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Contact: Carolyn Gonzales 277-5920, cgonzal@unm.edu

Oct. 30, 2006

UNM Architecture Student Wins International Award

Aric Grauke, an undergraduate student the University of New Mexico School of Architecture and Planning, received an international award in the annual Form Z Joint Study Awards, an international design competition.

Grauke's project, “Love Letter,” received an honorable mention in the visualization and illustration category. Grauke was a student in Rana Abu-Dayyeh and Tim Castillo's Introduction to Digital Design class in the fall 2005.

“This is quite an honor because Form Z receives submissions from 250 schools internationally every year,” Castillo said.

Form Z, a product of the company auto·des·sys, is a 3D modeling program with manipulating and sculpting capabilities. It is a design tool for architects, landscape architects, urban designers, engineers, animators and illustrators, industrial and interior designers, and all design fields that deal with the articulation of 3D spaces and forms. form·Z is a good tool both for experienced designers and novices.

The selection of the awards was made by five jurors outside auto·des·sys, all experts or theorists of computer-aided design.

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