Several College of Design alumni recently received honors for their work.

• Brad Baer, 2007 architecture graduate, was named a 2011 Iowa STATEment Maker by the Iowa State University Alumni Association. Currently, he is completing his Master of Architecture degree at Yale University. He recently worked on the Cellophane House at New York’s Museum of Modern Art.
• William Chilton and Jon Pickard, 1976 architecture graduates, received the 2011 Distinguished Alumni Award from the Iowa State University Alumni Association at the Distinguished Awards Celebration on Friday. They are the co-founders and principals of Pickard Chilton in New Haven, Conn. The Distinguished Alumni Award is the highest award given to alumni through the Alumni Association.
• Peter Goche, who earned his master’s in architecture from Iowa State in 2005 and is a current lecturer in architecture at the College of Design, will have his work displayed in the Bemis Gardens exhibit at the Bemis Center for Contemporary Art in Omaha, Neb. this summer. 
• Saral Surakul, 1997 master’s graduate in interior design earned an Honorable Mentioned for “Memento Mori” in the 36th Annual Lyndon House Arts Center Juried Exhibition in Athens, Ga. in March. Additionally, it appeared on the cover of a March edition of Flagpole Magazine.
• Bryce Swanson, 1995 landscape architecture graduate, was one of three golf course architects to be named to Golf Magazine’s “40 Under 40: The most influential people in golf under 40 years old” in October 2010.