Recipient of the 2010 SOM Grand Prize Architecture, Design, and Urban Design, Marilyn is researching climate mediation strategies in vernacular residential architecture in an effort to discern the tipping point [as evidenced in the built environment] between exigencies of climate and demands of cultural tradition.  Marilyn’s work is relevant not just because of the climate mediation strategies it catalogs at both the building and urban scales, but in the methods of analysis it employs, both quantitative [temperature and climate data collection] and qualitative [sketching, experiential diagramming], and then ultimately hybridizes. Thus, her post-travel drawings focus on combining field drawings, quantitative data, and digital graphics into multi-layered, graphical evidence of field investigation and post-field processing, presenting a tangible product of an architectural inquiry process.