After participating schools self-selected their best student work twenty-eight student projects were entered into this year’s architectural student design competition.

Judges
Gaines Hall, FAIA, Kirkigaard Associates and current president of AIA Illinois
James Schneider, Senior Editor, Eco-structure magazine
Stephen Wright, Wright Heerema Architects

About the 2008 Architectural Student Design Competition

Category 1: Student Category (site specific)

1st Place Award
Title:	Charlotte - Mecklenburg Middle School
Entrants:	Erik Illies
Faculty Advisor:	Dr. Michael Brazley
School:	Southern Illinois University - Carbondale
Judges Comments:	EricIllies.mp3 ( 1.6 MB MP3 FILE)
Board 1:	EricIllies-A1-Board1.pdf ( 1.4 MB PDF FILE)
Board 2:	EricIllies-A2-Board2.pdf ( 767.9 KB PDF FILE)
Board 3:	EricIllies-A3-Board3.pdf ( 531.7 KB PDF FILE)
Board 4:	EricIllies-A4-Board4.pdf ( 930.2 KB PDF FILE)

2nd Place Award
Title:	Highland Creek Middle School: Total Precast Middle School
Entrants:	Brett Barbour
Faculty Advisor:	Dr. Michael Brazley
School:	Southern Illinois University - Carbondale
Judges Comments:	BrettBarbour.mp3 ( 2.0 MB MP3 FILE)
Board 1:	Barbour-PCI-Board-A1.pdf ( 10.0 MB PDF FILE)
Board 2:	Barbour-PCI-Board-A2.pdf ( 9.0 MB PDF FILE)
Board 3:	Barbour-PCI-Board-A3.pdf ( 8.8 MB PDF FILE)
Board 4:	Barbour-PCI-Board-A4.pdf ( 8.1 MB PDF FILE)

Category II: Student Category (not site specific)

1st Place Award
Title:	Extrusion: Pulling Precast into Context
Entrants:	Josh Forseth
Faculty Advisor:	Gil Snyder
School:	University of Wisconsin
Judges Comments:	JoshForseth_UWMil.mp3 ( 4.4 MB MP3 FILE)
Board 1:	JoshForseth_board1.pdf ( 10.5 MB PDF FILE)
Board 2:	JoshForseth_board2.pdf ( 16.8 MB PDF FILE)
Board 3:	JoshForseth_board3.pdf ( 11.0 MB PDF FILE)
Board 4:	JoshForseth_board4.pdf ( 4.5 MB PDF FILE)

2nd Place Award
Title:	Chicago Charter School
Entrants:	Thomas Huang
Faculty Advisor:	Thomas Brock
School:	Illinois Institute of Technology
Judges Comments:	ThomasHuang_IIT.mp3 ( 1.7 MB MP3 FILE)
Board:	ThomasHuang_boards.pdf ( 4.8 MB PDF FILE)

3rd Place Award
Title:	Osmosis: Chicago Charter School
Entrants:	Chris Chiu
Faculty Advisor:	Thomas Brock
School:	Illinois Institute of Technology
Judges Comments:	ChrisChiu_IIT.mp3 ( 1.8 MB MP3 FILE)
Board:	ChrisChiu_board_set.pdf ( 3.5 MB PDF FILE)