Established in 1981 to recognize visionary work by young practitioners, The Architectural League Prize is an annual competition, lecture series, and exhibition led by the League and its Young Architects + Designers Committee.
The 2018 competition asked entrants to consider objectivity today as simultaneously elevated and undermined, in an era in which technology, science, and “post-truths” coexist. How do we define or understand architecture in a post-truth world? The theme was developed by the 2018 Young Architects + Designers Committee, which comprised past League Prize winners Neeraj Bhatia, Molly Hunker, and William O’Brien, Jr.
The jury included Bhatia, Hunker, and O’Brien, in addition to Tatiana Bilbao, Jorge Otero-Pailos, Georgeen Theodore, and Claire Weisz.
The competition is organized by The Architectural League’s program director, Anne Rieselbach.
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The Architectural League Prize receives generous support from Elise Jaffe + Jeffrey Brown, Hunter Douglas Architectural, and Tischler und Sohn. The League Prize is also supported by the Next Generation Fund, an alumni fund of The Architectural League's Emerging Voices and Architectural League Prize programs, and the J. Clawson Mills Fund of The Architectural League. Architectural League programs are supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council and the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew M. Cuomo and the New York State Legislature.
More from past League Prize winners
Understanding architectural tools
First Office explores new ways of thinking about architectural production and tools.
SPORTS lecture
League Prize winners Greg Corso and Molly Hunker discuss their design philosophy and approach.
Ecological crisis as moment of possibility
Design Earth founders El Hadi Jazairy and Rania Ghosn explain their League Prize installation.