STUDENT PROJECTS & AWARDS
Students create a wide variety of outstanding and often award-winning work during their time at CAPLA.
Check out a gallery of select student work or scroll down to view more detailed examples of student projects and work from undergraduate and graduate architecture, landscape architecture, sustainable built environments, urban planning and other students:
Course: ARC 201 | Professors Christopher Domin, Oscar Lopez, Stefan Mostert, Mike Silver, and Siri Trumble | Students: Ava Beveridge & Katie Sweiven
Course: Capstone | Professor: Susannah Dickinson | Student: Kate Stuteville
Course: Capstone | Instructor: Susannah Dickinson | Student: Kate Stuteville
Course: Capstone | Professor: Christopher Domin | Student: Amal Anooh
Course: Capstone | Instructor: Christopher Domin | Student: Amal Anoohi
Course: Capstone | Professor: Christopher Domin | Student: Amal Anoohi
Course: Capstone | Instructor: Christopher Domin | Student: Amal Anoohi
Course: Capstone | Professor: Susannah Dickinson | Student: Jerrick Tsosie
Course: Capstone | Instructor: Susannah Dickinson | Student: Jerrick Tsosie
Course: Capstone | Professor: Christopher Domin | Student: Tianzhi Sun
Course: Capstone | Instructor: Christopher Domin | Student: Tianzhi Sun
Course: Techne III | Professor Susannah Dickinson and Instructor Sheehan Wachter | Student: Alex Provine
Course: Techne III | Instructors: Susannah Dickinson and Sheehan Wachter | Student: Alex Provine
Course: Design Communication III | Professor: Susannah Dickinson | Student: Andrew Puppos
Course: Design Communication III | Instructor: Susannah Dickinson | Student: Andrew Puppos
Course: Design Communication III | Professor: Susannah Dickinson | Student: Athena Myers
Course: Design Communication III | Instructor: Susannah Dickinson | Student: Athena Myers
Course: Solar Decathlon Design Challenge | Studio Professor: Jonathan Bean PhD | Students: Josh Muckenthaler, Sierra Yang, Nik Altamura and Chumei Ru
Course: Solar Decathlon Design Challenge | Instructor: Jonathan Bean | Students: Josh Muckenthaler, Sierra Yang, Nik Altamura and Chumei Ru
Course: Master's Thesis | Professor: Aletheia Ida PhD and Instructor: Bill Mackey | Student: Suzan Borazjani
Course: Master's Thesis | Instructors: Aletheia Ida and Bill Mackey | Student: Suzan Borazjani
Course: MS Arch Thesis | Thesis Chair Professor: Aletheia Ida PhD | Student: Fatemeh Sharaf Zadeh
Course: Master's Thesis | Instructor: Aletheia Ida | Student: Fatemeh Sharaf Zadeh
Course: Orvieto Study Abroad | Instructor: Oscar Lopez
Course: Orvieto Study Abroad | Instructor: Oscar Lopez
Course: Capstone | Professor: Dan Hoffman | Student: Audie Batsford
Course: Capstone | Instructor: Dan Hoffman | Student: Audie Batsford
Course: Capstone | Professor: Bill Mackey | Student: Juliana Seymour
Course: Capstone | Instructor: Bill Mackey | Student: Juliana Seymour
Course: Capstone | Professor: Bill Mackey | Student: Juliana Seymour
Course: Capstone | Instructor: Bill Mackey | Student: Juliana Seymour
Course: Design Communication III | Professor: Susannah Dickinson | Student: Pawel Sapiecha
Course: Design Communication III | Instructor: Susannah Dickinson | Student: Pawel SapiechaNarratives and Galleries
Highlighting the Class of 2025: Ollie Freshour, SBE
Ollie Freshour is graduating with a BS in Sustainable Built Environments with an emphasis in Sustainable Buildings. As an online student, Ollie made the most of their experience traveling from Indiana to Tucson to connect with the CAPLA community and explore the ENR2 Building. From designing a sustainable park in Elkhart to planning a future as a certified arborist, Ollie is ready to make a lasting impact on urban environments.
Highlighting the Class of 2025: Annamaria Pongratz BLA
Annamaria Pongratz is graduating with a Bachelor of Landscape Architecture and a minor in Art History. Reflecting on her time at CAPLA, she shared how the experience shaped her as both a designer and collaborator. This fall, she’ll continue her academic journey as a graduate student at CAPLA. One of her proudest achievements? Designing a sensory garden for a children’s museum in her planting design class—a project that reflects her creativity and care for inclusive, engaging spaces.
Architecture students design and build shelter to serve Tucson's unhoused
For their final capstone project, architecture students designed and built a prototype 8-by-12-foot micro-shelter that they hope lays the groundwork for a network of similar shelters for unhoused people in Southern Arizona.
Highlighting the Class of 2025: Jedidiah Perea, B.Arch
After graduation, Jedidiah Perea is heading to Spain before starting his path to licensure. He reflects on his time at CAPLA as transformative, with late nights in studio and meaningful project, especially a sustainable housing design for the Hopi Tribe, shaping him into a stronger designer.
CAPLA students reimagine accessible architecture through Universal Design
Bachelor of Architecture students were recognized in the 2024 AGM Universal Design Student Awards for innovative projects that centered empathy, accessibility, and the human experience. Winning designs by Taranm Akbary and Sadey Bowles reimagined inclusive spaces in Bisbee, showcasing how Universal Design can elevate both creativity and community impact.
MS.Arch Grad’s Research Award Signals Bright Future
As Montse Estrany Bover graduates with a Master of Science in Architecture from CAPLA, she leaves with a prestigious research award for her thesis on Catalunya’s historic agricultural landscapes. Now working at an architecture firm in Spain, she plans to pursue a Ph.D. to continue blending research and practice.
CAPLA Design/Build
CAPLA Design/Build involves students in hands-on projects via studio courses, independent study and other courses with lab components. The pedagogy of design/build centers around the belief that learning by doing is a powerful method of gaining and retaining knowledge because of the immediate application to tangible problems.