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2024
McDowell Opens New Practice in Staunton, Virginia refocusing creative efforts towards projects of a regional and design + build flavor.
2020
The Subterranean Studio receives AIA Virginia Honorable Mention
in the Interior Design Category.
2018
NBC29 and The Daily Progress cover mcdowellespinosa's public presentation in Scottsville, VA
for the adaptive reuse design concepts for The Scottsville Tire Plant
South Carolina Farmhouse Kitchen Shortlisted
in The Plan Magazine's Kitchen Design Special Contest
Work from McDowell's UVA studio "Building Tolerance" presented at the 106th ACSA Annual Meeting
in Denver, Colorado.
"Breaking BIM with Abnormal Components" presented at the 106th ACSA Annual Meeting
in Denver Colorado.
McDowell featured in UVAToday
in article called “Architecture Professor’s Firm Takes National Design Award”
2017
mcdowellespinosa architects Win Young Architect of the Year in The Architect’s Newspaper A|N Best of Design Awards
Cornelius Cube wins Second Place
in the Structure of Freedom International Competition for Budapest's Sziget Festival Pavilion
West Heating Rooftop Housing Receives Honorable Mention
NY Build's Affordable Housing Challenge
Sod-Lam Trekking Cabin Wins an Unbuilt Award
in the American Institute of Architects’ DC Chapter Unbuilt Awards Competition
"Unfindable Objects for BIM" selected for ACADIA 2017 Conference
in the Projects Exhibition: Disciplines & Disruption
McDowell showcases "Drift City" in graphic essay for University of Illinois at Chicago School of Architecture
“The Great Sea Wall—POTUS Jettisons the Southern Wall, Starts Work to
Secure Eastern and Western Borders,” published in Fresh Meat Journal Issue IX Fake Fiction
West Heating Housing Project Highlighted in Lunch Vol. 12
in essay “Ville Spatiale Revisited: Colonizing the Urban Roofscape with Mass
Timber,” within University of Virginia's Lunch Vol. 12: Tactics.
2016
mcdowellespinosa featured in new book
Young Architects 17: Authenticity. Winners of the 2015 Architectural League Prize for Young Architects + Designers
Drift City Receives Honorable Mention
in the Laka Competition: Architecture that Reacts
McDowell's "Breaking BIM" Drawings Receive Honorable Mention
in The Architect's Newspaper A|N Best of Design Awards for Digital Architectural Representation
Espinosa's "Vessel" Chosen to be Exhibited at University of Texas, Austin
for the The Secret Life of Buildings - Objects Symposium and Exhibition, University of Texas, Austin
Drift City Receives Honorable Mention
in Princeton Architectural Press' Pamphlet Architecture 36 Competition: Buoyancy and Floating
Grundy Youth Center wins an Emerging Professionals Award
by American Institute of Architects DC Chapter
McDowell discusses the future of cities with The Guardian
in article “Story of Cities Future: What will our growing megacities really look like?” by Darran Anderson
2015
mcdowellespinosa wins an Architecture League of NY Prize for "Authenticity"
one of North America’s most prestigious awards for young architects and designers.
Delirious Detroit (The Detroit Incubator for the Avant-Garde) Wins Unbuilt Award
in the American Institute of Architects’ DC Chapter Unbuilt Awards Competition
Turnstile Folly design receives a Jury Citation
for the Socrates Sculpture Park Folly Competition sponsored by the Architecture League of NY
mcdowellespinosa's "Layered Intelligence" Wins the CHIDesign Competition
for The Chicago Architecture Foundation's Center for Architecture, Design and Education
“Layered Intelligence” featured in Architecture & Culture No. 415.
an International Journal on Architecture.
mcdowellespinosa’s ‘Layered Intelligence’ Challenges the Typology of Mixed Use Buildings
is title of Eric Oh's article on ArchDaily
McDowell's "Dear Architecture" Letter wins Honorable Mention
in Blank Space's Dear Architecture Competition and will be published in upcoming book.
"City of Blubber" featured in STUDIO Architecture and Urbanism Magazine
in Issue #9: Beyond. An International journal from Milan, Italy.
"City of Blubber" and "Drift City" featured in New Architecture Assembly Magazine
in Issue 2: On the Edge of Architecture. An International Academic Journal from the University of Tehran.
An interview with Seth McDowell published in Catalyst: Lineages / Trajectories
a UVA School of Architecture Journal published by ACTAR.
UVAToday Features Seth McDowell and mcdowellespinosa
in article by Caroline Newman called “Architecture Professor’s Fantastical Vision for Future Cities Nets Elite Prize”
mcdowellespinosa's work with recycled materials discussed in Triple Pundit
in Jan Lee's article “3 Architects Who are Converting Your Waste to Buildings”
2014
"City of Blubber" featured in LUNCH Vol. 9
in the essay “City of Blubber: a fantasy,” within Lunch Vol. 9: In Excess by University of Virginia's School of Architecture.
Ghazal Abbasy-Asbagh discusses "Water Fuel"
in "Size Matters" an essay published in Dialectic II: Architecture Between Boom
and Bust —The Journal of the School of Architecture at University of Utah
2013
"My Hair is at MoMA PS1" receives Runner-Up
in MoMA PS1 Young Architects Program Warm-Up Series Competition
"Water Fuel" Featured in New Book
Architecture For A Green Future, published by LinksBooks, Barcelona.
"My Hair is at MoMA PS1" Featured in New UVA School of Architecture Book
Catalyst: Conditions/Responses published by ACTAR
"My Hair is at MoMA PS1" receives attention from design and culture blogs
including ArchDaily, Bustler, Archinect, OBJECT LESSON: Architecture and Design News, Inhabitat, and Curbed NY.
"City of Blubber" selected for the Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism\Architecture in Hong Kong
to be exhibited in Beyond the Urban Edge: ‘The
Ideal City’ curated by Prof. Colin Fournier
2012
mcdowellespinosa (TempAgency) selected as a Finalist for the MoMA PS1 Young Architects Program
by the Museum of Modern Art in NYC
"Water Fuel" wins First Place
in the 3rd Advanced Architecture Contest: The Self-Sufficient City, sponsored by the Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia
mcdowellespinosa's Water Fuel drawing showcased as cover for new ACTAR book
called Self Sufficient City: Envisioning the Habitat of the Future: 3rd Advanced Architecture Contest
"Drift City" selected as Finalist
in the 3rd Advanced Architecture Contest: The Self-Sufficient City, sponsored by the Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia
"Drift City" selected as Runner-Up
in the Pamphlet Architecture 30 Competition: Investigations in Infrastructure
2021
The Library of Songdo receives AIA Virginia Design Excellence Award
in the Unbuilt Category.
2022
Next New York book released, co-edited by Seth McDowell and Mona El-Khafif
published by Applied Research + Design Publishing.
McDowell appointed to Director of Graduate Architecture Program at the University of Virginia's School of Architecture.
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