Emerging Voices 2015

Gabriela Etchegaray and Jorge Ambrosi seek an architecture connected to nature, with the presence of earth, gravity, and light.

Aranda\Lasch experiments with geometry and innovative building practices through objects, furniture, installations, buildings, and landscapes.

Alejandro Guerrero and Andrea Soto see their practice as a way of thinking about the discipline in which history, theory, and criticism are present in the architectural project.

Cervantes sees his firm as part of a generation of architects that are late heirs to Mexican Modernism and traditions of the first pre-Hispanic settlements.

Philadelphia-based ISA brings innovative design with a strong environmental agenda to urban environments.

The Mediated Matter Group at the MIT Media Lab is concerned with “nature-inspired design and design-inspired nature.”

Elizabeth Whittaker combines digital fabrication and the hand-made to residential, commercial, institutional, retail, furniture, and graphic design.

Studio Roberto Rovira is committed to a process of design development, analysis, and investigation that seeks larger connections to ecology, patterns, history, and time.

The firm manipulates light and shadows in forms that marry the present to the past.

March 5, 2015 | Benjamin Aranda and Chris Lasch | Blending history and storytelling with design driven by computation, Aranda\Lasch’s projects often grow from one repeated module.

With deep appreciation for local craftsmanship, ATELIER ARS° reinterprets modernist typologies in a contemporary language.

March 5, 2015 | Drawing from a heritage of Mexican modernism, CC ARQUITECTOS finds opportunity in constraints and “minimizing complexity.”

With “radical pragmatism,” ISA brings contemporary design with an economy of means to urban infill.

March 19, 2015 | Elizabeth Whittaker | Finding “invention in the ordinary,” Merge Architects moves between digital fabrication and the handmade.

March 12, 2015 | Roberto Rovira | Moments of collision between the built and natural world offer opportunity for Studio Roberto Rovira’s ecologically focused practice.

Emerging Voices winners discuss constraint, minimalism, and how to "client-proof" a building.

Two 2015 Emerging Voices were joined by prominent architects, critics, and others in the field to discuss defining a designer's agenda and why pragmatism is fun.

Two 2015 Emerging Voices were joined by prominent architects, critics, and others in the field to explore the material aesthetic of the handmade and "finding the project within the project."

Two 2015 Emerging Voices were joined by prominent architects, critics, and others in the field to discuss material innovation and building "with the least noise possible."

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