Future100 Architecture Graduate Winners

Brook Boughton | Pratt Institute

NOMINATOR: Alexandra Barker, Assistant Chairperson of Graduate Architecture

With thorough contextual research that delves into human and material histories, Boughton seeks to enhance each site’s inherent qualities while prioritizing environmental concerns.

Liya Rachal Chandy | University at Buffalo

NOMINATOR: Samina Raja, Professor, Department of Urban and Regional Planning Director, Food Systems Planning and Healthy Communities Lab Associate, and Dean for Research and Inclusive Excellence, School of Architecture and Planning

Chandy seeks to create inclusive and culturally relevant spaces, such as a homeless shelter that offers support for substance abusers and underground pods designed for meditation.  

Dongqi Chen | University of Pennsylvania

NOMINATOR: Andrew Saunders, Associate Professor, MArch Program Director

A Dales Fellowship recipient, Chen believes in the capacity of architecture to act as a public tool and an active player in building resilience, community, and a sustainable future. 

Sophie Clapperton | Boston Architectural College

NOMINATOR: Karen Nelson, Dean, School of Architecture

Clapperton’s proposal for an amphibious community for the Kashechewan First Nations people of Northern Ontario, Canada, is an inventive project that demonstrates how a deep understanding of cultural context can affect design.

Denice Guillermo | University at Buffalo  

NOMINATOR: Annette LeCuyer, Professor

Guillermo’s lively sketches and renderings illustrate a portfolio that demonstrates her interest in using design as a tool for sustainable change. 

Yousef Ismail | New York Institute of Technology

NOMINATOR: Pablo Lorenzo-Eiroa, Director, MS in Architecture, Computational Technologies Program, and Associate Professor

Ismail has been studying architecture since 2014 and has a firm grasp of the technologies used in contemporary practice, from modeling and rendering to 3D scanning and photogrammetry.

Salma Kattass | New York Institute of Technology

NOMINATOR: Pablo Lorenzo-Eiroa, Director, MS in Architecture, Computational Technologies Program, and Associate Professor

A junior architect and Fulbright grantee, Kattass utilizes methods such as 3D scanning and point cloud collection to research and represent the spatial experience of various New York museums.

Umar Mahmood | University of Pennsylvania

NOMINATOR: Andrew Saunders, Associate Professor and MArch Program Director

Mahmood references fractal geometry to innovatively update conventional concepts, like melding man-made residential towers and natural landforms.

Mateo Mantilla | Savannah College of Art and Design

NOMINATOR: Anthony Cissell, Chair of Architecture

Mantilla’s background includes an internship with Leo A. Daly and an award for a concept of vertically distributed public spaces, designed with classmates Ellen Filiatreau and Erin Legan.

Danny Ortega | University of Pennsylvania

NOMINATOR: Andrew Saunders, Associate Professor, MArch Program Director

Fascinated that architecture can’t be “defined through a singular form of media,” Ortega has created a portfolio that proposes new hybridized typologies, illustrated in extraordinarily captivating models and drawings.

Cami Quinteros | University of Massachusetts Amherst

NOMINATOR: Carey Clouse, Graduate Program Director

Quinteros is a force when it comes to project visualizations, which reference the regrowth of bones, otherness, and human bias with their abstracted beauty.

Forrest Rall | University at Buffalo

NOMINATOR: Miguel Guitart, Assistant Professor

Light wells and green infill are frequent themes in Rall’s portfolio, including his project Carved Illuminance, a stunningly daylit, green-roofed museum, designed with Raegen Lester.

Dario Sabidussi | University of Pennsylvania

NOMINATOR: Andrew Saunders, Associate Professor, MArch Program Director

Cinematic visuals and thought-provoking research underly Sabidussi’s exceptional portfolio. 

Nicole Sarmiento | University at Buffalo 

NOMINATOR: Joyce Hwang, Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies

Sarmiento creates striking, socially relevant work with an excellent standard of technical research. 

Peik Shelton | University of Pennsylvania

NOMINATOR: Andrew Saunders, Associate Professor, MArch Program Director

Shelton’s seductive renderings and drawings merge with brave, truly original ideas—particularly where architecture meets the urban realm.  

Weizi Song | ArtCenter College of Design

NOMINATOR: Emil Mertzel, Professor

Winner of a 2020 ArtCenter Denhart Family Sustainability Prize, Song is particularly effective at manipulating rammed earth, which he employs in endlessly artful ways, from textured facades to intricate tiles. 

Andriani Sugianto | California Baptist University

NOMINATOR: Keelan Kaiser, Architecture Program Director and Professor

Exceptional rendering abilities and astute reactions to context, culture, and client make Sugianto’s portfolio particularly strong.  

Phuong Vu | University at Buffalo

NOMINATOR: Georg Rafailidis, Associate Professor

Vu seeks to give form to new cultural experiences. Bold formal moves, like enveloping a student center in landscaping, directly express the central ideas of the buildings.

Yuxuan Xiong | University of Pennsylvania

NOMINATOR: Andrew Saunders, Associate Professor, MArch Program Director

Xiong’s provocative proposals—for a public bathhouse on a river, an apartment renovation, and a vertical cemetery—are rooted in their site and place, but seek to establish new building archetypes.