Honours, Commendations, Prizes & Exemplary Projects 2020–21

This exhibition presents the work of the four students who were awarded the AA Diploma with Honours in the 2020–21 academic year alongside those who received Commendations, Awards & Prizes as well as the Exemplary Projects completed at the end of Third Year as well as from the Postgraduate Programmes.

As we return to the buildings for face-to-face teaching, the AA premises – including the AA Bar – are currently only accessible to staff and students. The showreels of the best work from the last academic year will therefore be installed both on site in the AA Bar and online, below, for visitors to enjoy remotely.

In addition, you can watch the Honours presentations by nominees from across the Diploma School here.

THE RECIPIENTS OF THE AA DIPLOMA WITH HONOURS ARE:

Jumanah Bawazir
Diploma Unit 12
HAQ: Project 73 – A Reframing of Palestine

Philip Gharios
Diploma Unit 9
In the Name of Resilience – Crises, Care, and Civic Infrastructures in Beirut

Shaha Raphael
Diploma Unit 17
أرضي صلي ي, earth bound

Zaina Sweidan
Diploma Unit 13
The Invisible Core

THE RECIPIENTS OF THE AA DIPLOMA WITH COMMENDATION ARE:

Boji Hu
Diploma Unit 1
Urban Sedimentology

Wai Lo
Diploma Unit 1
Symbiotic Wrap: Architecture as Biological Entity

Erika Stadnik
Diploma Unit 2
The Virtual Unconscious

Joy Evelyn Wilson
Diploma Unit 2

Aizhen Chen
Diploma Unit 3
BLUE VEINS OF MEGACITY: a flux condition to connect fragmented habitats on Lagos Canal https://pr2021.aaschool.ac.uk/students/aizhen-chen

Taiki Takemura
Diploma 3
Vertical Soundscape for Multispecies Well-being

Oussama Garti
Diploma Unit 4
The Ocean Color Institute

Vidhi Goel
Diploma Unit 4
Anti-Palace, Governance through Clouds

Evangelia Avramidou
Diploma Unit 5

Nour Hamade
Diploma Unit 6
Sex, Ruin(s) & (3rd) Space

Dewi Thomas Preece
Diploma Unit 6
Title

Amalia-Anastasia Gîscă-Chitac
Diploma Unit 7
Non–Frame, a device for the collusion of territorial object and territorial image

Amy Glover
Diploma Unit 7
The Fens: Protocols of Care for a Decaying Landscape

Vasilis Appios
Diploma Unit 9
BioCultural Heritage in the Making

Zhaoxi Tian
Diploma Unit 10
King's Cross Wall: Taking Down The Wall

Neophytos Christou
Diploma Unit 11
Montaging Shadows

Shaeron Santosa
Diploma Unit 11
To Isle of Dogs

Jasmine Abu Hamdan
Diploma Unit 12
The Hakawati Forum: Reconstruction by Narratives

Khaled Al-bashir
Diploma Unit 13
Cementing Zionism

Esther Brizard
Diploma Unit 14
La Salle Commune: Retrofitting the Parisian Cité Ouvrière using in-built furniture

Hunter Doyle
Diploma Unit 14
Porches: De-Sealing Atlanta's Social Housing

Ellie Cullen
Diploma Unit 15
Longevity is a game that must be easier to play

Gabrielle Sian Eglen
Diploma 15

Nikola Miloradovic
Diploma Unit 16
Homo Mobilis

Aijie Xiong
Diploma Unit 16

Wei-I Chen
Diploma Unit 17
Forming Collectives

Ele How Yan Mun
Diploma Unit 18
London Unbuilding

Jihane-May Slaoui
Diploma Unit 18
"The Souk" an accelerator of material reuse

Wonyoung Jeong
Diploma Unit 19

Irina Elena Mania
Diploma Unit 19
Platform Choreographies: A Stone Infrastructure for Public Health

Tanya Paula Sui Sien Lee-Monteiro
Diploma Unit 20
A New Age of Childcare

Shobha Narendran
Diploma Unit 21
Dirty Dancing: Principles of Occupation of the Oblique

THE RECIPIENTS OF AWARDS AND PRIZES FOR 2020–21 ARE:

