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Win tickets to Beaux Arts Ball 2024: HEAT

2024-09-10T18:40:00-04:00

Next Friday, September 20th, the Architectural League of New York is hosting its annual Beaux Arts Ball. This year’s event will be themed HEAT and examine the challenges that climate change imposes on the built environment as its subject, asking those in attendance to imagine a better future relative to how the current "foundation of extractivism, carbonization, anthropocentrism, and technocracy are put under increasing pressure."

The event takes place inside the Turbine Hall of the new Herzog & de Meuron-restored Powerhouse Arts venue in Brooklyn beginning at 9:00 PM. The space will feature a special installation piece related to the theme designed by Olalekan Jeyifous, lighting design by Joel Fitzpatrick Studio, and a live set from DJ Tara. Be sure to dress festively and prepare to dance the night away!

Thanks to The Architectural League, Archinect is giving away five party tickets to five of our readers.

For a chance to win a ticket, leave a comment below naming your favorite rec...

Win tickets to Beaux Arts Ball 2023: SEA CHANGE

2023-09-18T13:32:00-04:00

It's that time of the year again as the Architectural League of New York prepares to host its big annual Beaux Arts Ball on Friday, September 29. This year's festivities are organized under the 2023 theme of SEA CHANGE, which the League describes as a "call to collective action" to celebrate "circularity, reinvention, and the interdependence of planetary ecosystems and the built environment."

Brooklyn Navy Yard will host the Ball again, featuring an immersive installation by local studio CO Adaptive and lighting design by Joel Fitzpatrick and Ken Farmer. DJ Lina will keep the dancefloor packed and rumps shaking.

Thanks to The Architectural League, Archinect is giving away five tickets to five of our readers!

For a chance to win a ticket, leave a comment below naming your favorite recent architectural project, social movement, or technological innovation that truly represents a sea change, and briefly describe why you chose it. Only your first comment will count. Each winner will rec...

'I Would Prefer Not To' looks at refused commissions, the decisions behind them, and their impact on architecture

2023-08-30T17:38:00-04:00

The second season of The Architectural League of New York’s new interview series I Would Prefer Not To is gaining popularity thanks to its ability to shed light on an overlooked area of architectural practice.

A cross-collaboration between the League and MIT's Critical Broadcasting Lab, the series explores the topic of commissioning and the refusal of architects to work with a particular client.

Guests, including Tod Williams and Billie Tsien, speak in detail about the nature of refusals, which The Architectural League argues constitutes a permanent part of architectural history. The stories they share touch on key aspects such as ethics and professional practice, decision-making, business development, the tug-of-war over visions for a project, clashes of creativity, and more.

“Decisions to refuse a commission, or withdraw from one, by definition, stay hidden from public scrutiny, and thus also hidden from architectural history,” The Architectural League notes. “Withdrawals of thi...

The Architectural League of New York appoints Jacob R. Moore as its new Executive Director

2023-06-15T11:49:00-04:00

The Architectural League of New York has named Jacob R. Moore as its next Executive Director, following a thorough national search. Moore succeeds Rosalie Genevro, who announced her decision to step down last year after leading the organization for nearly 40 years.

“Jacob brings tremendous passion and a deep knowledge of the most important forces and issues impacting the built environment today,” said Mario Gooden, President of The League’s board of directors. “His vision for the future of The League and his commitment to equity, spatial justice, and the environment make him the ideal person to shape our next chapter.”

Moore will assume the position after most recently serving as the Associate Director of the Temple Hoyne Buell Center for the Study of American Architecture at Columbia University’s GSAPP. While at the Buell Center, he led the design, development, and execution of a range of public programs with a focus on the built environment, climate change, and social justice. S...

The Architectural League of New York seeks its next Executive Director

2023-04-12T12:33:00-04:00

Following last week’s look at an opening for a Senior Planner at the City of Tacoma, we are using this week’s edition of our Job Highlights series to explore an open position on Archinect Jobs for the Executive Director of The Architectural League of New York.

The role calls for an individual with a “breadth and depth of knowledge and passion for architecture and the interdisciplinary fields of the built environment” to lead the organization. Among the responsibilities for the role will be to provide “strategic clarity” for the organization’s future development, and oversee the organization’s financial and revenue growth.

Why the role interests us

The League’s search for a new Executive Director was triggered in September 2022 after Rosalie Genevro stepped down from the role after 37 years. Among the initiatives she is credited with developing are the League’s award-winning Urban O...

