This period can be trying and arduous, so public recognition is a huge boost for a career. Emerging Voices is important since it usually comes in the toughest time for architects, in between early recognition and more mature achievement. It is a place to connect architects, and it acts as a bridge for so many of us who otherwise would be in our isolated silos of like-minded friends or academically based caves. I rarely see an organization like the League existing anywhere else in the world. More importantly, it helped us in sharpening our focus on material research. Lecture opportunities were few and far between, so the recognition certainly helped publicize our work. At the time, we were mostly working on interior projects and exhibitions. It was an honor to be named among the Emerging Voices because the program is peer-reviewed and local-it matters that people I know and respect really value my work. The program keeps that discussion going, and though it may not get a hit in every selection, it sustains an interest in looking at the world anew. As new people come along, and they don’t acquiesce in the face of acceptable doctrines, the discourse alters. It’s not a fixed point of view, a region, or a system of advocacy. The idea of the program, in its essence, is that the discourse of architecture continues to move. It’s vital and, as many winners would say, it gives you new impetus to keep going. A number of them got built, and that support is essential in convincing the public and your clients that your work is legitimate. There was the Morganstern Warehouse, the Petal House, and some other houses and competition proposals.
We were working on several projects, while not quite knowing where they were going. It is exciting today to see the Emerging Voices program looking beyond our borders however, we must not forget our primary responsibility is to our own community.Ĭonditions were quite fragile for us at the time. While it primarily addresses local issues, it has national and international relevance and respect. The League is a crucial institution because it is the strongest bridge between architectural education and the profession. But when parched, very little water can make all the difference. Perhaps it was less than a sip of water added to one’s glass. But with so little that had been built-mostly interior projects and three modest houses-to have the League’s recognition was very important. Word of mouth is always the very best way to build up one’s career. I was aware of the League’s august history, so that, along with the quality of colleagues who were also chosen, gave the selection real weight and helped bring the work to light. And the Emerging Voices program continues to be an optimistic platform for young architects.Īt the time, I had little awareness as to what Emerging Voices might come to mean to me. Today, the League continues to be the most important cultural anchor for practicing New York architects. The award was a nice chance to put my ideas forward to the city’s architectural community. I was not really looking for a client with that project.
I remember I even asked to design the poster for the program, but Massimo Vignelli, who was a board member of the League then, didn’t like the black-and-white typewriter text I had chosen. For the Bronx Gymnasium-Bridge, all my drawings were black-and-white, the slide presentation was all black-and-white-to protest against Postmodernism. I had just arrived in New York City from San Francisco, and I was working on a few speculative proposals. I think I was in the first program, which wasn’t yet called Emerging Voices. (Read our interview with Rieselbach and the League’s executive director, Rosalie Genevro, here.) Below, several Emerging Voices alums reflect on what the award meant to them and their careers.
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Their track record is beyond dispute, with winners including Thom Mayne, Stan Allen, Tod Williams, Winka Dubbeldam, and Amale Andraos. “It’s knowing how to identify a firm at the right moment, when the arc of its practice is emerging or, just as importantly, when to hold off and wait until it has a fuller portfolio of work,” says the League’s program director, Anne Rieselbach. Hundreds of North American architects have been anointed by the League, whose directors work very hard in molding the program to contemporaneous movements, events, and concerns. Courtesy Bob Gunduįor more than 30 years, the Architectural League’s Emerging Voices awards have played an integral role in the profession through its discovery and cultivation of young talent. Pictured: The firm’s Frog’s Hollow (2009) in Ontario. In 2014, Toronto-based Williamson Chong was selected as an Emerging Voices winner, eight years after having won the League’s Young Architects Forum Competition.
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