Researchers tackling innovative housing strategies selected as SOM Foundation 2023 Research Prize winners
The SOM Foundation has announced two teams of academics as the winners of its 2023 Research Prize. Two pairs of teams from the University of Michigan and the University of Cincinnati, and the University of Texas at San Antonio and the Appalachian State University, respectively, received $40,000 each to pursue projects related to the topic “Adapting Housing Strategies to Respond to New Realities” as chosen by the foundation. This is the sixth edition of the Prize, which was created in 2018 to “cultivate new ideas and meaningful research that addresses the critical issues of our time.”The Prize is open to any faculty currently teaching at accredited degree programs in architecture, landscape architecture, interior architecture, urban design, or engineering in the United States. The field was led by the midwestern duo that combined Gabriel Cuéllar from the University of Michigan Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning with the University of Cincinnati College of Design, Architecture, Art, and Planning's De Peter Yi. Their project titled "Block by Block: Advancing New American Dreams and Housing Justice by Aligning Design with Zoning Reform" strove to deliver "more just" housing defined by block scale and delimited by the restrictive zoning apparatus for neighborhoods in Detroit and Cincinnati that had traditionally been developed on a lot-by-lot basis. Read the full post on Bustler
The SOM Foundation has announced two teams of academics as the winners of its 2023 Research Prize. Two pairs of teams from the University of Michigan and the University of Cincinnati, and the University of Texas at San Antonio and the Appalachian State University, respectively, received $40,000 each to pursue projects related to the topic “Adapting Housing Strategies to Respond to New Realities” as chosen by the foundation. This is the sixth edition of the Prize, which was created in 2018 to “cultivate new ideas and meaningful research that addresses the critical issues of our time.”
The Prize is open to any faculty currently teaching at accredited degree programs in architecture, landscape architecture, interior architecture, urban design, or engineering in the United States.
The field was led by the midwestern duo that combined Gabriel Cuéllar from the University of Michigan Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning with the University of Cincinnati College of Design, Architecture, Art, and Planning's De Peter Yi. Their project titled "Block by Block: Advancing New American Dreams and Housing Justice by Aligning Design with Zoning Reform" strove to deliver "more just" housing defined by block scale and delimited by the restrictive zoning apparatus for neighborhoods in Detroit and Cincinnati that had traditionally been developed on a lot-by-lot basis. Read the full post on Bustler
