This exhibition of graduate and undergraduate design and research from the 2008-2009 academic year is organized in three parts: The H.I. Feldman Prize Nominees, Advanced Graduate Work, and Student Work.

The H.I. Feldman Prize Nominees display in the North Gallery exhibits a faculty-nominated project from the advanced studios in the Fall and Spring semesters. This prestigious design prize is awarded to the student(s) who demonstrates “the best solution of an architectural problem, taking into consideration, the practical, functional and esthetic requirements of that problem.”

The Advanced Graduate Work section exhibits the projects of graduating M.Arch. I, M.Arch. II, and M.E.D. students. As individuals, each student has prepared a panel of images, text, and three-dimensional representations of their most advanced designs and research at Yale. Each graduating student’s work is the result of study under a School of Architecture design faculty member or distinguished visiting faculty.

The Student Work section of this exhibition features work from first and second year graduate design studios, first year M.E.D. research, selected elective course work, and undergraduate work. Also on display here is the Yale Building Project, a first-year graduate design/build program that has contributed a domestic or public structure to the built environment for over forty years. This year’s Building Project, a two-family residence in New Haven, is currently under construction. The Undergraduate section features senior thesis projects of the Yale College Undergraduate Architecture Major Program with specialized areas of study in Urban Studies, History/Theory, and Design.

As the exhibition title implies, the work displayed represents the latest in architectural design and research by this next generation of architects during these unprecedented times.