Alumni Design Award

Carnegie Mellon Architecture is currently accepting applications for the 2025 award. Applications are due on Tuesday, March 11, 2025 at 11:59pm ET. Submit your application at the link below.

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The Alumni Design Award is granted by Carnegie Mellon Architecture faculty to a graduating student in the Bachelor of Architecture (B.Arch) program. The award recognizes exceptional design and representation as demonstrated through studio work within the last two years of the program.

To be considered for the Alumni Design Award, applicants must submit a complete application that includes the following information:

• A positioning statement (200 words maximum) that frames the work in terms of a theme of the applicant’s own choosing and explains how this theme is represented in their portfolio
• A design portfolio (<20 MB, 25 pages maximum) of curated design work from the final two years of studio that includes a table of contents and the following items: 1) the positioning statement, 2) design portfolio

Note: Applicants may include collaborative projects but must state which projects were done in collaboration with others. Applicants should only show work examples that they directly contributed to. For each collaborative project, the applicant must indicate the names of all authors and which aspect(s) of the project they worked on.

Spring 2025 Jury: TBD

Spring 2025 Award Amount: $1,000 (one (1) available)

All graduating fifth-year students receiving a Bachelor of Architecture degree are eligible to apply. The awardee is announced at the school’s annual Diploma Ceremony.

Carnegie Mellon Architecture is currently accepting applications for the 2025 award. Applications are due on Tuesday, March 11, 2025 at 11:59pm ET.

• 2024: Brian Hartman (B.Arch ’24) & Shray Tripathi (B.Arch ’24)
• 2023: Xiaoyu Kang (B.Arch ’23), Carson Michaelis (B.Arch ’23) & Xu Xu (B.Arch ’23)
• 2022: Clara (Jieli) Zhao (B.Arch ’22)