Young architects and designers are invited to submit work to the annual Architectural League Prize Competition. Projects of all types, either theoretical or real, and executed in any medium, are welcome. The jury will select work for presentation in lectures, digital media, and an exhibition in June 2019. Winners will receive a cash prize of
Current Work is a lecture series featuring leading figures in the worlds of architecture, urbanism, design, and art. Architects Momoyo Kaijima and Yoshiharu Tsukamoto of Atelier Bow-Wow and artist Rirkrit Tiravanija will discuss recent projects and share views on life, art, and architecture. Atelier Bow-Wow is a Tokyo-based firm founded in 1992 by Kaijima and Tsukamoto. Based on the
CALL FOR ENTRIES 2020 Architectural League Prize for Young Architects + Designers | Value COMPETITION SUBMISSION DEADLINE: Monday, February 10, 2020 5:00 p.m. EST JURY Lucia Allais Paul Lewis Anna Puigjaner Nanako Umemoto THE YOUNG ARCHITECTS + DESIGNERS COMMITTEE Kutan Ayata Mira Henry Kevin Hirth CALL FOR ENTRIES Young architects and designers are invited to
The Architectural League’s spring 2021 Current Work series, titled “Reckoning, Reclamation, and Regeneration,” examines some of the inherited histories, conventions, fabrics, and systems—often taken for granted—that constitute and shape the built environment. How might we reconsider the ways we engage with and construct the places that surround us? Speakers will address issues including transforming architectural
American Roundtable is an Architectural League initiative, bringing together on-the-ground perspectives on the condition of American communities and what they need to thrive going forward. Africatown is a small community outside of Mobile, Alabama, founded by emancipated Africans who had been illegally trafficked to the United States by slave-traders in 1860 aboard the ship Clotilda. If We
To mark the publication of Young Architects 21: Just, the 2019 League Prize winners and committee members reunite online to discuss the “just” in design—and how it’s changed in the past three years. In late 2018, the Young Architects + Designers Committee announced a prescient theme for that year’s League Prize competition: Just. That spring
A team of volunteer architects and designers has created a pathway for US-based firms to offer remote freelance work to Ukrainian design professionals affected by the war. In this online information session, participants will hear from the initiative’s organizers, as well as firm principals and Ukrainian designers who have already created successful working relationships through
The Architectural League's spring 2022 Current Work series focuses on architectural practices designing museums, schools, and cultural centers that contend with the complex legacies of place. Kashef Chowdhury cofounded the Dhaka-based firm URBANA in 1995 and has led the practice as solo principal since 2004. The firm’s projects span various typologies and methodologies, from climate-action
Would Prefer Not To is an oral history project conducted through audio interviews on the topic of the most important kind of refusal in architects’ toolboxes: refusal of the architectural commission. To mark the launch of I Would Prefer Not To, the project’s creator Ana Miljački sits down with Mario Gooden and Paul Lewis to
Current Work is a lecture series featuring leading figures in the worlds of architecture, urbanism, design, and art. The fall 2022 Current Work series examines new models for meeting essential community needs while creating environmentally responsible and architecturally significant structures. Mexico City’s PILARES (Puntos de Innovación, Libertad, Arte, Educación y Saberes, or Points of Innovation,
Current Work is a lecture series featuring leading figures in the worlds of architecture, urbanism, design, and art. The fall 2022 Current Work series examines projects and firms enacting new modes of architectural practice, collaboration, and community engagement. This event explores several new New York City community spaces and the diversity of programs, stakeholders, and
The first evening of lectures by winners of “Uncomfortable,” the 2023 Architectural League Prize for Young Architects + Designers. The League Prize is an annual competition that has been organized by The Architectural League since 1981. Open to designers ten years or less out of school, it draws entrants from around North America. The 2023
