League Prize 2025 Day 3: BALSA CROSETTO PIAZZI and David Costanza
The final day of online presentations by winners of “Plot,” the 2025 Architectural League Prize for Young Architects + Designers.
June 25, 2025
12:30 p.m.
Left: BALSA CROSETTO PIAZZI, Diego Avendaño | Quincho & House, Bialet Masse, Córdoba, Argentina, 2024. Image credit: Marcos Guiponi. Right: David Costanza | Rocker, Houston, TX, 2017. Image credit: David Costanza
Established in 1981, the Architectural League Prize for Young Architects + Designers is a biennial juried portfolio competition for early-career practitioners in North America, organized around a theme.
Every building has its lore, and plots are known to thicken. Which dramas are shaping architecture’s arc today?
The 2025 competition theme asked entrants to interrogate Plot—whether as land, drawing, or scheme—and map out the throughlines that shape their work. Composed by the 2025 Young Architects + Designers Committee, the thematic statement invited designers to “chronicle that which bookends their practices” and “demonstrate plot’s persistent role as main character.”
The final day of presentations by the winners of the 2025 League Prize will feature Juan Manuel Balsa, Rocio Crosetto Brizzio, and Leandro Piazzi of BALSA CROSETTO PIAZZI and David Costanza.
The presentations will be followed by a moderated discussion and audience Q&A with 2025 Young Architects + Designers Committee member Liz Gálvez. Gálvez directs Office e.g. and was a winner of the 2021 League Prize. She is an assistant professor of architecture at Berkeley College of Environmental Design.
Support
The Architectural League Prize is made possible by JUDLOWE, Tischler und Sohn, and Delta Millworks.
This program is supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council. Support is also provided by the Next Generation Fund, which supports the League’s investment in early-career architects and designers and provides unified support for the League Prize, Emerging Voices, and the League’s Student and Mentorship Programs, and by the J. Clawson Mills Fund of The Architectural League. League Prize public programs are made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature.
