Archinect - News2024-05-01T23:51:27-04:00https://archinect.com/news/article/150130078/lily-zhang-wins-steedman-fellowship-50k-travel-grant-among-largest-u-s-architecture-awards
Lily Zhang wins Steedman Fellowship; $50K travel grant among largest U.S. architecture awards Liam Otten2019-04-03T15:47:00-04:00>2024-03-15T01:45:58-04:00
<img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/21/21b684f90e01a4c470ac52a06fe93589.jpg?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><p>If architecture is in a relationship, posits Lily Zhang, then storage is its selfless soul mate: essential and supportive but typically overlooked.</p>
<p>“Storage allows architecture to maintain order,” said Zhang, an architectural designer based in New York and winner of the <a href="https://steedmanfellowship.wustl.edu/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">2018-19 James Harrison Steedman Memorial Fellowship in Architecture</a>.</p>
<p>“We keep our active inhabitable areas free of clutter and the appearance of overindulgence,” Zhang added, “while banishing unused and unwanted items to the basement, the warehouse, the broom cupboard or the mechanical room.</p>
<p>“Yet rather than dismissing these spaces as passive and inert, what we stash away and where we hide them are as revealing as what we display, if not more.”</p>
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<figcaption>Planometric and sectional views of shared storage spaces, from “Collective Clutter,” which proposes new spatial and socially engaged models of storage. (Image: Courtesy of Lily Zhang)</figcaption><p>Granted since 1925, the biennial Steedman Fellowship is organized by the College of Architect...</p>