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Carles Enrich Studio wins the AR Emerging Architecture Awards 2020 for their dynamic approach to heritage

2021-11-26T10:00:00-05:00

The Architectural Review has announced Carles Enrich Studio as the winner of the AR Emerging Architecture Awards 2020. The Barcelona-based practice was chosen from a shortlist of 16 young architects and designers around the world recognized as “the architectural stars of tomorrow.”

Founded in 2013, Carles Enrich Studio focuses on interventions in Catalonia’s historical landscapes. Their celebrated works include the Merola Tower in Puig-reig, which saw a 13th-century stone tower reactivated by a contemporary timber structure. The firm’s previous accolades include nominations for the EU Mies Award in 2017 and 2019 and participation in the 2012 and 2016 Venice Biennale.

The 16 shortlisted firms for the 2020 awards were published in October of last year.

The award judges, which included previous Emerging Architecture alumni Manuel Aires Mateus, Sameep Padora, and Maria Smith, commended Carles Enrich Studio for reconnecting history with the future and for viewing heritage as infrastructu...

Winning designs for the City of LA's Low-Rise Design Challenge explore new opportunities for housing through research and community engagement

2021-05-17T19:46:00-04:00

To improve and explore housing solutions in the city of Los Angeles, Mayor Eric Garcetti and the Chief Design Officer for the City of Los Angeles, Christopher Hawthorne, organized the "Low-Rise: Housing Ideas for Los Angeles." While the design challenge is "not a competition" in the traditional sense, explains its organizers, "this design challenge is part of a larger research initiative [...] to explore new paths to homeownership and new models of affordability in low-rise neighborhoods across Los Angeles."

In support from sponsors and partners such as the James Irvine Foundation and Urban Institute, to name a few, Low-Rise offers an expanded version of housing discourse for the city. What makes this particular challenge different is by "engaging community experts in housing and asking them, in a series of listening sessions organized by theme, how they and their fellow residents would like to see their neighborhoods evolve," shares Low-Rise in their design challenge overview. The ...

Germane Barnes, Phoebe Lickwar, Mireille Roddier and Keith Mitnick among winners of 2021-2022 American Academy Rome Prize Winners

2021-04-23T20:19:00-04:00

Covering eleven disciplines ranging from architecture to preservation and conservation, the American Academy in Rome presents the 2021-22 Rome Prize and Italian Fellowships to thirty-five American and five Italian artists and scholars. The prizes help support the independent work and research of individuals within the arts and humanities. Each award recipient receives a stipend, workspace, in addition to room and board at the American Academy's campus in Rome set to start in September 2021.

Prize winners are selected annually by an independent jury. This year the Rome Prize Competition received a total of 874 applications from 46 US states and 22 countries. To date, this group of Rome Prize winners "is the most diverse in the Academy's history" shares the institution. The American Academy Rome President Mark Robbins congratulates this year's winners in a statement. "We welcome these Rome Prize winners and Italian Fellows who enter an increasingly global and diverse residential commu...

The 2019 AR Emerging Architecture Award goes to Comunal Taller de Arquitectura of Mexico

2019-12-06T19:03:00-05:00

With 16 architects announced as shortlist winners back in October, the Architectural Review has announced Comunal Taller de Arquitectura as the winner of Architectural Review's 2019 Emerging Architecture Award.

The Mexico-based architecture firm was applauded for a project submission that focused on their community-driven work within the rural village of Tepetzintán in Mexico. According to this year's AR judging panel, the practice was recognized for its "fight against a political lobby that is vastly supportive of replicable, commercial housing development over housing seen as a human right."

Comunal Taller de Arquitectura recieving the award for 2019 AR Emerging Architect Award. Image courtesy of WAF via/Twitter

Founded in 2015 in Mexico City by Mariana Ordóñez Grajales, who was later joined by Jesica Amescua Carrera, Comunal Taller de Arquitectura focuses on building in Mexico's rural and indigenous communities. The duo explained to AR during an interview that "architecture is n...