Please congratulate the student team of Justin Beadle and Roberto Jamie Deseda, winners of this year’s Laskey Award, worth $5,000. Their project proposal, “Interacting in the Gap,” focuses on making the Sam Fox School courtyard a more engaging public space.
 
The Laskey Award honors Professor Emeritus Leslie Laskey and his singular approach to design education during his thirty-five year tenure at Washington University. It is presented by Studio L in collaboration with the College of Architecture and Graduate School of Architecture & Urban Design on an annual basis. The award is a particular, alternative scholarship that supports a sharable, public, and very alive endeavor. Visit the Studio L website for more information.
 
The following student teams received honorable mention for this year’s Laskey Award:
 
- Zachary Rousoum, Jeffrey Sullivan, and Jonathan Stitelman. Project: Cyprus: Contested Memory, Contested Space
- Akshita Sivakumar. Project: ZIP CODE BA000
- Nathaniel Elberfeld and Alexandra Waller. Project: Tunneling Effects