Rosalie Genevro steps down as The Arch League's Executive Director after 37 years

2022-09-23T14:35:00-04:00

A change has come to one of the industry’s oldest professional associations after The Architectural League of New York's Executive Director Rosalie Genevro announced on September 22 that she will be stepping down from the organization after more than 37 years in her post.

Genevro says she will depart next year to focus on a slate of issues connected to climate change and the construction industry. Since beginning her tenure in 1985, the League has vastly expanded its influential program to account for the onset of the digital age and radical changes in the broader currents of architecture as a professional enterprise, social endeavor, and field of academic study.

Among the initiatives she is credited with developing are the League’s award-winning Urban Omnibus publication, the Emerging Voices and Prize for Young Architects + Designers competitions, the ...

The 2022 Architectural League Prize for Young Architects + Designers winners examine the foundations of design

2022-05-04T11:00:00-04:00

The Architectural League of New York has announced the winners of the 41st edition of its annual Prize for Young Architects + Designers portfolio competition. Each contestant is an early-career architect with no more than ten years out of a B.Arch or Master’s program. The 2022 winners now join a list of prestigious past awardees that includes names like Steven Holl and Meejin Yoon.

The theme for this year’s cycle is called “Grounding” and challenged entrants to “reflect on the substance of design’s foundations.” The League defined Grounding as a process of “making vital connections to what is already there materially, socially, and otherwise [while] contending with placeless, pervasive processes” and hoped to find an answer to a trio of questions: How do young architects tether their work and practices to the grounds upon which they design? How can designers respond to both the particularities of location and the ubiquity of global forces? And, what are intentional approaches to and...

The Architectural League of New York announces the 2022 Emerging Voices

2022-02-09T11:00:00-05:00

The Architectural League of New York has named its annual group of Emerging Voices. The competition is one of the most coveted and unique in the field of architecture and design, recognizing work that constitutes the vanguard of young professionals based in North America.

Every year since 1982, the organization has selected eight emerging practices based on a competitive portfolio competition. Past winners have included luminaries like Steven Holl, Enrique Norten, and Tatiana Bilbao. Each Voice is said to represent the future of architectural practice as seen in their designs’ potential to address large-scale issues and cast influence across multiple architectural disciplines. The jury reviews only realized work on an invite-only basis.

This year’s field represents the changing dynamics happening in the spheres of research, education, and public design as embodied by the work of MIT Future Heritage Lab founder Azra Akšamija and new UNC Charlotte Master of Urban Design director Seko...

The Architectural League announces 2022 Independent Projects Partnership with the New York State Council on the Arts

2021-10-20T12:15:00-04:00

The Architectural League of New York has announced a new pilot partnership with New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA) that will help extend the latter’s Architecture + Design Independent Projects program as we approach the new year.

The grantmaking partnership will create opportunities for independent designers based in New York to “creatively explore or research an issue or problem in design fields, including architecture, landscape architecture, historic preservation, community-centered design, fashion, graphic, industrial, and interior design.”

Eighteen grantees in total will be awarded through the League following an application process that selects applications demonstrating a unique ability to “advance the design disciplines and contribute to a broader understanding of design, with an emphasis on artistry and design excellence.”

The grants will provide $10,000 for each project. Applications are due by early 2022. More information about the NYSCA program, including eligibi...

Walter Hood, a 'contemporary prophet of landscape and public space,' is awarded the Architectural League 2021 President's Medal

2021-08-04T09:00:00-04:00

There is much to reflect on when thinking of Walter Hood's illustrious career. Hood started his design practice in 1992 after he graduated from UC Berkley where he received his Master's in Landscape Architecture. Since then, his commitment to merging architecture, art, and urbanism has led him to become one of the most prolific landscape architects for social change and spatial equity.

Early this July, Archinect contributing writer Rukshan Vathupola conducted an in-depth interview with Hood. In his piece, Othering Blackness in Design: Reflections with Walter Hood, Vathupola crafted a discussion that highlighted Hood not only as a practitioner but as an individual who challenges the perception of landscape architecture, design, and urbanism as a cultural practice.

View overlooking the Walter Hood-designed New de Young Museum gardens in Golden Gate Park, San Francisco. Image taken from the 9th-floor observation deck. Image © Mandy Sui Ta via Instagram/Courtesy of @deyoungmuseum

The hi...

The 'Housekeeping' winners of the 2021 Architectural League Prize for Young Architects + Designers

2021-05-12T14:37:00-04:00

The Architectural League of New York this morning unveiled the winners of its annual portfolio competition, the Architectural League Prize for Young Architects + Designers. Established in 1981, and now celebrating its 40th cycle, the program aims to promote excellence among early-career architects and designers who are no more than ten years out of a bachelor’s or master’s degree program.

