NAMELESS
Architectural League Prize 2011
Recorded: June 22, 2011
Running Time: 22:29

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Unchung Na and Sorae Yoo are principals of NAMELESS with offices in New York and Seoul. Committed to “the simplicity on the unpredictable world,” the firm’s recent projects include an ice pavilion in Winnipeg, Canada, collective housing in Tokyo, and an auditorium in Gyeonggi, Korea. In 2011, the firm was awarded an AIA New York Unbuilt Work Merit Award, and in 2010, it was awarded the Boston Society of Architects Award for Design Excellence.  The firm won first prize in the 2009 Seoul Museum of History Landmark design competition.

Na and Yoo both hold M.Arch degrees from the University of California, Berkeley. Na received his B.Eng in Architecture from Hongik University. Yoo received her B.Eng in Architecture from Korea University. They are both currently teaching at Hongik University in Korea.

form-ula
Architectural League Prize 2011
Recorded: June 22, 2011
Running Time: 30:12

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Ajmal Aqtash, Richard Sarrach, andTamaki Uchikawa founded form-ula in 2009 in New York City.  The firm is a multidisciplinary design practice that seeks to understand the intersection of design and engineering and its collaborative possibilities to produce culturally rich and high performance architecture for large and small scale projects Work includes Arch XXX, an art installation in Chicago; F.A.T. (face lift) in New York; and Clay Sutures: The Flats, an apartment complex in Louisville, KY.  The three are also co-founders of core.form-ula,  the research and development wing of form-ula, which seeks to capture cultural content related to design, engineering, science, technology, and art and organize it into an on-line repository.

Aqtash is currently an Adjunct Professor at Pratt Institute School of Architecture and is Research Director at the Center for Experimental Structures (CES). Additionally, he serves as the Creative Art Director for Milgo-Bufkin’s Design Series.  Sarrach is Director of Digital Futures and an Adjunct Assistant Professor of Architecture in the Pratt Institute Undergraduate School of Architecture.  Aqtash, Sarrach, and Uchikawa each received a B.Arch from Pratt Institute School of Architecture and a MsAAD from the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation at Columbia University.

William O’Brien Jr.
Architectural League Prize 2011
Recorded: June 22, 2011
Running Time: 22:10

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William O’Brien Jr. is Assistant Professor of Architecture at the MIT School of Architecture and Planning and is principal of an independent design practice in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Last year his practice was a finalist for the MoMA/P.S.1 Young Architects Program, for which the firm designed an installation, “Weathers Permitting | A Field Guide to Transitional Environments.” More recently his work was recognized as an inaugural winner of the Design Biennial Boston Award. Projects include Allandale House in the Mountain West, Cog House, and Twins, a pair of houses in upstate New York.  He has been selected as a Socrates Fellow by the Aspen Institute and was named a MacDowell Fellow by the MacDowell Colony. His recent publications include the essays, “Approaching Irreducible Formations” in ACADIA re:Form, and “Experts in Expediency” in Log.

O’Brien received his M.Arch at Harvard University where he was the recipient of the Faculty Design Award and studied at Hobart College for his undergraduate degree in architecture and music theory.

Future Cities Lab
Architectural League Prize 2011
Recorded: June 15, 2011
Running Time: 25:29

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Future Cities Lab is an experimental design and research office based in San Francisco, California and Athens, Greece. Design principals Jason Kelly Johnson and Nataly Gattegno have collaborated on a range of projects exploring the intersections of design with advanced fabrication technologies, robotics, responsive building systems, and public space. Most recently they were the 2008-09 Muschenheim and Oberdick Fellows at the University of Michigan Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning, the 2009 New York Prize Fellows at the Van Alen Institute in New York City, and exhibited work at the 2009-10 Hong Kong/Shenzhen Biennale, the Extension Gallery in Chicago, and the Museum of Craft and Design in San Francisco.

Jason Kelly Johnson received his M.Arch from Princeton University, and his B.S. from the University of Virginia.  Nataly Gattegno received her M.Arch from Princeton University, and a M.A. from Cambridge University, St. John’s College, UK.  They currently teach at California College of the Arts and the University of California, Berkeley, as well as workshops including the Architectural Association Global Summer Program Biodynamic Structures and Hydra-Cities Lab in Athens, Greece.

Alibi Studio
Architectural League Prize 2011
Recorded: June 15, 2011
Running Time: 32:52

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Catie Newell is a founding partner of Alibi Studio based in Detroit. Her work captures spaces and material effects, focusing on the development of new atmospheres through the exploration of textures, volumes, and the effects of light, or lack thereof. Newell’s most recent work and research is reflected in the installations completed in 2010: “Weatherizing,” and “Salvaged Landscape.” This work emphasized material and assembly logic research within the potent context of Detroit.  In 2006, she was awarded the SOM Prize for Architecture, Design and Urban Design with her project “Weather Permitting.”

Newell is currently an Assistant Professor of Architecture at the University of Michigan’s Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning, joining in 2009 as the Oberdick Fellow. She received her M.Arch from Rice University and a B.S. in architecture from Georgia Tech.

Kiel Moe
Architectural League Prize 2011
Recorded: June 15, 2011
Running Time: 21:49

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Kiel Moe is a registered architect and an Assistant Professor of Architectural Technology at Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design. He maintains a design-build practice for smaller, research-driven projects that test certain propositions about architecture. Moe also consults with larger offices on integrated design strategies for projects at a range of building scales, types, and climates based on his research. His research focuses on the theories, techniques, and technologies of converged material and energy systems for higher-performance buildings. He is the author of Integrated Design in Contemporary Architecture and Thermally Active Surfaces in Architecture, both from Princeton Architectural Press. He was awarded the 2009-10 Gorham P. Stevens Rome Prize in Architecture and is a Fellow of the American Academy in Rome. He recently received the 2011 AIA Young Architects Award.

Moe received his B.Arch from the University of Cincinnati, his M.Arch from the University of Virginia, and his M.DesS in Design and Environmental Studies from the Harvard University Graduate School of Design Advanced Studies Program.