Kossman Design
Thesis Reviews
2020 Winner
Thomas Leonard
Thomas Leonard, a fifth-year architecture student in the Stuckeman School at Penn State, was named the winner of the 2020 Kossman Design Thesis Reviews for his project titled “Tremé: Life with the Mississippi.”
An excerpt from Leonard’s thesis project: “Stemming from the frequent flooding of the Mississippi River, the futuristic Capital city of Tremé, Louisiana created a resilient architecture that allows it to rise above the far-reaching floodwaters of the Mississippi and harness its floods as a ways and means of migration. Embracing the dynamism of the Mississippi floodplain, Louisiana’s State Capitol building assembles and reassembles at locations across the state as the landscape changes around it. It expresses the collective disorder of the area, while also embodying the freedom of the people of Louisiana.”