-Documents the important lecture and exhibition series that for more
than three decades has introduced creative young architects on a
national stage -Shows the breadth of contemporary practices with
projects for reimagined topographies, reclaimed industrial landscapes,
art installations, furniture, and small structures The Architectural
League Prize is an annual event involving a competition, a series of
lectures, an exhibition, and a publication, organized by the
Architectural League of New York and its Young Architects and Designers
Committee. The 2015 competition theme, 'Authenticity', investigated
recent advances in computation, visualization, material intelligence,
and fabrication technologies, exploring how these advances have begun to
alter the understanding of general design principles as well as the
architect's role and practical approach toward architecture and
research. Projects by the six winners address new positions of
authenticity in architecture through form, design, substance, function,
context, and other means that direct and transform their practices. The
winners are: Dan Adams and Marie Adams, Landing Studio, Somerville, MA;
Anna Neimark and Andrew Atwood, First Office, Los Angeles; Erin Besler,
Besler & Sons, Los Angeles; Seth McDowell and Rychiee Espinosa,
mcdowellespinosa, Scottsville, VA, and Brooklyn; Thom Moran, Ann Arbor,
MI; and Clark Thenhaus, Endemic, Ann Arbor, MI.
