Gabriel Cuellar was awarded a 2020 Course Development Prize in Architecture, Climate Change, and Society for the course proposal “Exist, Flourish, Evolve” — Territorial Care and the Upper Misi-Ziibi
The School of Architecture congratulates alumnus Gabriel Cuellar (B.Arch ‘08) for receiving a 2020 Course Development Prize in Architecture, Climate Change, and Society presented by The Temple Hoyne Buell Center for the Study of American Architecture at Columbia University and the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA). This new prize is awarded to course proposals that introduce innovation by asking students hard questions equal in weight to the questions being asked of society as it grapples with the intertwined causes and effects of climate change.
Cuellar’s course proposal, “Exist, Flourish, Evolve” — Territorial Care and the Upper Misi-Ziibi, is one of five winning proposals that will be presented at the ACSA 108th Annual Meeting March 12-14, 2020, in San Diego. The course will explore how architecture can uphold and promote the Rights of Nature in the context of the Mississippi headwaters watershed.