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
Mount Lemmon Outdoor Library: Nickolas Witt '23 B.Arch
Nickolas Witt's Mount Lemmon Outdoor Library, Merit Award winner of the inaugural AGM/Ascension Universal Design Prize in 2021, is comprised of two simple floors united around an existing site tree which filters natural light in all innovative spaces.
MS Urban Planning Student Wins Best Student Map Award from Arizona Geographic Information Council
First-year MS Urban Planning student Glenn Ingram has won the Best Student Map award among all collegiate entrants in the 2021 Arizona Geographic Information Council Maps & Apps Contest. His map, "New York City 100-Year Floodplain," contrasts NYC's population density with the FEMA 100-year floodplain.
Harlem Music Academy & Studios: Nikolas Altamura '21 B.Arch
Nikolas Altamura's Harlem Music Academy & Studios, winner of the AIA/School of Architecture Design Excellence highest honor for 2021, builds from the neighborhood's rich musical history to serve low-income, at-risk youth by providing access to expression through a music school proposed for a site in East Harlem.
UArizona Architecture Students Design a More Sustainable Tucson Thanks to CAPLA Partnership with GLHN
Since 2017, GLHN Architects & Engineers has sponsored and provided technical advising on four architecture studios designed to craft a more sustainable Tucson by the year 2050. This year, the focus turns to urban food systems.
Tortuga Ranch: Alec Kelly-Jones '22 M.Arch
The architecture at Tortuga Ranch, designed by Alec Kelly-Jones '22 M.Arch, expresses the goal of creating spaces that promote interaction, support a variety of traditional practices and help youth understand themselves within the context of all Yaqui people who came before them; translating time, place, celebration and tradition as one generation joins another for the benefit of all generations to come.
Climate Change, Architecture Change, Everything Change: Sam Owen '22 B.Arch
This infill project by Sam Owens '22 B.Arch houses the Cooperative Extension Innovation Center which helps bridge the gap between the University of Arizona and the general public. It recognizes that the world is in constant flux, and the human-built world can no longer insist on pretending to be static. Gone are the days of growth without regard for decay, says Owen.
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.