Nine architects and designers named 2023 Architecture League Prize winners

The Architectural League of New York (Arch League) recognizes nine practitioners as winners in its annual Architectural League Prize for Young Architects + Designers. With this year's theme titled "Uncomfortable," the League Prize committee explained that entrants were asked to "examine their discomforts." When explaining this year's theme, Arch League shares, "As young designers, we are wrestling with numerous uncomfortable responsibilities: dismantling architectural legacies, challenging traditional paradigms, grappling with the costs of comfort, responding to ecological concerns. Our many discomforts range in scale, context, and urgency. [...] From climate change to labor practices, the sources of our discomfort demand both critical reflection and collective imagination. Are you restless within the discipline’s status quo? How do you respond to discomfort? Whose comfort matters?"Since it was established in 1981, the League Prize welcomed entrants who are practitioners that have been out of a bachelor's or master's degree for ten years or less. Now in its 42nd cycle, this year's program committee was comprised of Jose Amozurrutia, Germane Barnes, and Jennifer Bonner, along with an experienced set of jury members such as Barbara Bestor, Wonne Ickx, Kyle Miller, and Tya Winn, among others.Katie MacDonald and Kyle Schumann of After Architecture - Charlottesville, VARead the full post on Bustler