Knowlton School of Architecture

Student Work / City and Regional Planning / Autumn 2025 & Spring 2026

— Houston Zoning (or lack thereof)
This project examines the absence of zoning laws in Houston, Texas, the only major U.S. city without a traditional zoning code.
Anna Defendiefer + Sophia Gipson + Gabriella Monsignori
City & Regional Planning — Spatial Models & Project Evaluation
Instructor: Manuel Santana Palacios, Ph.D.
https://knowlton.osu.edu/news/2026/03/houston-zoning-or-lack-thereof?utm_campaign=eng_marketing-activity_fy26&utm_content=1781813341&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook

— Roadmap to Inclusive Living
The All In Dublin project represents an emerging model of inclusive, community-oriented housing rooted in the concept of intentional neighboring.
Tiba Alagah + Brady Foy + Riley Stanek + Maria Johnson + Ella Hancock + Isabella Throm + Ava Meredith + Leshan Yu + Alexia Ge**er + Danielle Crittenden + Jake Kerslake + Yangli Wei
CRPLAN 4910S — Realizing the Plan
Instructor: Gala Korniyenko
https://knowlton.osu.edu/news/2026/02/roadmap-inclusive-living?utm_campaign=eng_marketing-activity_fy26&utm_content=1781813341&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook

And Alagah, Hancock, Crittenden, and Korniyenko presented the project at the Multiple Perspectives on Access, Inclusion & Disability Conference hosted by The Ohio State University.
https://knowlton.osu.edu/news/2026/02/knowlton-planning-students-present-studio-project-access-inclusion-and-disability-conference?utm_campaign=eng_marketing-activity_fy26&utm_content=1781813341&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook

— Master of City and Regional Planning student Sean Bartlett has published “‘We’re a Close Community … We Do Check on Each Other’: A Mixed Methods Case Study on Extreme Weather Preparedness Among Older Adults in Subsidized Housing,” in the Journal of Gerontological Social Work.
https://knowlton.osu.edu/news/2026/04/sean-bartlett-publishes-research-extreme-weather-preparedness-among-older-adults?utm_campaign=eng_marketing-activity_fy26&utm_content=1781813341&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook

— Master of City and Regional Planning student Abdulrazzak Felemban received the National Award for Humanizing Cities from the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia as part of a project undertaken as an architecture student at Umm Al-Qura University.
https://knowlton.osu.edu/news/2026/01/abdulrazzak-e.-felemban-wins-national-award-humanizing-cities?utm_campaign=eng_marketing-activity_fy26&utm_content=1781813341&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook

Student Experiences / Spring 2026

It was a busy semester at Knowlton outside of studio and the classroom:

— The annual Fashion Schau returned to Knowlton Hall with a fresh take on the event and a set of elemental designs made from unconventional materials — and students raised more than $400 for Dress for Success — Columbus. > https://www.instagram.com/p/DWzYlFZlCot

— Undergraduate students Sam Clemente, Claire Baltimore, and Sofia DiNovo organized LABAsh 2026, the Knowlton Conservation Corps curated the 1000 Trees exhibition, and the Knowlton Society organized Ramp Up 2026, fillling Knowlton Hall with student work. > https://www.instagram.com/p/DV9b0zSAcoA

— The Knowlton Society, MSA, NAMLA, NOMAS, and ASMA hosted Knowlton Iftar, giving students a chance to break their fasts with each other during the month of Ramadan. > https://www.instagram.com/p/DVjogHplHw8

— More than 60 employers and hundreds of students participated in this year’s Knowlton School Career Fair. > https://www.instagram.com/p/DUtK8IAgCht

Congratulations to FORMA 👏 👏 👏

The firm founded by Knowlton alumna Miroslava Brooks (BSArch ’08) and Daniel Markiewicz has been named to Architectural Record’s 2026 Design Vanguard—the annual showcase elevating emerging talent from around the globe.

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At a time when formalism might be considered a dirty word in architecture, Miroslava Brooks and Daniel Markiewicz contumaciously named their practice Forma. “This work is about rectangles,” says Markiewicz, “and about exploring their spatial and material efficiencies.” Despite their characterization of the work as hard-nosed formal exploration, the projects are often colorful, tactile, and, at times, exuberant. “There’s a balance between rigor, structure, and a kind of playfulness or permissiveness,” admits Brooks. In other words, the architects aren’t squares—they just like to play with them.

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Student Work / Architecture / Autumn 2025

1-3. Half Double Housing
This half-scale housing project explores strategies of unification between differing scales through the creation of shared, transitional zones mediated by filtration.
Camille Zitney
Architecture UG3 Studio
Instructor: Beth Blostein

4-5. Shinohara x Tower
Drawing upon Shinohara's "Repeating Crevice" house, this proposal for the adaptive reuse of Continental Tower multiplies the conventional egress stair to fill a vertical fissure space.
Michael Wade + Johnny Ceraolo
Architecture G3 Studio
Instructor: Georg Rafailidis

6-8. Future Scenario, 4632 Main Ave., Ashtabula
This building experiences a narrative future that progresses 50 years, starting as an abandoned theater, experiencing devastation, regrowth, and soon becoming a community-oriented space.
Sammy Kocher + Ashley Patel
Architecture UG4 Honors Studio
Instructor: Stephanie Davidson

9-10. Ribbon Furnace
A modern replica of the once-existing Buckhorn Iron Furnace in Lawrence County, Ohio, this museum reveals the hidden history of freedom seekers who traveled through and worked in this furnace.
Sammi Shasky
Architecture G3 Studio
Instructor: Karen Lewis

The The Center for Architecture and Design ’s Camp Architecture and Design have returned to Knowlton Hall!

