The Architectural League has announcesd six firms as winners of the award each year, to spotlight young and innovative North American architects and designers.
Relating this year’s theme of Value, New Affiliates placed emphasis on the pressing and inventive possibilities of reuse across scales in architecture from installations to pavilions, including ground-ups to renovations.
Ivi Diamantopoulou and Jaffer Kolb of New Affiliates named recipients of this year’s Architectural League of New York's League Prize.
The partners described how they “scavenge for parts to reconstruct fragments, surfaces, and forms out of byproducts; to find hidden moments of value and invent new visual languages and disciplinary tools along the way.”
In addition to New Affiliates, this year's other League Prize award winners are David Eskenazi of d.esk, Garrett Ricciardi and Julian Rose of Formlessfinder, Leslie Lok and Sasa Zivkovic of Hannah, Issac Michan Daniel of Michan Architecture, and Luis Beltrán del Río García and Andrew Sosa Martínez of Vrtical.
Given the constraints of social engagement due to the Covid-19 pandemic, this year’s League Prize program will be presented entirely online.
Winners will deliver streamed lectures followed by a live Q&A session and will create digital installations of their work.
Ivi Diamantopoulou and Jaffer Kolb of New Affiliates will give an online lecture on June 22, 2020 alongside Issac Michan Daniel of Michan Architecture.
The League Prize is organized under the direction of program director Anne Rieselbach, program manager Catarina Flaksman, and the Young Architects + Designers Committee.
The Architectural League of New York nurtures excellence in architecture, design, and urbanism, and stimulates thinking and action on 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.
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