Studio Luz Architects

The Awesome Foundation for Arts

and Sciences Inaugural Grant .........................................................

Grant Awarded for ‘The Big Hammock’ Public Art Installation, Boston, MA

Professional Development Grant .........................................................

Grant Awarded for forthcoming book ‘Social Exchange: Reforming Architecture, Their Buildings’ from the Rhode Island School of Design

LEF Foundation Grant .........................................................

Grant Awarded to Young Architects Boston Group, Founding Firm, for ‘Parti Wall, Hanging Green’ Public Art Installation and Exhibition, Boston, MA www.yaboston.org

Progressive Architeture Award .........................................................

54th Progressive Architecture Award Citation for Campus D’Espoir (Campus of Hope), Bon Repos, Haiti.  ‘Architect’ January Issue, Hanley Wood Business Media, Washington DC. p.80-81

IESNA Award .........................................................

The Illuminating Engineering Society of North America (IESNA) Illumination Design Award for Diva Lounge, New England

Best of the New .........................................................

Best of the New, Diva Lounge, The Boston Globe Magazine, p.31, January 28, Globe Newspaper Co. Boston, MA USA

On Making .........................................................

Distinguished Guest Speakers, PAM: Datum KL International Design Convention, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Citation for Diva Lounge .........................................................

Interior Architecture Award, Boston Society of Architects, Boston, MA

Young Architect’s Prize .........................................................

Nominated for National AIA Young Architect’s Prize, Boston Society of Architects

Best Designed Hospitality .........................................................

Best Designed Hospitality, Diva Lounge, DDI Magazine, VNU Business Publications, USA, Inc.

ICA Artist Prize Nomination .........................................................

Nominated for the 2006 ICA Artist Prize, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA

Distinguished Visiting Critic .........................................................

Boston Architectural Center Distinguished Visiting Critic Spring 2006

Vulnerable Architecture Exhibition .........................................................

MIT Council for the Arts Grant:  Awarded for the Vulnerable Architecture Exhibition, Anderson Gallery, Des Moines, Iowa

Sponsorship Lowes Improving Home

Improvement .........................................................

Sponsorship: Lowe’s Improving Home Improvement, Weymouth, MA, MIT Public Service Center, Cambridge, MA and Hope for the Children of Haiti, Woburn, MA for the ‘Vulnerable Architecture Exhibition’, Anderson Gallery, Des Moines, Iowa

Young Architects Forum Prize .........................................................

Young Architect’s Forum Prize, The Architectural League of New York. Theme "If…Then" exhibition May 6-June 17, 2004. The Urban Center, NYC.

Wave of the Future Award

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Wave of the Future Award, Hospitality Design Magazine, VNU Business Publications, USA, Inc.

Graham Foundation for Advanced

Studies in the Fine Arts Grant .........................................................

Awarded for forthcoming publication: ‘Social xChange: architecture from theory to action’

Rhode Island Council for the

Humanities Grant .........................................................

Awarded for the Social xChange Symposium.

Grant Awarded for the Social

xChange Symposium .........................................................

Grant Awarded for the Social xChange Symposium from the Rhode Island School of Design: Office  of the President, Division of Architecture and Design, Department of Architecture

National Endowment for the Arts

Architecture for Social Justice .........................................................

Award sponsored by Adaptive Environment for academic research in architectural design and for addressing issues of social justice.

Academic Enrichment Fund Rhode Island

School of Design .........................................................

Awarded for the support of technological research and fabrication techniques.