Renee Die Girbau
Diploma 14
Alex Stanhope Forbes Prize

Qi Zhu
Experimental 11
Brian Henderson Prize

Richard Aina
Diploma 6
Dennis Sharp Writing Prize

Esther Brizard
Diploma 14
Dennis Sharp Writing Prize

Yi Huang
Experimental 16
Denys Lasdun Award for Excellence in Architecture

Anna Simmen
Experimental 2
Denys Lasdun Award for Excellence in Architecture

Nour Hamade
Diploma 6
Henry Florence Studentship

Dalal Itani
Diploma 6
Henry Saxon Snell Prize

Agnes Qinyuan Zhou
3rd Year
Holloway Trust Prize

Georges Gedeon
Diploma 21
Holloway Trust Prize

Tanuj Kohli
Diploma 7
Howard Colls Studentship

Paola Murguia Garcia
Foundation
Julia Wood Foundation Prize

Amy Glover
Diploma 7
Nicholas Pozner Memorial Prize for Single Best Drawing

Vasilis Appios
Diploma 9
Ralph Knott Memorial Prize

Khaled Al-bashir
Diploma 13
William Glover Prize

Thomas Faulkner
Diploma Unit 12
AAF Travel Award

Hui Fen Deborah Wong
Diploma 2
Alexander Memorial Travel Prize

Iseult Campbell-Lange
1st Year
Jane Chu Travel Award

Oscar Ssu-Kuo Lo
Experimental 9
Mike Davies Travel Award

Yanling He
Experimental 6
Peter Sabara Travel Award

Nena Aru
Diploma 14
AA Prize

Theodora Giovanazzi
Diploma 14
AA Prize

Michal Chudner
1st Year
History and Theory Studies Writing Award

Qi Zhu
Experimental 11
History and Theory Studies Writing Award

Ferial Massoud
3rd Year
History and Theory Studies Writing Award

Emma Coates
Foundation
Communication & Media Studies Annual Prizes

Charlotte Birrell
1st Year
Communication & Media Studies Annual Prizes

Ningwei Liu
Experimental 14
Communication & Media Studies Annual Prizes

Malgorzata Tchorzewska
Experimental Unit 14
Environmental & Technical Studies High Pass with Distinction

Boji Hu
Diploma Unit 1
Environmental & Technical Studies High Pass with Distinction

Carolina Gilardi
Housing and Urbanism
David & Beverly Bernstein Award

THE NOMINATED EXEMPLARY PROJECTS AT THE END OF THIRD YEAR AND FROM THE TAUGHT POSTGRADUATE PROGRAMMES ARE:

Marina Matinopoulou
Experimental Unit 1
House After Life

Anna Rosina Simmen
Experimental Unit 2
Space of the Looted Objects

Qi Xue
Experimental Unit 3
Raving Forest

Stoyan Gerchev
Experimental Unit 4
Radiating Infrastructures

Ryan Darius
Experimental Unit 5
Worthless Iceshore

Zeena Ismail
Experimental Unit 6
Kitchen City

Giulia Rosa
Experimental Unit 7
Strata: Layering over time

Lucia Martinez-Botas Herrera
Experimental Unit 8
Re-imaging a Women’s Healing Refuge

Xiaoya He
Experimental Unit 9
City Synthesizer

Aiden Domican
Experimental Unit 10
On Neutral Ground

Iro Davlanti Lo
Experimental Unit 11

Nikola Kechrimpari
Experimental Unit 12

Paul Lucian Cristian
Experimental Unit 13
The Institute of Extinction

Malgorzata Tchorzewska
Experimental Unit 14
The Miners’Lung

Linden James Seddon
Experimental Unit 15
Dual Paradigms: A Site of Productive Fiction

Yi Huang
Experimental Unit 16
Linguistics of the city: Rename Your City, A Civil Movement

Damian Nicholas Kam
Experimental Unit 17
Love(the)less

Lars Johann Kumpfert
Experimental Unit 18
Learning Mound

Sari King
Experimental Unit 10
Blackfriars’ Fish Market

Jihoon Baek
Experimental Unit 15
Civid Floors – The future City Hall of the Hague

Yolande Huanzhou Wang
Experimental 17
Living Machines

Tao Wang
Housing and Urbanism
Garden and City - a Formal Investigation on Dwelling at Finsbury Park’

Zhou Yu
Housing and Urbanism
Rethinking the Periphery

Carolina Gilardi
Housing and Urbanism
A new life for vacant office towers

Daryan Knoblauch
Projective Cities
The Domestication of Water

Anna Dwyer
Sustainable Environmental Design
Sustainably Regenerating Levittown: A Retrofit of the Prototypical American Suburb

Yufei Dong, Qiuxi Li, Chenganran Luo
Landscape Urbanism
Forest N Concept

Berin Kocabas, Yi Steven Zhang, Debolina Ray
Emergent Technologies & Design
High-Tectonic City

Angelina Kozhevnikova, Konuralp Senol, Kyungha Kwon
DRL
Radical Gravity

Jiaqi Wang
History and Critical Thinking
Alchemy of Earth: Construction Sites in the Great Leap Forward, 1958-1960

Filip Mesko
History and Critical Thinking
As Above, So Below: Projecting Mining in Europe, 1500–1800

Seb Birch
Design & Make MArch
Densely-packed timber blocks (DTBs): mass timber construction using irregular crown wood'

Kexin Zhang
Spatial Performance & Design (AAIS)
Down Here