Past Fellowship Award Recipients

2026

  • Small-scale community-based approaches can preserve neighborhoods, support local ownership and enable equitable density. The fellowship project aims to amplify these approaches through non-profit collaboration through the creation of a toolkit that links small women-led firms with nonprofits to access affordable housing work. In addition, a policy white paper will be produced. Together, these elements in this fellowship will advance anti-displacement strategies to hold down neighborhood stability.

  • The proposal advances a creative, community-led approach to reconnect residents with native plants and pollinators through accessible education, increased access to green space and stewardship. The “BloomBox” toolkit is a modular pollinator planter prototype that will be installed in Glassell Park in a public installation, and supported with interpretive resources for broader adoption. This project aims for urban environmental restoration and public engagement.

2025

  • Practice Architecture Mid-Career Fellowship
    “Los Angeles Learning Resilient Design Strategies From Japan”
    Co-Owner, PadLab
    Associate Professor, Spatial Experience Design, Art Center College of Design

    Los Angeles can learn community-centric, resilient post-disaster renewal from Japanese case studies. This proposal aims to conduct interviews and visit sites in Japan in order to share these stories of resilience with the Los Angeles communities. How might Los Angeles learn resilient design strategies from Japan’s post-disaster community-engage design projects? A variety of forums in Los Angeles will disseminate these narratives and findings.

  • KFA Architecture Mid-Career Fellowship
    “Re-Contextualizing Wildfires Through Stories”
    Landscape and Ecological Designer, SCAPE Landscape Architecture DPC

    Truly listening (in an unbiased, empathetic and patient way) to stories. This proposal aims to document stories coming out from the wildfires in Southern California. A new collective narrative from interviews and personal stories, documented and presented through analysis and findings, will create a new myth that will forge a different way forward.

2024

  • 2024 Mid-Career Fellowship Winner
    “Perfection/Redaction: A study in architectural photography and documentation through the ‘female gaze’”
    Principal, EEK Studio
    Adjunct Associate Professor, USC School of Architecture

    An inquiry into the “female gaze” in architectural photography to test a value shift from the perfection of the built environment to the perception. This requires re-imagining space through a feminist lens, a shift away from perfectly curated spaces and images allowing for a questions of established norms of beauty, functionality, and hierarchy in the built environment.

  • 2024 Mid-Career Fellowship Winner
    “Exploring Identity, Culture, and Diasporic Experiences: A Storytelling Project on Koreatown, Los Angeles”
    Second-generation Korean American designer, Los Angeles
    Principal, Studio in()ir

    Localizing the research in Koreatown, Los Angeles, this project proposed to understand the significance of ethnic enclaves and their impact on the multifacted identities of diasporic communities. Through interviews with locals and business owners as well as local organizations, this project aims to collect and interpret stories with diverse interpretations of “Americaness” and “otherness”.Koreatown is not just populated by an ethnically Korean population and as such this research will invite all members of various ethnic backgrounds to converse on identity and placemaking.

2023

  • 2023 Mid-Career Fellowship Winner
    “Mapping Resistance: The Fight for Cultural Preservation in Highland Park”
    Architectural Designer, Researcher, Educator
    Employed at Practice Architecture
    Educator at Woodbury University School of Architecture

    An investigation into the impact of gentrification on the cultural heritage of Highland Park and the role that architecture, urban design and planning can play in preserving and promoting cultural diversity and social justice in the neighborhood. The project will create a dialogue with the community and allow histories and narratives to come forward, be shared, celebrated and documented through a series of community workshops and events.

2022

  • 2022 Mid-Career Fellowship Winner
    “The Use of 3D Printing in Housing and Micro-Housing”
    Architect, Chet Architecture
    Founder, Studio Serpentine
    studio-serpentine.com

2021

  • 2021 Mid-Career Fellowship Winner
    “Rude Forms Among Us”
    Founding Co-Principal of First Office
    Design Faculty, Southern California Institute of Architecture

2020

  • 2020 Mid-Career Fellowship
    “Los Angeles by Color”
    Multimedia Designer and Art Director
    ashleymargo.com

2019

  • 2019 Mid-Career Fellowship
    Research on “The Unstable Image”
    Architects
    bairballiet.com

2018

  • 2018 Mid-Career Fellowship
    ”Connecting High School Environments to Mental Health and Wellbeing”Landscape Architect
    www.clairelatane.com

2017

2016

  • 2016 Mid-Career Fellowship
    ”1200 Play Yards: A Patchwork of Potential”
    Architects