2023 Cavin Fellowship Scholar: Wesley Thompson
Wesley Thompson, University of Oregon class of 2013 wins the 2023 Cavin Traveling Fellowship.
Congratulations to Wesley Thompson, the 2023 recipient of. the Cavin Family Traveling Fellowship. A registered architect in New York, Wesley holds a Bachelor of Architecture from the University of Oregon where he graduated Cum Laude in 2013. After working at small firms early in his career, he earned a Master of Science with distinction by studying Space Syntax at the Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL in London. His professional work has included commercial and institutional to multi-family residential and retail projects. He is currently working at Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG) in Brooklyn, where he is designing and overseeing the construction of a 750,000 sf ground-up film studio, the first of its kind to integrate vertically stacked sound stages. Wesley will start his travel this fall in Europe and Asia to further his interest in the cultural, social, and environmental factors that shape the built environment.
This year’s Cavin Competition solicited proposals for the Redwood National Park Artist In Residence
Program in Crescent City California which gives artists the opportunity to stay in a National Park while pursuing their work.
The project was to create a new 14,000 square foot purpose-built Artist In Residence facility to allow participants in the program to experience the unique context and beauty of the redwood forest. Proposals were judged on their:
• A careful approach to providing a full spectrum of private, common, and public spaces for the artist to live and work in, and for the Crescent City community to benefit from.
• The design of outdoor spaces for program artists, employees of the adjacent Redwood Park Headquarters building, as well as its neighbors and visitors.
• A clear strategy for the implementation of sustainable strategies, techniques, and technologies.
• A thoughtful response to the increased risk of tsunamis in Crescent City.
The Jury included:
Georgina Baronian, clovisbaronian, Assistant Professor, Rice University School of Architecture
Samuel Clovis, , clovisbaronian,
Emma Price, EP Architecture. Faculty, Cal Poly Pomona
Kyle Bruce, Dialog, Vancouver, UO class of 2000
Ismaelly Pena. GGA+ / Faculty, Woodbury University
Cavin Fellowship Team:
Robert Alexander, Fellowship Secretary/Director
Andrew Lords, Associate Director
Sandra Gutierrez Magallanez, CPP ENV
