by Center for Architecture
The Center for Architecture is proud to announce the 2024 recipients of the Douglas Haskell Award for Student Journals. The Haskell Award was founded to encourage student journalism on architecture, planning, and related subjects and to foster regard for intelligent criticism among future professionals. The award is named for architectural journalist and editor Douglas Haskell, editor of Architectural Forum from 1949 to 1964, where he was very influential in stopping the demolition of Grand Central Station. Three student-led journals of architecture and design were awarded prizes of $1,000 to foster regard for criticism among future professionals.
2024 Award Recipients:
Dimensions 37, University of Michigan, Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning ($1,000)
Dimensions is the student-produced journal of architecture at the University of Michigan published annually since 1987. It seeks to contribute to the critical discourse of architectural education by documenting the most compelling work produced by its students, faculty, fellows, and visiting lecturers. Dimensions is produced over one academic year, publishing work solicited from the previous year’s graduates from both the undergraduate and graduate programs in architecture at U-M’s Taubman College. The student work in Dimensions 37 reflects a focus on land politics and imagining the future; neon colors and innovative digital representation styles abound.
Dimensions 37 Team: Jillian Armstrong, Macey Bollenbacher, Zione Grosshuesch, Zoe Hano, Shravan S Iyer, Minyoung Lee, Mason Magemeneas, Talia Morison-Allen, Alvin Poon, Taylor Rhodes, John Spraberry, Nicole Tooley and Varun Vashi
Faculty Advisor: Christian Unverzagt
Paprika! Volume 10, Issue 1, Yale University, School of Architecture ($1,000)
Paprika! is a window into emerging discourse from Yale School of Architecture and Yale School of Art. Every issue is student-curated and aims to broadcast diverse voices in the fields of art, architecture, and design. Every issue of Paprika! is a newspaper broadsheet uniquely designed by students from Yale’s Graphic Design program. No two issues are alike. Founded in 2014, Paprika! is named after the vibrant orange carpet in Rudolph Hall. The latest volume of Paprika! introduced editors from Yale’s School of Environment alongside architecture students in issues addressing magnitudes of environmental action.
Editors: Calder Birdsey, Peter Martinka, and Gabe Darley
Primary Faculty Advisor: Christopher Hawthorne
Thresholds 52: Disappearance, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Architecture ($1,000)
Established in 1992, Thresholds is the annual student-edited, peer-reviewed journal produced by the MIT Department of Architecture. Each independently-themed issue is edited by different MIT graduate students every year and features scholarship from leading scholars, designers, and students in the fields of architecture, art, and culture. The most recent issue, Thresholds 52: Disappearance, was co-edited by Samuel Dubois (PhD in History, Theory, and Criticism of Architecture) and Susan Willams (M.Arch). It explores the elusive topic of disappearance through a selection of scholarly papers, creative essays, and artistic projects from 23 authors based in the United States (Connecticut, Georgia, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, and Ohio) as well as abroad (Australia, Europe, Middle East). The complexity of disappearance as a concept mirrors its ambiguity as a word. It can simultaneously refer to the condition in which a person or thing cannot be seen or found; the process of moving from a state of visibility to invisibility; or the outcome of something or someone ceasing to appear. Disappearance is therefore both the subject and the result. Together, these authors and artists critically showcase how art, architecture, and related disciplines negotiate the material, spatial, and symbolic implications of various forms of disappearances.
Editors: Joshua Tan and Mingjia Chen
Advisory Board: Timothy Hyde (Chair) and eight internationally recognized female faculty from various institutions