2014–2015 Fellowship Recipients
John Angelo N. Alonzo | Manila, Philippines
Charlie M. St. C. Blanchard | San Francisco, CA
Charles Dorrance-King | Philadelphia, PA
Maja Hjerten Knutson | Malmö, Sweden
Matthew J. Maiello | Flint, MI
Alexander McLean | Cambridge, MA
Nicholas A. Pacula | Beirut, Lebanon
Andrea S. Recalde | Hobart, NY
Christopher P. Stewart | Tularosa Basin, NM
Projects
John Angelo Alonzo
John Angelo Alonzo traveled to Manila, Philippines, where he investigated the legacy of Daniel Burnham’s 1904 plan through the lens of the city’s historic waterways. With the help of local engineers and planners, he visited and documented the network of river tributaries in support of his thesis that the neglected waterways hold the key to the revitalization of the city.
Charles Dorrance-King
Charles Dorrance-King traveled to Philadelphia to visit the Denise Scott-Brown & Robert Venturi Collection at the University of Pennsylvania, and Marcel Duchamp’s Étant donnés at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. An alternative reading of urban architectural space and form and the use of iconography and symbolism in art informed his own approach to how allegory and parody are drawn, designed, and constructed.
Maja Knutson
Maja Hjertén Knutson traveled to Sweden to study specific threads in 20th century Scandinavian architecture, with a focus on regional manifestations of the res publica. She visited state-provided housing for recently arrived asylum seekers as well as a range of public architectural works in Stockholm and Malmö.
Matthew Maiello
Matthew Maiello visited the city of Flint, Michigan, once home of the famed Buick City automobile manufacturing plant. The trip was a continuation of an analysis of this now vacant brownfield, looking for the remaining infrastructures and relics in this desolate industrial landscape.
Alexander McLean
Alexander McLean visited the Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments at Harvard University and met with Professors Peter Galison and Caroline Jones, to gain a deeper understanding of the historical use of models in the sciences and the role objects play in constructing and retaining knowledge.
Nicholas Pacula
Nicholas Pacula traveled to Beirut, Lebanon where he spent twelve days living in the Shatila Refugee Camp. This experience allowed him to envision architecture as a mediator between socio-political conflict and the built environment in urban refugee settlements.
Christopher Stewart
Christopher Stewart visited the White Sands National Monument and Missile Range to investigate the desert and adjacent military base. On this trip he discovered the nuances and sensitivities of the desert’s ecology and explored the site through drawing and photography.
Andrea Recalde
Andrea Recalde visited the Future School in Hobart, New York. The school has governing ideas that provide an education through design-build and permaculture methodologies. This education is meant to teach sustainable ways of reaping food from the land and managing water, an agricultural philosophy governed by working with nature and building the land in a holistic way.
Charlie Blanchard
Charlie Blanchard traveled to San Francisco in order to understand the impact the booming tech industry is having on the Bay Area’s housing and transportation infrastructure. He was able to visit the campuses of affluent tech companies and the eventual site of his thesis proposal, the artificial land mass Treasure Island.
