Architect Brendan Miller, who graduated in May 2007, was awarded second place in Vitetta’s eighth-annual Best and Brightest architectural student competition. He won $2,000 for his Spring 2007, studio-design thesis, Feedback Loop: Analysis Evolution, an innovative library design that incorporates moving systems within the building. “I’m very excited and honored by this award,” said Miller, now working at Resolution: 4 Architecture in New York. Describing the inspiration for his project, he said, “I started to think about the library in different ways, in how they function now with the introduction of new types of media and the internet. I also incorporated different types of techniques putting the design together.” His design impressed the judges with its “coherence of vision, complexity and consistency,” said Carol Hermann, associate professor of Architecture and interim director of the Architecture Program, who was on the jury for the competition. The awards were announced by Vitetta, an architecture and design firm, at a Jan. 31 reception at Third Street Gallery in Old City Philadelphia. Other Philadelphia University finalists included Stephen Strugula ’09, for this project The Pressure of Flight, and fifth-year students Trevor Horst, Brandon Kruysman and Jonathan Proto, for their dance venue project Systems in Sync: Choreographing User, Space and Time.