Visiting professionals award four K-State architecture students for designs of hypothetical Konza winery

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Monday, November 6, 2006

VISITING PROFESSIONALS AWARD FOUR K-STATE ARCHITECTURE STUDENTS FOR DESIGNS OF HYPOTHETICAL KONZA WINERY

MANHATTAN -- Professional architects awarded prizes to four architecture students at Kansas State University's College of Architecture, Planning and Design for the work presented at the recent eighth annual Bowman Design Forum at K-State.

The forum brings internationally acclaimed architects to campus to discuss work by third-year students in the college's architecture department.

One student from each of the four third-year studio sections was selected to present his or her design for a hypothetical 12,000-square-foot winery located beside McDowell Creek Road near the Konza Prairie south of Manhattan. The program called for a tasting and sales room, as well as facilities for the production of four types of wine.

After hearing and viewing the student presentations, the visiting professionals evaluated the designs and awarded $2,500 in prize money. Winners included:

Austin Marsh, junior, Lenexa, Merit Award and $500; Adam Wagoner, junior, McPherson, Merit Award and $500; and Dan Gensch, junior, Wichita, Honor Award and $1,000.

T. J. Siemons, senior, Creighton, Mo., Merit Award and $500.

Third-year architecture studio instructors were: Jerry Carter, instructor of architecture; James Jones, professor of architecture; Vladimir Krstic, professor of architecture; and Torgeir Norheim, associate professor of architecture.

This year’s invited guests were Anne Fougeron, Fougeron Architecture, San Francisco, Calif., and Thomas O. Hacker, Thomas Hacker Architects, Portland, Ore. Both jurors also presented guest lectures following the forum. Other jurors included Lorie Doolittle Bowman and Brent Bowman, principals at Bowman Bowman Novick, Manhattan and Kansas City, Mo.

Guest juror Hacker said he was impressed by the passion for design in the K-State architecture program, an aspect he said he doesn't find at all schools with comparable reputations.

"The passion your students feel was expressed in the concern for the poetry and the realization of materiality of the designs presented at the forum," Hacker said. "The student projects I saw reflected a concern with the human spirit and the physical world of architecture."

The forum is named for Brent Bowman, a 1972 K-State architecture graduate and principal of Bowman Bowman Novick, which sponsors the forum. The firm has locations in Manhattan and Kansas City, Mo. In addition to funding the honoraria and travel expenses of the jurors and providing prize money for the students, Bowman is host to luncheon and dinner gatherings that allow students to interact informally with the jurors.