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The winning "Authenticity" designers of the 2015 Architectural League Prize

By Bustler Editors|

Thursday, May 14, 2015

Thom Moran, Rainbro | photo courtesy of the designer

The Architectural League of New York announced six winners for the 2015 Architectural League Prize. As one of North America's most prestigious awards for young practitioners, since 1981 the Prize recognizes provocative and exemplary work and provides a public outlet for the exchange of ideas. The portfolio competition invites designers around North America who have been out of school 10 years maximum.

Hosted by the League and the Young Architects + Designers Committee, this year's competition theme was Authenticity, which asks how recent advances in computation, visualization, material intelligence, and fabrication technologies are altering our theoretical understanding of design principles. The theme also examines the architect's role in these advances as well as practical approaches towards architecture and research.

This year’s winners are:

  • Dan Adams and Marie Adams, Landing Studio, Somerville, MA
  • Erin Besler, Besler & Sons, Los Angeles, CA
  • Seth McDowell and Rychiee Espinosa, mcdowellespinosa, Scottsville, VA and Brooklyn, NY
  • Thom Moran, Ann Arbor, MI
  • Anna Neimark and Andrew Atwood, First Office, Los Angeles, CA
  • Clark Thenhaus, Endemic, Ann Arbor, MI.

Thom Moran, Ann Arbor, MI

Thom Moran, Tables and Chairs | photo courtesy of the designer

"Thom Moran is an Ann Arbor, Michigan-based designer. Moran’s collaborative design work focuses on, in his words, 'using humor to investigate the relationships between architecture, environments and objects.' He also collaborates on projects and exhibitions at the Detroit-based initiative THING THING." Read more.

Erin Besler, Besler & Sons, Los Angeles, CA

Besler & Sons, The Entire Situation | photo copyright Joshua White
Besler & Sons, The Entire Situation | photo copyright Joshua White

"Erin Besler founded Los Angeles, California-based Besler & Sons in 2014. Her work, in her own words, 'references and reuses things that are already in circulation,' which she then seeks to 'refit into a slightly different framework.' Besler has described her work as operating 'between multiple sites of production'— in both educational and professional contexts." Read more.

Anna Neimark and Andrew Atwood, First Office, Los Angeles, CA

First Office, Duchamp Door, Shotgun House | photo c ourtesy of the firm
First Office, Possible Table 2 | photo courtesy of the firm

"Anna Niemark and Andrew Atwood founded Los Angeles, California-based First Office in 2011. The practice covers a variety of scales, from furniture design to building headquarters, landscape interventions, and conceptual installations." Read more.

Dan Adams and Marie Adams, Landing Studio, Somerville, MA

Landing Studio, LUMEN | photo courtesy of the firm.
Landing Studio, Infra-Space 1 | rendering courtesy of the firm

"Dan Adams and Marie Adams founded Somerville, Massachusetts-based Landing Studio in 2005. The studio describes its focus as 'developing design tactics for positively integrating active global industries and infrastructures into their local contexts.' The studio’s clients and projects include port facilities, headquarters buildings, demolition plans, shared industrial/public park landscapes, ocean transport, and mining operations worldwide." Read more.

Seth McDowell and Rychiee Espinosa, mcdowellespinosa, Scottsville, VA and Brooklyn, NY

mcdowellespinosa, My Hair is at MoMA PS1 | photos courtesy of TempAgency
mcdowellespinosa, Anomally Folly 03 | photo courtes y of Seth McDowell

"Seth McDowell and Rychiee Espinosa founded Scottsville, Virginia and Brooklyn, New York-based mcdowellespinosa in 2010. Their practice, concerned with the 'transformation of waste, excess and the ordinary into new spatial and material realities,' emerged from their project Water Fuel: The Plan for a Self-Sustaining New York, which earned first place in the Self-Sufficient City competition held by the Institute of Advanced Architecture of Catalonia. These investigations are explored at diverse scales and formats from the city to the object, from architecture to product design." Read more.

Clark Thenhaus, Endemic, Ann Arbor, MI

Endemic, Poor Forms | photo courtesy of Clark Thenhaus, Endemic
Endemic, Belvedere & Berms | photo courtesy of Clark Thenhaus, Endemic

Clark Thenhaus founded the Ann Arbor, Michigan-based design research office Endemic in 2010. The studio’s work engages the duality of the term 'endemic’s' definition: on one hand, 'the traditional meaning concerning context, language, and material sensibilities as an intensely local construct,' and on the other, 'as a term of the discipline itself, thus making contact with fundamental, cross-cultural conversations on technique, history, form, and process as inherent to the practice of architecture.' Read more.

The League Prize is an annual portfolio competition organized by The Architectural League under the direction of League Program Director Anne Rieselbach and the Young  Architects and Designers Committee. The committee, a group selected each year from past winners of the League Prize, develops the program’s theme and selects the competition jurors. Members of the committee for 2014-15 are Carrie Norman, John Rhett Russo, and Jenny Sabin.

Winners will lecture next month (Night I, Night II) and exhibit their work starting June 23-August 1, 2015. Find exclusive interviews with the winners and their works from the ArchLeague here.

