UC Berkeley swept all awards at the 2x8: SWELL AIA National Convention exhibition of student projects in Los Angeles in June 2006.

At the national convention's largest single party on Saturday night, with students and faculty from all eight of California's architecture programs present, as well as critics and architects from across the country, the top awards were announced: Georgina Hjulich's studio, including work by Natalia Echeverri, Grant Chang, and others won the $6,000 prize for best studio project; and the Lifebean Emergency Shelter Prototype won a $2,500 prize for the best group project.

The solar-heated Hot-White Orange inflatable amphitheater project, star of last year's hit Wurster Hall courtyard party, was exhibited in an all-school category not eligible for prize money. However, it relived its former glory, with crowds lounging, rolling, and dancing on the special Orange stage by the bar.

All three of the Berkeley projects were also selected to be among a smaller select group of projects that were moved to the Museum of Architecture + Design in Los Angeles, for a two month exhibition that began in July.