Winterhouse Awards for Design Writing & Criticism

2009 recipients

Sean Keller

The Writing Award—open to writers, critics, scholars, historians, journalists and designers, in the amount of $10,000—was awarded to Sean Keller, for his three submissions:

Sean Keller is assistant professor of architectural history and theory at the Illinois Institute of Technology. He received his PhD from Harvard University and has been a visiting lecturer at Yale University. Keller has been a frequent contributor to Artforum, and his writings have appeared in the anthology Architecture and Authorship and the journal Grey Room. He is currently working on a book about the concept of reflexive modernism in postwar architecture.

Chappell Ellison

One Education Award—open to high school, undergraduate or graduate students whose use of writing, in the interest of making visual work or scholarship or cultural observation, demonstrates extraordinary originality and promise, in the amount of $1,000—was awarded to Chappell Ellison, for her submission:

Chappell Ellison is currently an MFA student in the Design Criticism program at the School of Visual Arts. She received her BFA in 2007 at the University of Texas, where she majored in design. While completing her undergraduate studies, she was a proud participant in the Land Arts of the American West program. After graduating, she worked at web and graphic design companies before migrating to her current home in Manhattan.

Steven Lauritano

One Education Award, in the amount of $1,000, was also awarded to Steven Lauritano, for his submission:

Steven Lauritano, an aspiring historian/theorist of architecture and the visual arts, studied architecture at Princeton, earning his bachelor’s degree in 2005. After graduation, he continued his studies in Germany as a Fulbright Fellow at the Humboldt Universität zu Berlin before returning to Princeton to receive an MArch professional degree. This fall he will begin working toward a doctoral degree in the history of art at Yale.