The 2007 AIA|LA 2×8: award recipients are:
First Place
$5,000
Woodbury – Burbank
Natalie Popik
Carbon Emission Trading Tower – Aeroponics
Second Place
$4,000
UCLA
Shawn Gupta
Water Tight
Fourth Place
$2,000
LAIAD
Maria Gomez
Chess Project
Third place
$2,000
SCI-Arc
Ben Toam
Systems of Accumulation
Fifth place
$2,000
UC Berkeley
Mark Pembroke
The 4 Elements of Hip Hop


‘VERT’, the 2007 2×8 Student Exhibit was held at the Pacific Design Center in West Hollywood.
Here are the details of the exhibition’s design.
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GREEN=The exhibition design is sustainable. Displays are made entirely out of 80% recycled content cardboard tubes. The fluorescent back-lighting with eco-friendly lamps use little power and will be re-used in future exhibitions
VERTicality: Display towers fill the space, identifying each school from one direction, and showcasing the student work from the other.
VERTebrae: Clustered towers resembling vertebrae are oriented along a spine that meanders through the cloumns of the existing lobby.