Description

The Architectural League Prize for Young Architects + Designers is an annual competition, a series of lectures, an exhibition, and a publication, all organised by the Architectural League of New York and its Young Architects and Designers Committee. The 2016 competition theme, (im)permanence, asked entrants to consider the form and meaning of impermanence or permanence in their work. Projects by six winners respond to current aspects of society, economy, and policy, or invent systems of order that acknowledge the relationship of architecture to time. 2016 winners: Neeraj Bhatia, The Open Workshop, San Francisco, CA Yves de Fontenay and Hubert Pelletier, Pelletier de Fontenay, Montreal, Canada Aaron Forrest and Yasmin Vobis, Ultramoderne, Providence, RI Rania Ghosn and El Hadi Jazairy, DESIGN EARTH, Cambridge, MA and Ann Arbor, MI Juan Alfonso Garduno Jardon, G3 Arquitectos, Queretaro, Mexico Mete Sonmez and Neyran Turan, NEMESTUDIO, San Francisco, CA The Architectural League of New York, founded in 1881, nurtures excellence in architecture, design, and urbanism, and stimulates thinking and debate about the critical design and building issues of our time. As a vital, independent forum for architecture and its allied disciplines, the League helps create a more beautiful, vibrant, innovative, and sustainable future. SELLING POINTS: Documents an important lecture and exhibition series, which has introduced creative young architects to a national stage for more than three decades Shows the breadth of contemporary practices with projects in various typologies 185 colour, 140 b/w images