2008 Rotch Studio winner

Recipient

Brian McGrath

Institution

Parsons: the New School for Design

Destination

Bangkok, Thailand

Jury

Sheila Kennedy AIA, chair of the jury

Eve Blau, historian at Harvard GSD

Frano Violich AIA, practicing architect and Boston Society of Architects commissioner of design

David Hacin AIA, practicing architect

Studio

This studio examines the nested scale of Bangkok's Three Ecologies: the productive agricultural environment of the Chaophraya River Delta, the social space of the Pathumwan Central Shopping District and the split attention of the Bangkok citizen's psyche between the demands of traditional "Thainess" and the distractions of globalization.

Full studio submission