{"id":94870,"date":"2021-06-17T08:24:41","date_gmt":"2021-06-17T07:24:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/?p=94870"},"modified":"2023-06-13T16:51:05","modified_gmt":"2023-06-13T15:51:05","slug":"richard-diehl-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/digital-construction\/bim-news\/richard-diehl-award\/94870\/","title":{"rendered":"Vectorworks names Leslie Majer Richard Diehl award winner"},"content":{"rendered":"

Continuing its support for emerging designers, Vectorworks<\/a> has announced Leslie Majer as the Richard Diehl award winner for the fifth Vectorworks Design Scholarship<\/h2>\n

With over 1,800 submissions, scholarships<\/a> were awarded to 28 students for 21 projects in the architecture, entertainment, landscape and interior design industries. Winners included both individual and group submissions.<\/p>\n

The winning project titled \u201cBadehaus Breitstrom\u201d was submitted by Majer for her thesis studio project at Bauhaus Universit\u00e4t Weimar<\/a> and focuses on bathhouses and urban facilities.<\/p>\n

The project includes a historical reference with a focus on contemporary design, construction methods and sustainability. Majer used Vectorworks<\/a> for drawings and connected them to Maxon\u2019s Cinema 4D to create renderings.<\/p>\n

\u2018Elevate and progress the design industry\u2019<\/h3>\n

\u201cLeslie Majer\u2019s project is a true gem,\u201d said Vectorworks product marketing director, Rubina Siddiqui.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt showcases very impressive work\u2014not just in the graphics and the thoroughness or the detail, but the space that is created through the juxtaposition of simple and heavy elements to create something so massive and intricate is quite an accomplishment.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe congratulate Leslie and all this year\u2019s winners for their creative achievements.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe hope the scholarships aid these designers in continuing to elevate and progress the design industry with their contributions.\u201d<\/p>\n

Leslie Majer, now graduate architecture student at ETH; Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Z\u00fcrich<\/a>, added: \u201cIt\u2019s an incredible honour to win this scholarship and to be recognized by a jury of experienced, diverse design professionals.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn architecture school, we\u2019re very much taught to learn and form our own stance on what\u2019s important more so than the real parameters of construction or what our ideas will actually affect in the real world.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is an amazing feeling that the Vectorworks Design Scholarship gave the project and the topics it incorporates a bigger forum, which reaches beyond the discourse of my own university.\u201d<\/p>\n

This year\u2019s winners represented countries from around the globe the US, Dominican Republic, Australia, England, Poland, Germany, Switzerland, Japan.<\/p>\n

Submissions were evaluated based on design quality, concept and originality, the effective use of computer technology, presentation and explanation of design.<\/p>\n

Architecture winners<\/h3>\n