2026 Capstone projects

The final design class culminates in a self-directed project that demonstrates competency in site selection, analysis, programming a site, conceptualizing a design, and rendering a final conceptual design proposal booklet.

INSTRUCTORS: Meg Rushing Coffee and Jim Pickel

Michelle Sullivan
Dean Howell
Stephanie Landregan
Madison Glazer

JUDGES:

Kim Rhodes
Angie Song
Melanie Buffa

SCRIBES:

Laura Williams
Daniel Talton
Bella Smith
Tato Maizza
JP Hogan

Elisa Reclusado
Ranen Ayob
Michael Bircumshaw
Lauren Tucker
Charlie Follette

Utility Easement to
Thriving Community Center

Ben Marchesano

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Regenerative Confluence:

Reimagining Urban Flood Infrastructure at the Compton Creek and Los Angeles River

Callie Ham

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Designing Schoolyards as Connected Systems:

Integrating Thermal Comfort, Health and Well-Being, Learning, and Environmental Performance at Rice Elementary

Garo Manjikian

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INVITATIONS TO STAY:

Reimagining Social and Ecological Life at Caltech

Jen Moody

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Arena Park:

Renewed Energy in South Bay L.A.

Josep Ferrer Miranda

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Reconnecting:

Creek and Marsh, Community and Nature

Kristin Byrd

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A New Mission for Mission Bay:

Envisioning a Public & Resilient Waterfront on the South Shore

Leeloo Gilet

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Reimagining Border Crossings

Mitchell Miller

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Resiliency in the WUI:

Where Reciprocal Relationships Build Capacity to Thrive: A Janes Village Case Study

Nikki Rinehart

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Rewoven:

Fire, Water and People at Runyon Canyon

Patrese Winter

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From Greyfield to Green:

Reimagining A Historic Site In Oakland California

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Patricia Yusuf

Rooted in South LA:

An Urban Ecology of Habitat and Culture

Tate Tilles-Perrine

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From Landfill to Living Landscape

Torie Stover

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Renewed Purpose:

Restoring Land and Lives
on a Brownfield in Compton

Zoë Marans

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Rhythms of Place

A Civic Landscape in the Crenshaw Corridor

Charlie Leazer

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Kuruvungna Village Springs:

Reaffirming a Living Cultural Landscape

Victoria Gutierrez

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