BES T OF CL A SS: S T UDEN T AWA RDS As part of closing out the 2019–2020 academic year, Taubman College rewarded excellence in the annual Student Show and in work by graduating students. While a sampling of the award-winning work is seen here, the complete gallery is on Taubman College’s Flickr page at taubmancollege.umich.edu/flickr/albums.
BURTON L. KAMPNER MEMORIAL AWARD – FIRST PLACE (THESIS / M.ARCH) Marco Nieto: “Autopsia in
Abstentia.” Faculty: El Hadi Jazairy. The nuclear disaster stylized Chernobyl’s landscape, and multiple realities are fighting and struggling for their voice to be heard by the world. This project’s interventions form a temporally and spatially open system that focuses on reworking and appropriating a set of conditions that affect the local, environmental, and bio-political. These apparatuses will vary in scale and scope in order to better comprehend the magnitude and severity of nuclear collapse by fragmenting the site into understandable bits, composing the framework of an evo‑ lutionary landscape that keeps the sophistication of heavy industry in an effort to understand it, while also providing a sympathetic second life that is often caught between realities.
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SPRING 2020 TAUBMAN COLLEGE
