2006 recipients

Thomas de Monchaux

The Writing Award, which was open to writers, critics, scholars, historians, journalists and designers in the amount of $5,000, was awarded to Thomas de Monchaux for his three submissions:

• “Constructing the Melnikov House” (56 KB)

• “Solving for X: Calculating Idealism Among Young Architects” (60 KB)

• “Here Come The Jets!: Notes on a Stadium.” (100 KB)

Thomas is a writer and designer who has written for Architectural Record, I.D. Magazine and The New York Times, along with journals such as 32BNY and N+1. He majored in art history and history at Brown University, and later studied architecture at Princeton. He lives and works in New York and is currently assisting Ada Tolla and Giuseppe Lignano of the firm LOT-EK at Columbia University's “Housing Architecture Studio.”

Katherine Feo

The Education Award, which was open to undergraduate or graduate students whose use of writing, in the interest of making visual work or scholarship or cultural observation, demonstrates extraordinary originality and promise in the amount of $1,000, was awarded to Katherine Feo for her submission:

• “In Defense of Stupidity” (88 KB)

Katherine recently completed her MA in design history at the Royal College of Art in London. She received her BA in painting and social welfare from the University of California at Berkeley in 2002. Currently, she is working as a research assistant at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, and is a visiting lecturer in the department of illustration at the University of Westminster.