| 2023 | |||
| Merve Akdogan, SMarchS Computation Empowering Local Communities Through Analog Data : Resillient Narratives and Alternative Place-making Hatay, Turkey | Hajar alRifai, SMArchS AKPIA Building the Borderland: Placemaking, Politics, and Poetry in Nasib, Syria Nasib, Syria | Ghida Anouti, SMArchS AKPIA Bodies and Fruit: Ruminations on Life, Death, and Haptic Cinema Beirut, Lebanon; Yerevan, Armenia | Maggie Freeman, PhD AKPIA Architecture, Imperialism, and Nomadic Peoples during the British Mandate United Kingdom |
| Mahwish Khalil, SMArchS AKPIA Ravi’s Undulating Ecology Lahore, Pakistan | Dhwani Mehta, SMArchS Urbanism Documenting the Muslim Macchiyara Community of the Gosabara-Mokarsagar Wetlands Tukada Gosa, Gujarat, India | ||
| 2022 | |||
| Latifa Alkhayat MArch Sasha McKinlay, MArch On Coastal Resilience: Marine Agriculture in the Lombok Strait Indonesia | Zachariah DeGiulio, MArch Zanzibar Pizza Hut Britain and Zanzibar | Jehanzeb Shoaib, SMArchS AKPIA Mapping the Historic Palimpsest of Gwadar Pakistan and Oman | Hampton Smith, HTC PHD Insurgent Making: Craftspeople, Racial Capitalism, and the Atlantic World Chicago, Washington DC and, Athens and Savannah, GA. |
| 2021 no awards due to COVID19 | |||
| 2020 all travel cancelled due to COVID19 | |||
| Alexandra Courcoula, AKPIA PhD Understanding Antonis Benakis: The Egypt Years Cairo and Alexandria, Egypt | Reza Daftarian, AKPIA SMArchS Ayeneh-Kari in Azerbaijan Azerbaijan | Katherine Dubbs, HTC SMArchS Jean Prouvé’s Maison Tropicales: Archival Research, Interviews, and ‘Site’ Visits Paris, Nancy, France & London, UK | Amanda Merzaban, AKPIA SMArchS Toward a Feminist Reading of Beirut’s Modern Art History Beirut, Lebanon |
| 2019 | |||
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Rachel Hirsch, SMArchS AKPIA |
Semine Long-Callesen, SMArchS HTC |
Daniella Maamari,SMArchS AKPIA |
Ayesha Shaikh, SMArchS AKPIA |
| 2018 | |||
| Courtney Lesoon, AKPIA PhD Archival Research at Maison Méditerranéenne des Sciences de l’Homme, Médiathèque, Iconothèque et archives Aix-en-Provence, France | |||
| 2017 | |||
| Yusef Audeh, Master of Science in Art, Culture and Technology Sahara Project Redux Treatment Düsseldorf, Germany and Tunisia | Max Budovitch, MCP & Kelly Main, MCP Differential Impact of Refugee Housing Programs on Beneficiaries and Urban Development in Lebanon Lebanon | Sera Tolgay, AKPIA@MIT SMarchS Planning for Scarcity: Community-Based Water Management in the Jordan River Valley Jordan | |
| 2016 | |||
| Suzanne Harris-Brandts, PhD DUSP The role of architecture in transforming the public imaginaries of post-Soviet Baku Azerbaijan | Francis Goyes, MCP Refugees, Incremental Housing, and Shelter in the 21st Century Amman, Jordan | Valeria Vidal Alvarado, MCP Refugees, Incremental Housing, and Shelter in the 21st Century Amman, Jordan | |
| 2015 | |||
| Dina El-Zanfaly, PhD Computation Making to learn and learning to make Turkey | Karthik Rao Cavale, DUSP PhD The Road to Dalit Mobility: Rural Roads and Caste Relations in India India | Alpen Sheth, PhD DUSP Is Disaster Insurance a Form of Planning? Field Visit to Disaster-prone Areas in India India | |
| 2014 | |||
| Jackson Davidow, PhD HTC Contemporary Art Practices and Discourses in Lebanon and Palestine Beirut and the West Bank | Azra Dawood, PhD AKPIA Archival Research New York City & Sleepy Hollow/Tarrytown | Allison James, SMArchS AKPIA User Experience Analysis of Qutb Shahi Tombs Hyderabad, India | Zachary Lamb, PhD DUSP Embanked: Climate Vulnerability and the Paradoxes of Flood Protection in Dhaka Dhaka, Bangladesh |
| 2013 | |||
| Kian Goh, PhD DUSP Place in the Flows: Ecology and Society in Jakarta Jakarta, Indonesia | Michael Kubo, PhD HTC The Incorporation of Architecture: Bureaucratic Modernism and Global Practice after 1945 Kuwait, Abu Dhabi, Dubai, Sharjah | Hala Malik, SMArchS AKPIA Mapping domestic spaces of Lahore in the 1950’s Lahore, Pakistan | Emily Williamson, SMArchS AKPIA Understanding the Zongo Processes of Socio-Spatial Marginalization in Ghana Ghana, West Africa |
