- 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 in various typologies The Architectural League Prize for Young
Architects + Designers is an annual competition, series of lectures,
exhibition, and publication organized by the Architectural League of New
York. For over thirty years, the League Prize has recognized outstanding
and provocative work by up-and-coming North American architects and
designers. The 2017 competition theme, Support, defines the term as 'an
artifice that props architecture up while in turn facilitating new
ideas, new forms, and new opportunities for action'. The competition
asked entrants to define support's effect on architecture as tangible
(how buildings stand up), financial (how buildings are funded), and
theoretical (how buildings contribute to architectural discourse). The
six competition winners avoided literal definitions in favor of
metaphorical, historical, and methodological interpretations that have
the potential to generate form. 2017 winners: Architecture Office
(Jonathan Louie, Nicole McIntosh), Syracuse, New York; Michelle JaJa
Chang, Houston, Texas; KEVIN HIRTH Co. (Kevin Hirth), Denver, Colorado;
the Lab-lab for architecture (Mustafa Faruki), New York, New York; LANZA
Atelier (Isabel Martínez Abascal, Alessandro Arienzo), Mexico City;
SPORTS (Greg Corso & Molly Hunker), Syracuse, New York. Contents:
Acknowledgments; Foreword; Introduction; Biographies; Firm Sections.
