Thesis coordinator Hernan Diaz Alonso describes the judging process that selected 11 projects and 4 prize winners out of the 2009 graduate thesis projects. Graduate program coordinator Hsinming Fung notes the unusual diversity of work. Director Eric Owen Moss describes the work as raising questions about where architecture might go. He engages the four prize-winners in conversation about their projects:
Sarah Blankenbaker, Superposition
F. Myles Sciotto, Ambientalterity: through the projected perception of the inter-alien
Yu Nong Khew, Tendencies of sensational openings
Edward Kim, Exquisite Heartbreak Hotel