| 2012 | |||
| Mariko Davidson, MCP DUSP Promoting Walkable, Bikable Streets in Ahmedabad, India: Developing a Local Street Design Handbook India | Jenine Kotob, SMArchS AKPIA Three Learning Environments in Ramallah West Bank | Sofia Lopez, MCP The Egyptian Labor Movement in the Republican Period and Beyond Egypt | Layla Shaikley, SMArchS AKPIA Housing Displaced Iraqi Squatters: A Pre-Thesis Case Study Jordan |
| 2011 | |||
| Shiben Banerji, HTC PhD The Internationalism of Eclecticism: Walter Burley Griffin’s Lucknow Office India | Stephen Kennedy, MCP City Development Strategies: Making Urban Investment Work Indonesia | Hanna Rutkouskaya, SMArchS AKPIA Bukhara: The Case of Urban Amnesia Uzbekistan | Alice Shay, MCP City Development Strategies: Making Urban Investment Work Design-based Planning Internship in Indonesia Indonesia |
| 2010 | |||
| Maryam Eskandari, SMArchS AKPIA Social and religious spaces of women with in the Islamic Centers and Mosques in North America. Michigan, DC, California | Stephen Form, MArch Strategies for the Post Squatter City Turkey | Huma Gupta, MCP Transnational Spheres of Suffering: The Role of AWRD in Transforming Syrian State Attitudes towards Trafficked Women. Syria | S. Faisal Hassan, PhD HTC Ottomans on the Aventine: Piranesi’s Church of Santa Maria del Priorato. Malta (Travel not completed) |
| 2009 | |||
| Bernadette Baird-Zars, MCP Developing Heritage: Constructed Visions in the Decision-Making Process of Property Regulation in Aleppo Syria | Charles Curran, MArch Retrofit + Shrink-wrap Dubai // An Urban Rescovery Plan UAE | Azra Dawood, SMArchS AKPIA Archaeological Ambassadors-at-large Chicago, New York | Igor Demchenko, HTC PhD Ahmad Yasawi Mausoleum in Russian Empire: 1864-1917 Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan |
| Laura Lee Schmidt, SMArchS AKPIA ln lhe Absence of Wonder: The Use of Medieval lslamic Toys Italy, Qatar | |||
| 2008 | |||
| Zehra Ali, School of Engineering, Building Technology Study of Innovations in Building Energy Efficiency in Northern Pakistan Pakistan | Zameer Basrai, SMArchS AKPIA A Study in Architectural Identity of Ismaili Philanthropic Institutions in Contemporary Bombay India | Nancy Demerdash, SMArchS AKPIA Roads of Empire Past & Present: Collective Memory & Modern Maghrib Identities in the Urban Form and Space of French Colonial Villes Nouvelles Morocco | Christian Hedrick, PhD AKPIA German-Austrian Influences in 19th Century Cairo Cairo |
| Anneka Lenssen Fateh Moudarres and the Performance of a Post-Revolutionary Art in Syria, 1963-1980 Presentation: Pioneers and Primitives: Painting from Syria, 1960-1970 Syria | Alexa Rosenberg, MCP Managing Evolution in a Prominent African NGO: Lessons from Enda Tiers Monde in Dakar, Senegal From Protest to Progress: Building Civic and Institutional Capacity to Address Informality in Dakar, Senegal Senegal | Simon Schleicher, MArch III Adaptive Toldo Systems – Revitalization of an Ancient Craft City above the City, Symbiotic Rooftop Communities in Old Cairo Cairo, Stuttgart | Deniz Turker, SMArchS AKPIA Ottoman Language Program Turkey |
| 2007 | |||
| Anneka Lenssen, PhD AKPIA Contemporay Arab Cultural Practices Damascus, Syria | Nancy Odeh, DUSP PhD Towards Improved Partnershipts in the Water Sector in the Middle East: A Case Study of the Water Sector in Jordan Amman, Jordan (Travel not completed | ||
| 2006 | |||
| Razan Francis, PhD AKPIA Pre-Dissertation Survey in al-Andalus Spain | Omar Rabie, SMArchS AKPIA Auroville Rammed Earth Workshop: The Potential of Compressed Earth Brick South India | Sadia Shirazi, MArch Ritual and Space in Lahore’s Inner City Pakistan | |
| 2005 | |||
