Vectorworks Design Scholarship Winners

Pictured above is Leslie Majer's “Badehaus Breitstrom,” which won the 2020 Richard Diehl Award, the grand prize for the Vectorworks Design Scholarship that is named for the founder of Vectorworks. Majer, now in graduate studies at ETH Zürich, submitted her thesis project from Bauhaus Universität Weimar, the design for a bathhouse on the Gera in Erfurt. 

Rubina Siddiqui from Vectorworks called the project "a true gem," highlighting the graphics achieved by using Vectorworks for drawings and Maxon's Cinema 4D for renderings, but also commending how Majer created space "through the juxtaposition of simple and heavy elements to create something so massive and intricate."

The Diehl Award and other scholarship winners were selected from more than 1,800 submissions. Below is the full list of winners, followed by illustrations of the seven winners in the architecture category. Visit the Vectorworks Scholarship website for more images of the winning designs and glimpses of the runners up.

Architecture Winners:

• “Pliable Display-Ground,” by Han Zhu, Xinyu Chen, and Wanting Zhou, Rice University
• “Swinburne Station!,” by Shengye Yu, Swinburne University of Technology
• “The Invisible Castle,” by Henri Kopra, University of Nottingham
• “Hideout, Self-sufficient Huts in Cambodia,” by Justyna Dmytryk, Wrocław University of Science and Technology
• “Pretty Much Best Neighbors,” by Sina Dreßler, Burg Giebichenstein University of Art and Design
• “Badehaus Breitstrom,” Leslie Rahel Majer, ETH; Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zürich
• “Forest Revolution,” by Wang Jiawen, Tama Art University

Landscape Architecture Winners:

• “Cooling UHI via Parametric Design in Landscape Architecture,” by Chien-Yu Lin, State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry
• “Industrial Complex of an International Company Dedicated to Manufacturing Electronic Devices,” by Solange Lantigua and Lindi Patricia Oviedo Aguilar, Autonomous University of Santo Domingo
• “Eden Project Productive Garden,” by Joss Paine, Cornwall College, University of Plymouth
• “The Project of Podwawelski Park in Krakow,” by Łukasz Byś, Tadeusz Kościuszko University of Technology
• “Dandelion - Zbrojovka Reloaded,” by Carina Brandl and Amelie Kessler, Technical University of Munich
• “Fjorde in der Berliner Mitte - Bepflanzungskonzept Innenhöfe Charlie Living,” by Caroline Kemkes, Frauke Weerts, and Christian Lepper, Osnabrück University of Applied Sciences
• “Le Bain Sauvage,” by Elisa Fomasi, University of Applied Sciences Rapperswil

Interior Design Winners:

• “Projekt Adaptacji Wnętrza Stodoły na Cele Mieszkalne,” by Martyna Jaworska, Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw
• “Unkabut.bar,” by Lukas Riedl, Burg Giebichenstein University of Art and Design
• “In Situ - Ein Marktplatz mit Geschichte,” by Michelle Mosiman and Sara Vergallo, Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts

Entertainment Winners

• “Subject to Change,” by Mollie Singer, University of Maryland College Park
• “All We Have Is Time,” by Wei Guo, Victoria College of the Arts
• “Covid-19 Music Tour,” by Alex Forey, Royal Academy of Dramatic Art
• “Dzika Kaczka - Teatr Telewizji,” by Maciej Strzałkowski - Rajca, Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw