University of Pennsylvania Student Takes Top Honors as Richard Diehl Award Recipient Columbia, Md. (September 9, 2014)—Nemetschek Vectorworks, Inc., a provider of intuitive, powerful and practical 2D/3D and Building Information Modeling (BIM) software solutions, announces the first recipients of the Vectorworks Design Scholarship. Fifteen students from eight countries will receive $3,000 USD to support their studies in any design major at the accredited college or university of their choice, and their schools will each get Vectorworks software licenses and training. In addition, University of Pennsylvania landscape architecture student Diego Bermudez was selected as having the top overall entry, so in addition to earning a Vectorworks Design Scholarship, Bermudez received the Richard Diehl Award and an additional $7,000 USD. The Vectorworks Design Scholarship program salutes students across disciplines such as architecture, landscape design, lighting design and interior design who are determined to solve today’s most challenging design problems. In its first year, nearly one thousand students from 56 countries submitted entries, which were evaluated by a talented and global panel of architects, landscape architects, professors, lighting designers and media professionals. These are the students judges recognized as the 2014 Vectorworks Design Scholarship recipients: • Markus Bobik, TU München, Germany, who uses the environment to create a protective shell around the soft core of an Alpine chalet • Enoch (Wes) Calkin, University of Cincinnati, USA, for re-telling Broadway’s “Carrie” as a more intimate and intelligent tragedy • Chen Yin Feng, Chongqing University, China, who transformed abandoned industrial infrastructure into an educational center and public space • Judyta Cichocka, Wrocław University of Technology, Poland, for coming to grips with the latest ideology of architectural iconism • Paul Dembeck, Beuth Hochschule Berlin, Germany, for a stage design that discreetly combines light and video to maintain focus on the artist • Marcel Hauert, Berner Fachhochschule, Switzerland, for a macrocosmic vision for an urban public space • Andrea Linney, University of Toronto, Canada, whose expansion of existing path systems transforms a large, cross-site, open-space • Shao Xing Yu, Southeast University, China, who uses an open space to find a balance between tourists and residents • Michael Signorile, Stevens Institute Of Technology, USA, who uses glass in winter garden hydroponics for his project • Tina Simon, TU Dresden, Germany, for larger-than-life renderings of ornately designed gardens in an urban, Baroque neighborhood • Daniel Sweeting, London Metropolitan University, United Kingdom, who critiques the tourist experience in London • Alexander Davey Thomson, K.U. Leuven, Saint-Lucas Campus, Belgium for his architectural visions of an ecology-based urban future • Lisa Vromman, KASK School of Arts Gent, Belgium, who explored a façade that communicates with the environment and encourages residents to comingle • Wu Xin Jing, Shanghai Theatre Academy, China, who abandons traditional concert effects for dramatic lighting