| Jigar Bhatt, MCP Preservation of Threatened Islamic Architecture on the Island of Mozambique Mozambique | Daniel Berry, MCP Istanbul Now: A Tactical Survey of Transitional Urbanism Turkey (Travel not completed) | Asra Aksamija, PhD AKPIA Between Balkanization and Synthesis: Rethinking Boundaries of Religious Space in Bosnia and Herzegovina Various countries in the Balkans | Pamela Karimi, PhD AKPIA Americanizing Iran: The Nature and Consequences of America’s 1950’s Mission in Iran for the Improvement and Rationalization of Iranian’s Domestic Life New York & Washington DC |
| 2004 | |||
| Joe Dahmen, MArch Moorish Bridges in Southern Spain Spain | Amanda Ikert, SMArchS/MCP AKPIA Cultural Ramifications of Nationalism Forced through Transmigration Indonesia | Pamela Karimi, PhD AKPIA Multiple Representations of the Female Body in Contemporary Iranian Art, Cinema and PressWashington, New York | Lisa Mosier, SMArchS AKPIA Current Attitudes Towards Preservation and Representation of Islamic Built Heritage Spain |
| Afiya Ayo Whisby, BArch Slave Fortress Architecture, Perpetuations of the Slave Trade and Relevance to the Current American Prison Atlanta & Ghana | |||
| 2003 | |||
| Ozgur Basak Alkan, MArch/MCP Assesment of the Impact of Summer Olympics in the Host City. Research contributes to her thesis Rethinking the Olympics in Istanbul Athens & Atlanta | Danny Cherian, MCP Urban Water Systems and Medieval Islamic Urban Planning Istanbul, Damascus & Samarkand | Lauren Kroiz, HTC PhD Opa-locka’s architecture and its Arabia Nights Festival Miami | Melanie Michailides, PhD AKPIA Survey of Pre-Mongol Islamic Architecture Iran |
| 2002 | |||
| Leonardo Diaz-Borioli, SMArchS California’s Moorish Heritage Goes East Spain, California and Mexico | Sarah Rogers, HTC PhD New Visions: Artistic Production and the First Intifada Jordan & Lebanon | William Doss Suter, SMArchS The Cairo Artery, Transport, Housing, Hotel and a Bridge Over the Nile Egypt (Travel not completed) | Lieza Vincent, SMArchS/MCP AKPIA Rehabilitation in the Old City of Aleppo Lebanon & Syria |
| 2001 | |||
| Glaire Anderson, PhD AKPIA Urban Development & Water Infrastructure in Umayyad Cordoba Spain | Chala Hadimi, SMArchS AKPIA Tomb of Ayatollah Khomeini, Tehran Mesjid-e Jame, Yazd Iran | Michele Lamprakos, PhD AKPIA Merchant Spaces in the late Medieval Mediterranean: The Venetians in Aleppo Syria | Amina S. Razvi, SMArchS Women and Children’s Shelter in Mumbai, India: Empowerment Through Local Industry India |
| 2000 | |||
| Turkey Workshop | Yasmine Abbas, SMArchS AKPIA Mostar, Bosnia | Marianne de Klerk, SMArchS/MCP Historicizing the Landscape: Recovering the Aesthetics of the Alhambra Spain | Bianca Maria Nardella, SMArchS AKPIA Mostar, Bosnia |
| Panayiota Pyla, PhD AKPIA Environmental concepts in the works of C.A. Doxiadis and Hasan Fathy Syria and Greece | Sunitha Raju, SMArchS AKPIA | ||
| 1999 | 1998 | 1996 | 1995 Summer |
| Cairo Excursion | Summer 1998 Italy, Morocco & Pakistan | June Attilio Petruccioli conducted a one month fieldwork project with MIT students in the walled towns of Como, Italy and Essaouira, Morocco, in preparation for a studio on urban situations in historic contexts in fall, 1996. | Summer Attilio Petruccioli brought a group of MIT students to Uzbekistan for a one month workshop to study the quarter of Gur Emir at Samarkand and the suk of Bukhara. The workshop became a studio problem in fall, 1995. |
| 1995 March | 1994 | 1993 | 1989 |
| Attilio Petruccioli and Goethert Reinhard brought students to Essaouira, Morocco for the Workshop, “Mapping Cities Through Typologies- A Workshop on Growing Small Cities.” The workshop focussed on the medina and the problem of the restoration and revitalization of old urban fabric. | Adnan Zillur Morshed, SMArchS AKPIA | Christine Pein, MArch Pakistan Workshop | Tarek Kazzaz, SMArchS AKPIA |