The Architectural League unveils 25 recipients for 2023 Architecture + Design Independent Projects grants

The Architectural League of New York and the New York State Council of the Arts have announced the recipients of the 2023 Architecture + Design Independent Projects grants. The 25 proposals, representing a range of design disciplines and locations across New York State, were chosen from 132 applicants.

“Representing a breadth of geographic locales, disciplines, formats, and modes of practice, the selected projects are unified by their potential to advance design through creative innovation and connect with the public of New York State,” the grant organizers said about the 2023 recipients.

The 25 recipients, each of which will receive grants of $10,000, are listed below. More details about the grants series can be found on the Architectural League of New York’s website, and through our previous coverage of the series.

2023 grant recipients

• Jegko Ki: by Benjamin Aranda (New York, NY)
• Post-National Civic Space: An archive of the South Bronx Casita by Saba Ardeshiri, Nicolas Nefiodow, and Maclane Regan (New York, NY)
• A Story of Maintenance and Care at the Patterson Houses by Tobias Armborst, Georgeen Theodore, Daniel D’Oca, Caleb Mitchell, and Richard A Chance (New York, NY)
• In Land We Trust by Nandini Bagchee (New York, NY)
• Revitalizing New York City’s Public Bathroom System: A Vision for the Future by Julie Chou, Kevin Gurley, and Boyeong Hong (New York, NY)

• Harnessing Sound from Knit Textiles by Melissa Conroy and Anthony Dicembre (Ithaca, NY)
• Public Pools by Karolina Czeczek (New York, NY)
• Changing Change: Integrating Preservation Strategies in Chinatown and the Lower East Side by Violette de la Selle and Wesley Hiatt (New York, NY)
• Reparations in Public Space by Ifeoma Ebo and Antoinette Cooper (New York, NY)
• Meet Me on the Astral Plane by Korina Emmerich (Puyallup) (New York, NY)

• Hidden Infrastructures: From “Spy-Hubs” to Hollow Buildings that Conceal the New Digital by Wendy W. Fok (New York, NY)
• Waterworks, Revised by Stanley Greenberg (New York, NY)
• Designing Public Power: An Atlas of Public Lands and Design Scenarios for the Implementation of the Build Public Renewables Act by Andrea Johnson (New York, NY and Upstate Regions)
• The Subway Color Archive by Mari Kroin (New York, NY)
• Touch the Valley by Yee Foo Lai and Douglas Lee (New York, NY)

• Hard Labor, Soft Space: The Making of Radical Farms by Stephanie Kyuyoung Lee (Hudson River Valley communities)
• User Profiles by Suzanne Lettieri and Michael Jefferson (Ithaca, NY)
• Here There Be Dragons: Odes(s)a by Jess Myers (New York, NY)
• Repairing Together: Ongoing and Future Reconstruction Efforts in Ukraine by Galen Pardee and Betty Roytburd (New York, NY)
• Multispecies Totem: Exploring habitats and renewable energy by Eva Perez de Vega and Ian Gordon (New York, NY)

• A Queer Year of Love Letters: Typography Against Erasure by Nat Pyper (New York, NY)
• Presence of the Absence: Reconstructing the Michigan Street Historic Black Corridor by Darius Somers, Teonna Cooksey, and Latoya Kamdang (Buffalo and New York, NY)
• Just Throw It!!!: An Alternative Part-To-Whole System of Non-Contact Construction Based on Novel Interlocking Method by Jin Young Song (Buffalo, NY)
• Sensory Schools: Reimagining Learning Spaces for Neurodiversity by Irina Verona and Jennifer Carpenter (New York, NY)
• Rogue Plants, Native Soils: Histories of Destruction and Its Opposites by Lynnette Widder (New York, NY)