PennDesign graduate architecture student Peng Wang (MArch'16) has received a $25,000 Paul Katz/KPF Fellowship to travel to Tokyo this summer to study the city's transit hubs.
"A transit hub and its precinct is a complex and compact living system involving people, machines and infrastructures," explains Peng, who has a Master of Engineering (MEng) degree from Tongji University and worked at UNS Studio in Amsterdam from 2014 - 2015. "My research aims at inspiring designers and enhancing our efficiency in handling large-scale projects."
The award was established to honor the life and work of former KPF Principal Paul Katz (1957-2014).
"Paul Katz was an amazing advocate for architects and architecture, literally around the globe," said PennDesign Dean Marilyn Jordan Taylor. "The prize that honors him is very fitting precisely because it supports top international students in enhancing their in-depth engagement with the architecture and urbanism of cultures beyond their personal experiences."
Two $25,000 awards are given each year to enable international students to travel and study issues of global urbanism upon graduation from a Master's of architecture program. The other winner this year was Shayarida Silva from the Yale School of Architecture. Students from the Princeton University School of Architecture, the Harvard Graduate School of Design, and Columbia University GSAPP earned honorable mentions. Candidates were nominated by the deans of five leading graduate architecture programs with which Katz had a meaningful involvement.
The jury included Raymond Chow (Hong Kong Land), Whitney Duan (Kaifeng Foundation), and Ian Hawksworth (Capital and Counties), along with KPF Architects David Malott, Forth Bagley, and James von Klemperer.
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