I picked up my complimentary copy of the 2009 RISD Department of Architecture Alumni Travel Award publication. The book was complimentary because I was awarded the honor of inclusion in the competition publication, of which I am very proud! My fellow publishees (Robbie Williams, Alice Hsieh, Chelsea Limbird, Brandon Massey, Liz McCormick, Andrew Simes, and Claire Wood) each present a stellar project. Joe Combs took the 2nd prize for a project done while I was his TA (hopefully, my “guidance” didn’t keep him from the top spot) .

The first prize went to Evita Yumul’s degree project “Architectures of Nonchalance, In Five Parts.” Super, super amazing project. No archi-babble, just a literary project of mysticism, rumors, and Borgian-intrigue (you can check it out at the 2008 RIBA Presidents Medal site, for which the project was submitted). Evita’s series of drawings, rotating through axonometric space, really are aspirational.

Unfortunately, the book is only available for purchase directly from the RISD Architectural Series, and they don’t offer super-saver shipping.  Save your money, my dear readers (all three of you), because I’ve included my submission to the competition below (which is better, anyway.  My layout got a little mangled somewhere on the way to publication).

The award jury included Ada Tolla of Lot-Ek, John Hartmann, Lauren Kogood, and Lynnette Widder.