UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa., May 13 -- Pennsylvania State University issued the following news release:
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. - Makaila Haislip, a recent architecture graduate from the Penn State College of Arts and Architecture's Stuckeman School, was named the winner of the Department of Architecture's 2026 Kossman Senior Design Award for her thesis project that rethinks how cities grow and who gets to shape their futures.
Titled "Staging Space," Haislip's thesis broadly focused on historically marginalized neighborhoods that are facing controversial visions for future development. Rather than approaching design as a process of replacement, she argued that architecture should "stage rather than replace" communities, which would allow residents...