HANNAH wins Architectural League Prize 2020
Leslie Lok and Sasa Zivkovic of HANNAH win the Architectural League Prize in 2020, one of North America’s most prestigious awards for young architects. Congratulations to our co-winners!
“May 6, 2020—The Architectural League is pleased to announce the winners of Value, the thirty-ninth cycle of the annual Architectural League Prize for Young Architects + Designers program. The League Prize, open to young architects and designers ten years or less out of an undergraduate or master’s degree program, is one of North America’s most prestigious awards. The program exemplifies the League’s longstanding commitment to identifying and nurturing the development of talented young architects and designers. This year’s winners are:
David Eskenazi of d.esk, Los Angeles, CA
Garrett Ricciardi and Julian Rose of Formlessfinder, Los Angeles, CA / New York, NY
Leslie Lok and Sasa Zivkovic of HANNAH, Ithaca, NY
Isaac Michan Daniel of Michan Architecture, Mexico City, Mexico
Ivi Diamantopoulou and Jaffer Kolb of New Affiliates, New York, NY
Luis Beltrán del Río García and Andrew Sosa Martínez of Vrtical, Mexico City, Mexico
The League Prize is an annual portfolio competition organized by The Architectural League under the direction of program director Anne Rieselbach, program manager Catarina Flaksman, and the Young Architects + Designers Committee. The committee, a group selected each year from past winners of the League Prize, is responsible for developing the program’s theme and selecting competition jurors. Members of the committee for 2020 are Kutan Ayata, Mira Henry, and Kevin Hirth. The jury consisted of this year’s Young Architects + Designers Committee in addition to Lucia Allais, Paul Lewis, Anna Puigjaner, and Nanako Umemoto.
As defined by this year’s committee, Value is a slippery construct in architecture, leading to thoughts of numbers, colors, measurement, worth, and ethics. Value can be personal or shared, analytical or sensorial. It suggests economic and aesthetic highs and lows and hints at the ideological urgencies that undergird and influence the production of architecture. In its many forms, value demonstrates a stance toward the wider world, influencing how we act, sense, imagine, and create, both collectively and individually.
In a time of political and social precariousness when all cultural value sets seem publicly permissible, this year’s Architectural League Prize competition asked entrants to consider how notions of value operate in their work. How are values mediated by the processes of design? What are the discursive contexts, forms of representation, and/or spaces of action in which these values manifest themselves?
Given the constraints of social engagement due to the COVID-19 pandemic, this year’s League Prize program will be presented entirely online. Winners will deliver streamed lectures followed by a live q&a session and will create digital installations of their work, rather than the annual exhibition in the galleries of the Sheila C. Johnson Design Center at Parsons School of Design at The New School.”
More information on the award can be found here.