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Advancing the Education of Young Architecture Graduates through Foreign Travel-Study |
Scholars and Alternates 2007
WINNER ANNOUNCED IN FELLOWSHIP COMPETITION
The 2007 $10,000 Cavin Family Traveling Fellowship has been awarded to Mark
Chenchin, a promising young architecture graduate of the University of Oregon for foreign
travel-study of his own devising. Chenchin’s design solution to the U.S.-Mexico border
crossing facility successfully merged complex symbolic and sustainability issues.
Follow Mark Chenchin’s Travels through Europe
Mark Chenchin
Chenchin Presentation
Questions from the Jury
Fellowship Secretary Patrick Sullivan, FAIA, and Brooks Cavin, AIA, fellowship founder,
proudly announced the first winner of the annual award as well as the alternate, Robert
Alexander, a graduate of Cal Poly Pomona. Other finalists include Ian Merker, a
graduate from Cal Poly Pomona and Ryan Lingard, a graduate from the University of
Oregon.
Brooks Cavin, AIA
Robert Alexander
Ian Merker
Ryan Lingard
A distinguished jury determined the winner on the basis of a five-day design competition.
The jury chair was John Sheehy, FAIA, Principal of Architecture International and
Associate Professor at the School of Architecture at the University of Hawaii. Other jury
members included Gregg Ander, FAIA, Chief Architect of Southern California Edison;
Allison Kwok, AIA, Associate Professor of Architecture at the University of Oregon; Kip
Dickson, AIA, Professor of Architecture and Graduate Coordinator of the Master of
Architecture Program, Cal Poly Pomona; and Sarah Lorenzen, Assistant Professor of
Architecture at Cal Poly Pomona.
Preliminary Viewing
Patrick Sullivan, FAIA
Final Jury
A big thank you to Kimon Onuma and Thomas Dalbert who designed and produced the
competition’s electronic format, composed and facilitated the juror’s initial virtual viewing
of the projects that led to the choice of finalists, and the design and maintenance of
website itself.
Kimon Onuma, AIA