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Laskey Charrette
The Laskey Charrette honors the late professor emeritus Leslie J. Laskey and his singular approach to design education during his 35-year tenure at Washington University. For this intensive, weekend-long workshop, second-year architecture students work in teams to brainstorm ideas for a given design challenge. Their final designs are exhibited and reviewed, with a jury of faculty awarding prizes. The charrette is presented annually by Studio L in collaboration with the College of Architecture and Graduate School of Architecture & Urban Design.
For more information about Studio L and the Laskey Charrette, email studiolaskey@gmail.com.
2022 Charrette
Yasmin Vobis (RA, NCARB), co-principal of Ultramoderne and an assistant professor of architecture at Harvard Graduate School of Design, served as the moderator of the 2022 Laskey Charrette, which took place February 4-6.
The team of Dear Liu, Jack Zhang, and Kaiwen Wang took first place in this year’s charrette. Check out this news announcement for the full list of winning teams, as well as photos from this year’s charrette. You can also view a recording of Vobis’ public lecture, introducing this year’s design brief, A HAT IS A HOUSE, which called upon the students to work in teams to “expand the definition of a hat to blur the line that differentiates the personal from the collective,” culminating in the creation of a hat that could be worn by one or multiple people.
Moderator: Aki Ishida
Honorable Mention: Folds & Gaps—Connor Merritt, Annika Pan, and Yuwei Yang
Honorable Mention: Divergence—Malik Gaye, Christa Hua, Allen Liang, and Caleb Ullendorff
Honorable Mention: Circuit—Caroline Denk, Xiaowen Ma, and Emily Rupright
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Moderator: Jerry Kugler
Honorable Mention: Stalaglite—Tony Chen, Malika Johnson, Brittany Heller, Zach Adams
Honorable Mention: The Light Box—Brooke Bulmash, Yihan Huang, Sam Rho, Basil Frost
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Moderator: Ian Monroe (BFA95)
Honorable Mention: Team No. 2—Dylan Chan, Qian Huang, Philipp Kentner, Thomas Spalter
Honorable Mention: Team No. 8—Yutong Ma, Graham McAllister, Taili Zhuang
Moderator: Elizabeth O'Donnell, AIA
Team B—Jenna Schnitzler, Marcellus Johnson, Katie Engelmeyer, and Tiffany Zheng
Team C—Maddie Farrer, Corrina Thompson, Eleanor Knowles, and Mesha Bisarya
Moderator: Erik M. Hemingway
Honorable Mention: Team of Kristen Patino, Yulin Peng, and Rebecca Resnic
Honorable Mention: Team of Jenny Li, Mingxi Li, and Yin Li
Moderators: Laura and Rick Brown (MFA75)
Honorable Mention (book award): Team of Ciara Hackman, James McClanahan, and Lucas Rasmussen
Honorable Mention (book award): Team of Jack Lynch and Joshua Stevens
Moderator: Ted Krueger
Honorable Mention: Team of Elizabeth Brown, Carley Ream, and Min Suk Yang Honorable Mention: Team of Ailing Zhang and Jie Fu
Moderator: Mehrdad Hadighi
Book Award: Two teams, featuring Alexandra Chiu (art), Rebecca Curtis (architecture), Grace Davis (architecture), Shira Grosman (architecture), Isaac Howell (art), Patricia Kilbride (art), Wonjin Son (art), and Maya Theus (art)
Moderator: Kyna Leski
Book award: Team of Grant McCracken (Architecture), Nicole Yen (Art), Weiqian Liu (Architecture), and Martin Lockman (Architecture) for “Principa Mathematica”
Honorable Mention: Team of Elaine Stokes (Architecture), Adam Strobel (Architecture), and Elizabeth Korb (Art) for “Tangerine Peel”
Honorable Mention: Team of Allison Balogh (Architecture), Quamesha Brown (Art/Architecture), Jordan Rapp (Architecture), Elliot Petterson (Architecture), and Esther Hamburger (Art) for “Log”
Honorable Mention: Team of Stephanie Silva (Architecture), Sam Stapleton (Architecture), Claudia Frolova (Art), and Madeleine Docherty (Art) for “Rainbow Reproduction”
Fitzgibbon Charrette
2022 Charrette
Dwayne Oyler and Jenny Wu, founders of the experimental architecture and design firm Oyler Wu Collaborative, served as the moderators for the 2022 Fitzgibbon Charrette, delivering an online kickoff lecture on February 25.
This year’s prompt focused on creating methods of assembly that require an intense investigation of architectural parts, and that allow for a transference between types and scales. Each team of students created “a puzzling architectural assembly” using a combination of architectural and industrial parts. The “parts” were derived from two to three previous architectural studio projects, as well as an assigned tool model.