Announcing the Recipients of the 2026 Master of Architecture Program Travel Awards

The Master of Architecture (M.Arch) program is proud to announce the recipients of the 2026 travel awards. 

The awards support travel proposals for work grounded in architectural design research across a range of diverse contexts, practices and cultures. Upon completion of their travel, the recipients deliver a Pecha Kucha style presentation of their travel study and ongoing research.

Committee: Heather Bizon, Gerard Damiani, Laura Garófalo, Sarosh Anklesaria

Sarthak Bansal, Singapore, Malaysia & Indonesia: "Hybrid Mass Timber Systems in Hot Humid Asia"

Ishvari Chavan, The United States (New York City, New Canaan, Washington, D.C.): "Stabilizing and Destabilizing the Floor Datum: Movement, Vision and Posture"

Aatmi Chitalia, Bulgaria (Sofia, Kazanlak, Dimitrovgrad): "Dissonant Heritage: Socialist Architecture and Its Political Afterlives in Bulgaria"

Andrew Long, France & Switzerland: "Reviving Rammed Earth"

Sarah Molina, Puerto Rico (Culebra, San Juan, Utado): "Bridging the Divide: Architecture, Displacement, and the Struggle for Puerto Rican Identity"

Tori Morris, The Netherlands (Amsterdam): "Water as Urban Ground: Experimental Building Strategies in Amsterdam"

Avaneesh Nataraja, France (Paris) & Italy (Toulouse, Milan): "Urban Voids and Public Transparencies: Public Intersections and Conceptual Translations of 'Place' in Grafton Architects' Institutions"

Joseph Norman, The Netherlands (Amsterdam, Delft, Rotterdam): "Infrastructural Housing: A Study of Dutch OpenBuilding Principles"

Mario Pagano, The United States (New York City) & The Netherlands (Amsterdam, Utrecht): "Care-Embedded Patient-Centered Healthcare Architecture in the Netherlands"

Gaetan Pelletey, "Practices of Architectural Repair"

Trevor Wischerman, Mexico (Mexico City): "Architecture Under Pressure: Incremental Vertical Expansion in Mexico City"