Interdisciplinary research-based architecture and design firm Perkins&Will (Chicago) and the University of Michigan’s Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning have established the Robin Guenther Memorial Scholarship, according to a news release.
Tamar Ayalew, a Class of 2026 architecture graduate student, is the first recipient of the scholarship, named in honor of Robin Guenther, a leader in sustainable healthcare architecture who died of cancer in May 2023.
Some of Guenther’s notable projects include the Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital Stanford (Palo Alto, Calif.), which was the second children’s hospital in the world to earn LEED Platinum certification; Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital (Charlestown, Mass.), which was designed to continue operating during catastrophic flooding; and Memorial Sloan Kettering Monmouth Ambulatory Care Center (Middletown, N.J.), which repurposed a 1980s office building using biophilic design.
Guenther received many accolades, including the Center for Health Design’s Changemaker award in 2005. She also was named one of the most influential designers in healthcare by Healthcare Design in 2010.
Read more about Guenther here.
