Spring 2026 M.Arch Thesis Presentations and Awards

Master of Architecture Thesis presentations were held on Friday May 8 with twenty-four students presenting, and with an Honors Jury held on Saturday May 9 reviewed by Professors Andrew Cohen and Julian Bonder and several national and international visiting critics:

Miguel Roldan, Director of the Barcelona Architecture Center, and Principal, Roldan + Berengue Arquitectos, Barcelona
Jeffrey Day, FAIA, Professor of Architecture at University of Nebraska-Lincoln and Principal, Actual Architecture Company, Omaha
Francisco Rodriquez-Suarez, Director, School of Architecture of the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, and RSVP Architects, Puerto Rico

Student Award Winners recognized are

Thesis Honor Award                               
Samantha McCormick - Bearing Witness, An Architecture That Listens
A Refuge for Women and Families fleeing political and domestic violence, Tapachula, Mexico

Thesis Award
Will Prout - Housing the Urban Fabric
Parking Reclamation reconnecting communities in the city, White Plains, NY

Steven Nostro - In Motion: Reconnecting Performance and Landscape Through Design
A Performance Center on the grounds of Hellenic College overlooking Jamaica Pond, Boston, MA

Thesis Commendations
A.J. Alessandrini - The Urban Wild: Between Indoors and Outdoors, Architecture in Ecology
A Nature Education and Wild Animal Rehabilitation Center, Mine Falls Park/Mill Pond Canal system, Nashua, NH
 

Russell Cole - The City Already Built: Adaptive Reuse as New Grounds for Living
Transformation of the Hurley Building and Public Spaces, Paul Rudolph, Architect, Boston MA
 

Molly DeLorenzo - Reclaiming the Suburban Superblock: The Mall as Civic Infrastructure
Reclaiming the Liberty Tree Mall as a center for culture, community, housing, Danvers, MA
 

Zulange Gonzalez - Cultura Perdida: Science and Nature in Borinquen Identity
Transformation of an existing zoological park in Mayaguez, Puerto Rico
 

Jason Teixeira - Union: Movement, Matter, Ecology
Civic and Cultural Centers on a pedestrian connector linking train station and downtown, New Haven, CT