ANN ARBOR—Five students from the University of Michigan’s A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning have been awarded Wallenberg Scholarships, enabling them to broaden their study of architecture to include work in distant locations.

Lina Lee of Ann Arbor, Jonathan Dickson of Lansing, Courtney Ruhl of Spring Lake, Emily Bidegain of Marietta, Ga., and Jesse Pedersen of Princeton, N.J. earned the honors. Lee and Dickson won traveling scholarships of $4,500 each; the others won $1,000 awards.

Taubman College awards the Wallenberg Scholarships each year in honor of Raoul Wallenberg (B.S. Arch. ’35). Wallenberg is credited with single-handedly rescuing more than 100,000 Jews from Nazi persecution in Budapest, Hungary, during World War II. The traveling scholarship, established by the Bernard L. Maas Foundation in 1986, acts as a reminder of Wallenberg’s courage and humanitarianism and is aimed at reflecting his ideals.

This year’s Wallenberg competition jury, composed of visiting critics, chose the work of the five students for recognition.

The Wallenberg studios, coordinated by Taubman College Lecturer Anselmo Canfora, focused on the topic, “Frameworks: (Re)entertaining Detroit.” Undergraduate seniors in the studios examined issues of architectural representation and construction, specifically considering the entertainment industry’s institutional and typological frames. Detroit, a city with well-established, historical entertainment venues in addition to more recently formed and projected arenas, could be explicitly or implicitly addressed in the student projects. After reviews by faculty critics, 18 student projects were selected to be judged by the Wallenberg jury.

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