FELECIA DAVIS STUDIO

Bogliascano Foundation Architecture Fellow, 2023, Liguria, Italy. Fall 2023.

WOJR/Civitella Ranieri Foundation/ WOJR Architecture Fellow 2023, Award of a residency and funding to produce a project on site at the Civitella 15th Century castle in Umbria. We are in the Wake:Invisible/Visible June - July, 2023

Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum Award for Digital Design, 2022. The National Design Awards honor innovation and impact and recognize the power of design to change the world. Established in 2000 as a project of the White House Millennium Council, the National Design Awards bring national recognition to the ways in which design enriches everyday life.

Association for Computer Aided Design in Architecture [ACADIA]Innovative Research Award of Excellence, 2022.This award recognizes innovative research that contributes to the field of digital design in architecture. The award distinguishes research with the potential to transform contemporary architecture.

New York Architectural League, Emerging Voices, Portfolio Competition Awardee, 2022. This award spotlights North American individuals and firms with distinct design voices that have the potential to influence the disciplines of architecture, landscape architecture, and urban design.

SOM Foundation Fellowship Research Project Award 2021 for MycoKnit: Cultivating Mycelium-based Composites on Knitted Textiles for Large-Scale Biodegradable Architectural Structures, with Benay Gursoy, Ali Ghazvinian, Farzaneh Oghazian, John Pecchia and Andre West.

Nominee in the Digital Design Category, Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Museum National Design Awards, 2021.

Graham Foundation Individual Project Award 2021, for “Hair Salon: Translating Black Hair Practices for Architecture using Computation Methods” with Marcella de Signore, Sheryl Tucker de Vazquez and William D. Williams.

DigitalFUTURES Project Award2021 for the Flower Antenna, exhibited at Museum of Modern Art, 3rd International Conference on Computational Design and Robotic Fabrication [CDRF] July 2021.

Stuckeman Center for Design Computing, Interdisciplinary Project Support Grant , 2021-22 for DIRECTKNIT: Sample Generating for Machine Learning Based Direct Digital Manufacture Project Collaboration with the Building Design Group at Penn State College of Engineering and the Wilson College of Textiles at North Carolina State University.

Institute for Computation and Data Sciences Seed Grant 2021 for “Implementation of Machine Learning for Analysis and Reverse Form-Finding of Architectural Knitted Textiles” with Nathan Brown and Farzaneh Oghazian

Agnes Scollins Carey Memorial Early Career Professorship in the Arts 2018-2021 for "Knitted Light: Construction of a 1:1 Demonstration Prototype for a Solar Fiber Tension Shade Structure Using Fiber Optic Strands and Potentials for Fiber Optic Strands in Knitted Textiles".

Best Paper Award for "Touch:Communication of Emotion Through Computational Textile Expression". 6th International Conference on Distributed, Ambient and Pervasive Interactions. Human and Computing Interactions International Conference, July 2018.

Stuckeman Family Faculty Career Advancement Incentive Award for Softbuilt: Computational Textile Architectures, book forthcoming from Actar-Press 2019

H. Campbell and Eleanor Stuckeman Fund for Collaborative Research for " Woven Light:  Manufacture of a Solar Fiber Tension Structure Shade Prototype Using Fiber Optic Strands". Interdisciplinary Research with Department of Architecture, Department of Landscape Architecture, the Department of Architectural Engineering, the Department of Energy and Mineral Engineering and the Department of Materials Science and Engineering. Pennsylvania State University, Stuckeman School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture. 2017-2018.

The Raymond A. Bowers Program for Excellence in Design and Construction in the Built Environment, for "Woven Light: Design of a Solar Fiber Tension Structure Shade Prototype using Fiber Optic Strands".  Interdisciplinary Research with Department of Architecture, Department of Landscape Architecture and the Department of Architectural Engineering. Pennsylvania State University School of Engineering. 2018-2017.

Innovation Grant 2016, College of Arts and Architecture for "Couture Computing: Wearable Computing"  to develop a new Stuckeman Center for Design Computing course for graduate students offered spring 2018.

College of Arts and Architecture Individual Faculty Grant for "Wearable Water Filters". Pennsylvania State University College of Arts and Architecture. 2015-2016.

Schlossman Research Fellow for “Sensing Emotion: Textile Wall.” Research award for the design and manufacture of responsive textile wall At the Swedish School of Textiles in Boras Sweden. 2013 MIT School of Architecture and Planning.

Harold Horowitz Research Award, for “Form Active Textile Structures: Interactive Heat Fused Panels a Collaborative Project.” Award given to students from MIT School of Architecture and Planning, The Media Lab and Art Culture and Technology Programs. 2012.

MIT Rosalia Ennis Research Award, for “Three Dimensional Printed Fabrics: Form, Force, Structure”, December 2011. Awarded to African American Women for Research in Architecture and Design.

Best Paper of Conference, for “Sensing Touch Curtain: Soft Architecture”, Iberoamerican Society of Digital Graphics (Sigradi) 2011, Augmented Culture, Santa Fe Argentina, November 2011.

Presidential Graduate Fellow, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge Mass.  2009-2010.

New York State Council of the Arts, Independent Artists Grant for the Digitally Knitted Table, 2009-2010.

The Suzanne Kolarik Underwood Prize 1993 .  Awarded annually at Princeton University to the graduating student in the Master of Architecture Program who has demonstrated exceptional ability and talent throughout their studies in architectural design.