Summer Travel 2026 Lottery

Galicia, Spain led by Ana María Durán and Hawaii led by Dominic Leong replaced Tatiana Bilbao’s Mexico City this year.

Durán’s Spain trip promises to immerse students in the forests around the famous pilgrimage city of Santiago de Compostela, in collaboration with Chipperfield’s 9-year-old non-profit foundation, Fundación RIA. Students will be focused on the “long-term sustainability of both the built and natural environment,” according to the foundation. Durán suggested the students could build an animal shed, but encouraged students to develop their own projects.

Leong’s Hawaii trip was the least popular of the options, possibly because there was extremely limited information about the trip. Even the dates were not announced until a day or two before the lottery. Leong said that, although he doesn’t have many details ironed out, his intention is to match the needs of local groups with the skillsets of YSoA students. Previous students have had very positive reviews of Leong’s teaching, and they described his prior advanced studio trip to Hawaii as a lot of time spent with “champagne on a boat.”

Rome was the most popular as expected, but Galicia was almost equally oversubscribed in polling, indicating that students are as interested in the sustainable and experimental as they are the historic and formal.