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The winning "Authenticity" designers of the 2015 Architectural League Prize

By Bustler Editors|

Thursday, May 14, 2015

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Thom Moran, Rainbro | photo courtesy of the designer

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young designers ● young architects ● technology ● research ● portfolio competition ● portfolio ● fabrication ● authenticity ● architectural league prize ● architectural league of new york

The Architectural League of New York announced six winners for the 2015 Architectural League Prize. As one of North America's most prestigious awards for young practitioners, since 1981 the Prize recognizes provocative and exemplary work and provides a public outlet for the exchange of ideas. The portfolio competition invites designers around North America who have been out of school 10 years maximum.

Hosted by the League and the Young Architects + Designers Committee, this year's competition theme was Authenticity, which asks how recent advances in computation, visualization, material intelligence, and fabrication technologies are altering our theoretical understanding of design principles. The theme also examines the architect's role in these advances as well as practical approaches towards architecture and research.

This year’s winners are:

  • Dan Adams and Marie Adams, Landing Studio, Somerville, MA
  • Erin Besler, Besler & Sons, Los Angeles, CA
  • Seth McDowell and Rychiee Espinosa, mcdowellespinosa, Scottsville, VA and Brooklyn, NY
  • Thom Moran, Ann Arbor, MI
  • Anna Neimark and Andrew Atwood, First Office, Los Angeles, CA
  • Clark Thenhaus, Endemic, Ann Arbor, MI.

Thom Moran, Ann Arbor, MI

Thom Moran, Tables and Chairs | photo courtesy of the designer

"Thom Moran is an Ann Arbor, Michigan-based designer. Moran’s collaborative design work focuses on, in his words, 'using humor to investigate the relationships between architecture, environments and objects.' He also collaborates on projects and exhibitions at the Detroit-based initiative THING THING." Read more.

Erin Besler, Besler & Sons, Los Angeles, CA

Besler & Sons, The Entire Situation | photo copyright Joshua White
Besler & Sons, The Entire Situation | photo copyright Joshua White

"Erin Besler founded Los Angeles, California-based Besler & Sons in 2014. Her work, in her own words, 'references and reuses things that are already in circulation,' which she then seeks to 'refit into a slightly different framework.' Besler has described her work as operating 'between multiple sites of production'— in both educational and professional contexts." Read more.

Anna Neimark and Andrew Atwood, First Office, Los Angeles, CA

First Office, Duchamp Door, Shotgun House | photo c ourtesy of the firm
First Office, Possible Table 2 | photo courtesy of the firm

"Anna Niemark and Andrew Atwood founded Los Angeles, California-based First Office in 2011. The practice covers a variety of scales, from furniture design to building headquarters, landscape interventions, and conceptual installations." Read more.

Dan Adams and Marie Adams, Landing Studio, Somerville, MA

Landing Studio, LUMEN | photo courtesy of the firm.
Landing Studio, Infra-Space 1 | rendering courtesy of the firm

"Dan Adams and Marie Adams founded Somerville, Massachusetts-based Landing Studio in 2005. The studio describes its focus as 'developing design tactics for positively integrating active global industries and infrastructures into their local contexts.' The studio’s clients and projects include port facilities, headquarters buildings, demolition plans, shared industrial/public park landscapes, ocean transport, and mining operations worldwide." Read more.

Seth McDowell and Rychiee Espinosa, mcdowellespinosa, Scottsville, VA and Brooklyn, NY

mcdowellespinosa, My Hair is at MoMA PS1 | photos courtesy of TempAgency
mcdowellespinosa, Anomally Folly 03 | photo courtes y of Seth McDowell

"Seth McDowell and Rychiee Espinosa founded Scottsville, Virginia and Brooklyn, New York-based mcdowellespinosa in 2010. Their practice, concerned with the 'transformation of waste, excess and the ordinary into new spatial and material realities,' emerged from their project Water Fuel: The Plan for a Self-Sustaining New York, which earned first place in the Self-Sufficient City competition held by the Institute of Advanced Architecture of Catalonia. These investigations are explored at diverse scales and formats from the city to the object, from architecture to product design." Read more.

Clark Thenhaus, Endemic, Ann Arbor, MI

Endemic, Poor Forms | photo courtesy of Clark Thenhaus, Endemic
Endemic, Belvedere & Berms | photo courtesy of Clark Thenhaus, Endemic

Clark Thenhaus founded the Ann Arbor, Michigan-based design research office Endemic in 2010. The studio’s work engages the duality of the term 'endemic’s' definition: on one hand, 'the traditional meaning concerning context, language, and material sensibilities as an intensely local construct,' and on the other, 'as a term of the discipline itself, thus making contact with fundamental, cross-cultural conversations on technique, history, form, and process as inherent to the practice of architecture.' Read more.

The League Prize is an annual portfolio competition organized by The Architectural League under the direction of League Program Director Anne Rieselbach and the Young  Architects and Designers Committee. The committee, a group selected each year from past winners of the League Prize, develops the program’s theme and selects the competition jurors. Members of the committee for 2014-15 are Carrie Norman, John Rhett Russo, and Jenny Sabin.

Winners will lecture next month (Night I, Night II) and exhibit their work starting June 23-August 1, 2015. Find exclusive interviews with the winners and their works from the ArchLeague here.

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