After a week of working with visiting practitioners and designing for various scales, the student designers presented their work today to parents and caregivers.

“The Water Grant University: How the Civil War, Western Water Rights, and Tribal Water Security Are Foundational to the US Public Education System”

Assistant Professor of Landscape Architecture John Davis and Associate Professor in CEGE at Ohio State’s Jim Stagge have been awarded a Sustainability Research Seed Grant for their proposal, “The Water Grant University: How the Civil War, Western Water Rights, and Tribal Water Security Are Foundational to the US Public Education System.”

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The Morrill Act (1862) funded land-grant universities through the sale of western lands taken from Indigenous peoples, likely conferring senior water rights. Using newly available water rights databases, this project will quantify those transfers and assess their lasting impacts, informing sustainable and equitable water governance amid growing western water scarcity.

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Sustainability Research Seed Grant Program funds interdisciplinary research teams exploring topics in one or more of the Ohio State Sustainability Institute’s research priority areas.

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Machines in the Landscape—This year’s Gui Competition partnered with and asked students to examine the “middle landscape”—neither urban nor rural—and the presence of the highly technical artifacts that dot the landscape in those spaces.

Students were asked how architecture can enhance these places and their communities.

First-place awardee Megan Pawlowski’s project addresses the byproducts of large-scale industrial processes. Pawlowski identified waste slurries where “oils, plastics, and sweat mix with the soil runoff and heavy metals,” and her project captures that waste and redirects it to productive reuse.

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The Knowlton School is pleased to announce the inaugural cohort of the Office Associateship Internship Program.

Five students from the Master of Architecture program were selected from qualified candidates and will hold paid internships with participating Office Associateship firms from summer 2026 through spring 2027.

— Sydney Bezich, The Collaborative + Acock
— Gabriel Borisa, Wellogy
— Antoine Gray, DLR Group
— Zofia Jagerova, DesignGroup
— Alonzo Waugh, AECOM

The program grew out of the Office Associateship Program, with the goal of providing expanded professional experience at nationally recognized design firms for exceptional graduate students in their final year in addition to the financial support previously provided by the program.

Rising G3 students complete an application during the autumn term of their G2 year, and participating firms review applicants and conduct interviews before selecting students.

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https://knowlton.osu.edu/news/2026/05/inaugural-office-associateship-program-intern-cohort-announced?utm_campaign=eng_marketing-activity_fy26&utm_content=1779394021&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook

Congratulations to Assistant Professor of Architecture Iman Ansari who received the Charles E. MacQuigg Award for Outstanding Teaching as part of the Spring 2026 College of Engineering Faculty Awards Ceremony.

Ansari was recognized for “blending humor, rigor and, innovation, elevating the architecture curriculum while centering student voices, offering meaningful insight into the future of the field, and providing support beyond the classroom.”

The annual award is presented in recognition of faculty members’ outstanding teaching ability, willingness to help students, and interest in improving the high reputation of The Ohio State University College of Engineering.

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The Knowlton School is pleased to announce the recipients of the 2026 Architecture Research Travel Awards.

Seventeen Knowlton students were awarded Architecture Research Travel Awards to conduct research in locations like Italy, China, Singapore, Greece, Sweden, Denmark, Mexico, the Balkans, and Brazil.

The ARTA program was established with generous support from the Columbus Foundation to encourage independent travel and research by students from all Knowlton degree programs.

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-- Nick Antonelli + Korbin Steinbrunner, BSLA
"China + South Korea + Japan"

-- Noah DeRochie, MCRP
"Social Ownership to Market Housing: The Evolution and Future of Public Housing in the Central Balkans"

-- Maria Gammoh, MArch
"Three Regions, One Tradition: Understanding Sacred Architecture Across Greece"

-- Maxly Gasca, MCRP
"Comparing the Migrant Experience through Plazas in Ciudad de Mexico"

-- Adam Goldberg, MLA
"Narrative Ethnography as Landscape Design: Advancing Direct Experience Through Writing and Walking"

-- Danielle Holop, BSLA
"United Kingdom"

-- Chloe Lu, BSArch
"Cultural Districts and Social Sustainability in Singapore"

-- Stephanie McCauley, BSCRP
"Urban Form and Governance: Organic Growth and Intentional Design Frameworks in Portugal and Comparative European Cities"

-- Nadia Ndematebem, BSLA
"Sacred Before Scaled: The Intersectionality of Capitalism and Culture in Sacred Landscapes "

-- Sophia Novo, BSLA
"Landscapes of Narration: A Study of Colonialism, Migration, and Diaspora’s Long-standing Impact on Brazilian Design and Life Today"

-- Aniyah Rosales + Bemnet Shewaye, BSArch
"Controlled vs Uncontrolled"

-- Vera Stone, MCRP
"Fruterías: Fruit, People, and Design in Urban Life"

-- Haley Trolio, BSLA
"Ecology, Beauty, and Resilience in Scandinavian Landscape Practices"

-- Michael Wade, MArch
"Museums that Move Us"

-- Christopher Willauer, MLA
"Routes of Stone and Passage: Geodiversity, Movement, and Sacred Infrastructure in the Simbruini Mountains"

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