2008 Heintzelman Prize Announced

Final projects of a number of graduating architecture students at Kansas State University were recently selected for special recognition in the Heintzelman Prize Competition.

The Heintzelman Prize is awarded annually for outstanding design achievements by students in the final semester of the professional architecture degree program. The prize is named after J. Cranston Heintzelman, a long-time teacher in the Department of Architecture. One student or team of students in each fifth-year design studio is nominated by the faculty as a Heintzelman finalist. A jury of three distinguished practitioners and/or academics selects the Heintzelman Prize winner. Prize recipients were announced during the College of Architecture, Planning and Design commencement ceremony on May 17.

The recipient of the 2008 Heintzelman Prize was Whang Jin Suh, Kansas City, MO. His winning project was “Kansas City: Hidden Urban Spaces-A Music School,” designed as a culminating part of a year-long urban study for the reconstruction of downtown Kansas City. The studio was led by Professor Vladimir Krstic, in collaboration with distinguished Argentinian architect Miguel Angel Roca, the 2008 Victor L. Regnier Visiting Professor in the Department of Architecture.

Honorable mention was awarded to Jeffrey Rice, Jefferson City, MO, whose studio was led by Professor Robert Condia. His project, entitled “The American Academy of Beauty,” proposed a mixed use building of approximately 50,000 square feet to be located in Kansas City, KS.

Other nominees were David Hildebrandt, Kansas City, KS, for “Housing Development in Keko Magurumbas, Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania;” Benjamin Strain, Omaha, NE, for “College of Architecture, Planning and Design at Kabul University, Kabul, Afghanistan;” Joseph Vessell, Jefferson City, MO, for “Post-Disaster Prototype Dwelling;” and the “Greensburg Cubed” project team of Jonathan Anderson, St. Louis, MO; Andrew Becker, Nixa, MO; Skyler Bonser, Wichita, KS; Collin Curry, Overland Park, KS; Jacob Henley, Kansas City, KS; Melody Meek Jacobson, Priest River, ID; Clemente Jaquez-Herrera, Garden City, KS; Sally Maddock, Lakewood, CO; Adrienne Stolwyk, Liberty, MO; Aaron Vanderpool, Blue Springs, MO; Erin Wages, Olathe, KS; Malcolm Watkins, Gower, MO; Laura Wilke, Columbus, NE; and Jessica Williams, Manhattan, KS. Their studios were led by Professors Nathan Howe, Donald Watts, Christopher Spaw, and Larry Bowne, respectively.

The projects are on display through the summer of 2008 in the Chang Gallery of Seaton Hall.

This year’s invited jurors included Robert McCarter, practicing architect, author and professor of architecture at Washington University in St. Louis, MO; Dwayne Oyler, K-State architecture alumnus, practicing architect and undergraduate thesis coordinator at Southern California Institute of Architecture, Los Angeles, CA; and Carl Puljak, K-State architecture alumnus, professor and director of the School of Architecture, Louisiana Tech University, Ruston, LA.

For more information, contact:
Vladimir Krstic, 785.532.1114
Diane Potts, 785.532.1090