League Prize 2025 Day 1: salazarsequeromedina and 11 x 17
The first day of online presentations by winners of “Plot,” the 2025 Architectural League Prize for Young Architects + Designers.
June 11, 2025
12:30 p.m.
Left: salazarsequeromedina, Leggett & Cahuas | Sobremesas, 13th Ibero-American Biennial of Architecture and Urbanism, Lima, Peru, 2024. Image credit: Ivan Salinero. Right: 11 x 17 | Rural Shed rendering, Shanghai, China, 2024. Image credit: 11 x 17
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 first day of presentations by the winners of the 2025 League Prize will feature Laura Salazar, Pablo Sequero, and Juan Medina of salazarsequeromedina and Mahsa Malek and Alex Yueyan Li of 11 x 17.
The presentations will be followed by a moderated discussion and audience Q&A with 2025 Young Architects + Designers Committee member Miles Gertler. A winner of the 2023 League Prize, Gertler co-founded the design-research office Common Accounts with Igor Bragado in 2015. He is an assistant professor at the University of Toronto John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and 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.
