of Illinois at Chicago; will attend the University of Michigan
- Christine Michelle Carpenter — University of the Arts in Philadelphia, MFA in Museum Studies Exhibition Planning and Design, merit-based scholarship
- Kelly J. Dessoye — The Academy of Art University, MA in Multimedia
- James William Hopkins— accepted into John Carroll University and Case Western Reserve University; will attend Case Western’s Weatherhead School of Management on a partial scholarship
- Bridget Teresa Kane — accepted into M.Arch. programs at the University of Toronto, Syracuse University, and the University of Maryland; will attend the University of Toronto
- Jay M. Masi —University of Pittsburgh Swanson School of Engineering, MS in Structural Engineering
- Christopher Moy — accepted into M.Arch. programs at the University of Cincinnati, the University of Florida, the University of Illinois at Chicago, and Washington University in St. Louis; will attend Washington University
- Michael Terrence Murray — accepted into the University of Colorado at Denver and Tulane University; will attend Tulane, M.Arch. program
- Frank L. Ruffing — Chatham University, MA in Landscape Architecture
- Jovanni Jennifer Carter-Davis will intern at Salemo/Livingston
Architects in San Diego. - Joshua Ian Clyde is employed at Pfaffmann & Associates, Pittsburgh.
- Ashley Nicole Greene is employed with the Historic Hill Initiative, Pittsburgh.
This fall, five architectural studies majors served as undergraduate teaching assistants for Gretchen Bender’s foundations class for architectural studies majors (Approaches to the Built Environment): Bob Bradfield, Alex Dixon, Alex Holstein, Bridget Kane, and Chris Preis. Alex Dixon and Chris Preis were awarded a Chancellor’s Undergraduate Teaching Fellowship for their work in this class.
Alex Dixon received funding from the honors college to pursue a B.Phil. degree, finishing his research on the new Potsdamer Platz under the direction of Gretchen Bender. He will travel to Berlin in February to conduct site analysis.
Many architectural studies majors engaged in exciting projects last summer. Jenna Daniels was accepted into the Fountainblue Architecture Program in France and three architectural studies majors were accepted into the DIS program at Copenhagen: Bridget Kane (who will study sustainable development and architecture while abroad), Chris Moy and Jovanni Carter-Davis.
Bridget Kane was awarded the first annual Fil Hearn award to help defray her expenses this summer while traveling abroad. Slightly closer to home, Alex Dixon was accepted into the intensive summer workshop, internship and volunteer program at Arcosanti in Arizona, an experimental town in the desert, built to embody Paolo Soleri's concept of arcology - the fusion of architecture with ecology. And in our own backyard, Ashley Greene served as an intern for the Historic Hill Initiative, working on the project team that seeks to restore the childhood home of the famous playwright August Wilson and develop an artist colony in Pittsburgh’s Hill District.
Special Projects
Field Trips
Every year our students visit sites of national and international significance, studying historic and contemporary architecture first hand.
