• Dome City - Semi-Finalist (2009) Crystal City Couture T-Shirts, ArtWhino, Washington, DC • WIRED NEXTFest Grant (2008) Gateway Pavilion Construction, Chicago, IL • Certificate for Excellence in Teaching, Virginia Tech - SoA+D (2008) • Creative Achievement Award, Virginia Tech - SoA+D (2008) • Excellence in Outreach, Digital Craft Symposium, Virginia Tech - SoA+D (2008) • Lecture or Seminar Course, Excellence in Teaching, Art of Building (2008) • History Channel's City of the Future - Finalist (2008) Washington DC 2108 • Envisioning Gateway Competition - Third Place (2007) Gateway Recreation Area, National Park Service, Van Alen Institute, New York, NY. • Faculty Research Grant, Virginia Tech - SoA+D (2007) • New Faculty Teaching Award, Virginia Tech - SoA+D (2006) • Flight 93 National Memorial Competition - Finalist (2005) National Park Service, Washington, D.C. • form-Z Joint Study Program Award of Distinction (2003)

As an independent faculty of Delft University of Technology, the Architecture course dates back to 1901. The Architecture Faculty was housed from 1970 onwards in a building at Berlageweg 1, but a devastating fire on 13 May 2008 forced it to search new accommodation once more. The competition to design the former building of the Architecture Faculty of what was then still called Delft Polytechnic was won by the firm of Van den Broek & Bakema in 1957. The competition brief specified a maximum of 700 students, but by the time the building was completed in 1970 the number had already more than doubled to about 1,650. The addition

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