Architecture Department

The Architecture Department is proud to announce that following awards have been won by current and former students in seveveral recent regional competitions, including:

The2007 Vitetta Award

+ 3rd place: Adam Mercier (5 th yr BArch)

The Vitetta Award is an annual competition between three students from each of the 4 accredited architecture programs in Philadelphia sponsored by the Vitetta Group of Companies. This year Adam Mercier was placed second for his project ‘TRaCES'.

The 2007 John Stewardson Memorial Competition

+1st place: Joshua Kaltreider (5 th yr BArch)
+Honorable Mention: Dustin Tobias (5 th yr BArch)
+Honorable Mention: Andrew Hart (2005 alum)
+Placed in top 5: Michael Blumenthal (2005 alum)

The John Stewardson Memorial Competition is an annual design competition between 15% of the fjnal year students from the 6 accredited programs of architecture in Pennsylvania . This year, for the first time in its 100 yr history, all the top awards except one went to one program, Temple . This was also the first time that the competition has been opened to alumni, up to two years out of school. Joshua Kaltreider was placed first, and Dustin Tobias and Andrew Hart received honorable mention. Michael Blumenthal was placed in the top five.

AIA West Jersey Awards

+2nd place: Emmanuel Gee (5 th yr BArch)

The AIA West Jersey Awards is an annual competition between two students from each of the 4 accredited architecture programs in Philadelphia . This year Emmanuel Gee was placed second for his project for an industrial design and fabrication laboratory in Manyunk.

You can view their work in greater detail in the gallery section of the Department website by clicking here.