Emerging Voices 2017
John Hill
26. January 2017
Image: Architectural League
The Architectural League of New York has announced the eight firms receiving its 2017 Emerging Voices Award, the annual competition that "spotlights North American individuals and firms with distinct design 'voices' that have the potential to influence the disciplines of architecture, landscape architecture, and urban design."
This year's recipients – selected by jurors Sunil Bald, Mario Gooden, Lisa Gray, Paul Lewis, Jing Liu, Thomas Phifer, Bradley Samuels, Billie Tsien, and Ian Volner – are:
- Brian Bell and David Yocum, Principals, BLDGS, Atlanta, Georgia
- Eduardo Cadaval and Clara Solà-Morales, Principals, Cadaval & Solà-Morales, Mexico City and Barcelona
- Roy Decker and Anne Marie Duvall Decker, Principals, Duvall Decker Architects, Jackson, Mississippi
- Frida Escobedo, Principal, Frida Escobedo Taller de Arquitectura, Mexico City
- Chris Leong and Dominic Leong, Founding Partners, Leong Leong, New York City
- Thomas F. Robinson, Founding Principal, LEVER Architecture, Portland, Oregon
- Jonathan Tate, Principal, OJT, New Orleans, Louisiana
- David Scott and Susan Scott, Directors, Scott & Scott Architects, Vancouver, Canada
Each winner will lecture, in pairs, on Thursdays in March at the SVA Theatre in Manhattan. Visit our Agenda for more information on the lectures: BLDGS and Cadaval & Solà-Morales on 2 March; Duvall Decker Architects and Frida Escobedo Taller de Arquitectura on 9 March; Leong Leong and LEVER Architecture on 16 March; and OJT and Scott & Scott Architects on 23 March.
BLDGS: Congregation Or Hadash Synagogue, Atlanta (Photo: Frederik Brauer)
BLDG's Congregation Or Hadash Synagugoe, a conversion of an auto repair facility into a place of worship, was featured previously as a US Building of the Week, when Brian Bell and David Yocum described it as "a smarter, lighter project." Their goal was "to contribute to the architecture and symbolic content of the project, rather than to import that content from presumptions about what a synagogue should be."
Duvall Decker Architects: Midtown House (Photo: Mark Howell)
Visit Duval Decker Architects' profile on American-Architects to see more of Midtown Housing – a courtyard walk-up building with "shifted-duplex" units – and other projects by the firm based in Jackson, Mississippi.
LEVER Architecture: TreeHouse (Photo: Lara Swimmer)
LEVER Architecture's TreeHouse, a mixed-use building for the Oregon Health and Sciences University in Portland, was featured previously as a US Building of the Week. Thomas Robinson the need to address a steep and constricted campus site led him to "[place] the building as an 'in the round' object in the forest. Instead of cutting into the hill, the building form is carved to follow the landscape."