After a full day of deliberation, the jury revealed this year’s three fellowship winners during an event hosted at KPF’s New York studio on April 23.
Prefacing with their enthusiasm for the talent displayed by all of this year’s submissions, the three guest jurors presented the winning portfolios, which stood out for their creative new applications of architectural ingenuity. Xiaotan Alex Yang, of Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design, will use the fellowship funding to study Cyclopean architecture in Southern Europe; Cian Hrabi, of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, has planned a trip to the highlands to study ancient Scottish stonework; and Jan MacBean, from the Architectural Association, is off to Shanghai and the Fujian province to learn about the courtyard houses of the Hakka people.
The jury for the fellowship’s 19th iteration included Jose Manuel Castillo, Chair of the Department of Architecture at Cornell’s College of Art Architecture and Planning; Wonne Ickx, Partner at Productora and Visiting Lecturer at Cornell AAP NYC; and Daisy Ames, Founding Principal at Studio Ames, Critic at Yale School of Architecture, and Assistant Professor Adjunct at Cooper Union. KPF Principals Marianne Kwok and James von Klemperer represented the firm on the Fellowship jury.
The KPF Traveling Fellowship awards monetary prizes to students in their penultimate year at one of the twenty-seven design schools with whom the firm has chosen to partner. The goal of the program is to allow and encourage students to broaden their education through a summer of travel-based architectural research before the completion of their studies.
Learn more about the Fellowship here and view the winning selections from 2024, 2023, 2022, and 2021.