LYCEUM PRIZE WINNER!
Congratulations to Joy Mullapally (M-Arch, '22) for being awarded the 2022 Jon McKee Prize. The awarded stipend of $4,500 is to pursue travel. And congratulations to Andrew Tetrault, his advisor.
Jon McKee, AIA ,was the founder of the Lyceum Fellowship, and this travel prize is named in his memory. Jon McKee believed in the power of travel to shape the minds of young designers. He put this spirit of into action by creating the Fellowship in 1985.
The competition required students to develop design proposals for a welcome and research center for the Friesenhahn Cave near San Antonio, Texas. Besides the La Brea Tar Pits in California, it is believed that no site in the United States has yielded a greater variety of significant Pleistocene vertebrate fossils.
This prize is awarded at the discretion of the Lyceum Board of Directors, who independently of the jury, review both the travel statements and submission for alignment with the Lyceum mission. The Board was equally impressed with Joy's competition entry, the artistry of his ideas, and the important questions posed in a very focused travel proposal.
We look forward to covering news of Joy's travels!
