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2008 Summer/Fall Student News Items
Katsunori Shigemi was part of the pool of ten finalists chosen from 101 received submissions for the 2008 prestigious SOM Prize. The jurors of this year's competition were: Stanley Saitowitz, Stanley Saitowitz Architects; Jim Jennings, Jim Jennings Architecture; Henry Urbach, Helen Hilton Raiser Curator of Architecture and Design, SFMOMA; Anne Fougeron, Fougeron Architecture; and Craig Hartman, SOM (jury chair).
"The jurors agreed that Katsunori’s portfolio was strong because it exhibited a broad range of projects, included an example of a well-executed model, and that he had clearly contemplated his research and travel goals."
Katusuya Arai and Clayton Taylor are interning this summer in Vienna with the Austrian firm Coop Himmelb(l)au.
Jai Kumaran is interniing in the Belgium firm Studio Arne Quinze Architects in Kortrijk, Belgium.
Jeff Hammerquist has completed his fourth year at the DIS in Copenhagen, Denmark. This has been a great experience so far, and I am proud to let you know that I have been offered an internship with a Danish architecture firm called Dorte Mandrup.
Francisco Marvilla who graduated in June 2008 was featured in the Cal Poly news as part of the "Great Grads from Class of 2008."
Marvilla migrated to the United States fro Mexico when he was 10. He might have been a professional soccer player in Mexico if not for a promise he made to his mother and the help of a California Academic Bill.
Marvilla was scouted to play professional soccer for one of five teams. The paperwork and all plans were in place for him to move back to Mexico. Marvilla planned to apply to UC Berkeley, Cal Poly, San Luis Obisipo, Cal Poly Pomona and a few other universities until he found out that he was being recruited to play soccer. He withdrew applications from all universities except Cal Poly and Cal Poly Pomona-"honestly, to lessen my chances of being admitted because I promised my mother I would go to university only if I got accepted to the schools I applied to," he says.
Marvilla came to Cal Poly under California Academic Bill 540. AB 540 allows no-resident aliens to pay in-state tuition rates if they attend a California high school for at least three years, graduate from a California high school or receive the equivalent general education diploma, are registered or currently enrolled in a California Community College, California State University, or a University of California, and sign a statement with the college or university stating that they will apply for legal residency as soon as he/she is eligible to do so.
Marvilla graduated high school in the top 10 percent of his class and his residency was already in process. His family paid for his entire education since non-resident aliens are not eligible for state or federal financial aid.
He will graduate and begin work with PCR Design and consulting in Santa Maria. Soccer is now a hobby but he hopes to coach in the future.
Marvilla plans to save enough money to accomplish his goals of pursuing a master's degree at an ivy league school, a Ph.D. in Europe, and going on to teach at the university level.
Megan Kathleen West, Rachel Lauren Glabe, Caitlin Marie Potter, & Leigh Ehren Guggemos received an Honorable Mention in the 8th Annual ACSA/AISC Steel Design Student Competition in the category Assembling Housing. These students were mentored by Architecture Professors Prof. Thomas Fowler IV, James, James Doerfler, Mark Cabrinha, and by Prof. Kevin Dong in the Architecture Engineering Program. The competition was part of an interdisciplinary studio conducted during the Winter and Spring quarters of 2008.
"The competition, which is sponsored by the American Institute of Steel Construction (AISC) and administered by ACSA, offered students an opportunity to compete in two separate categories: Category I : Assembling Housing challenged architecture students to investigate the varied functional and aesthetic uses for steel as a building material for urban housing, and Category II was an open program with limited restrictions."
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