Under the 2021 competition theme of "Housekeeping," the brief asked entrants to contemplate how "stay-at-home orders have prompted many of us to see our domestic settings anew, and to consider the various ways in which we 'keep house.'"

This year's winners from the U.S., Mexico, and Canada are:

Tei Carpenter of Agency—Agency, New York, NY and Toronto, Canada

New Public Hydrant, "Hydrants for All," New York, NY, 2018–ongoing. Tei Carpenter, Agency—Agency. Tei Carpenter/Chris Woebken.

Rodrigo Escandón Cesarman and Ricardo Roxo Matias of APRDELESP, Mexico City, Mexico

Case Study 67 (Material Art Fair 2...

The Architectural League of New York announces the 2021 Emerging Voices

2021-02-17T13:24:00-05:00

The Architectural League of New York's Emerging Voices awards highlights the work of emerging practices through its portfolio competition. Since 1982, the awards have helped launch the careers of more than 200 North America-based architects. Past winners include Toshiko Mori, Tatiana Bilbao, Enrique Norten, Casper Mork-Ulnes, Miriam Peterson, Nathan Rich, Olalekan Jeyifous, Mimi Hoang, Rosalyn Shieh, and many others.

The invite-only, two-stage review from approximately 50 entrants brings together these best of the best in design. "The award spotlights individuals and firms based in the United States, Canada, and Mexico with distinct design voices and the potential to influence the disciplines of architecture, landscape design, and urbanism. The jury reviews significant bodies of realized work and considers accomplishments within the design and academic communities as well as the public realm."

The 2021 Emerging Voices are:

Pascale Sablan
Beyond the Built Environment, New York, NY

SAY...

Expanding the definition of universal design in a post-COVID world

2020-06-19T17:34:00-04:00

Rather than respond with temporary barriers or signs, [Joel] Sanders is trying to use MIX’s research process to arrive at designs that minimize the spread of the coronavirus and appeal to diverse users. This, he hopes, will result in buildings that endure, whether or not a vaccine becomes available.

Writing in The New York Times Magazine, journalist Kim Tingley takes a long look at the ways in which the design of everyday and communal spaces might shift to become more universally accessible following the COVID-19 pandemic.

The article engages with emerging design ideas resulting from new social distancing guidelines and includes perspectives from Joel Sanders of Joel Sanders Architect, Vishaan Chakrabarti of PAU, Mabel O. Wilson of Columbia University, Rosalie Genevro of the Architectural League of New York, and Deborah Berke of Yale University, among others.

Architectural League of New York names ten editorial teams to investigate overlooked American regions

2020-04-30T20:03:00-04:00

The Architectural League of New York has named ten editorial teams that it has commissioned to document a collection of “small to mid-size communities from across the United States” in an effort to “bring together on-the-ground perspectives on the condition of American communities and what they need to thrive going forward.”

The group’s American Roundtable initiative will “give voice to local places to envision a better, collective future,” according to architect Paul Lewis, Architectural League President.

A press release highlighting the initiative states, “Communities across America are being transformed by changing economic drivers; new patterns of mobility; legacies of environmental, racial, class, and spatial injustice; volatile and vitriolic politics coupled with chronic short-termism and near-sightedness; the impacts of climate change; and other forces. Yet our understanding of these small and mid-size communities is often reduced to caricature and oversimplification.”

The ...

The Architectural League announces the 2020 Emerging Voices

2020-02-05T11:00:00-05:00

Being named an Emerging Voice is considered a big honor. Since 1982, The Architectural League of New York's reputable portfolio competition has helped launch the careers of over 250 North America-based architects, many whose names are now well known, like Steven Holl, Morphosis, Toshiko Mori, Deborah Berke, Jeanne Gang, Tatiana Bilbao, Enrique Norten, Marion Weiss and Michael Manfredi, and many more.

The two-stage, invite-only competition distinguishes eight mid-career practices and individuals who not only have distinct design voices, but also demonstrate strong potential to influence the disciplines of architecture, landscape design, and urbanism.

Receiving submissions from approximately 50 firms, the jury reviewed significant bodies of built work, how the work addresses issues in the built environment and landscape, and accomplishments within design, academia, and the public realm. The 2020 Emerging Voices are:

Marc Blouin, Catherine Orzes
Blouin Orzes architectes | Montreal, Que...

Win tickets to Beaux Arts Ball 2019: WAVE

2019-09-25T12:29:00-04:00

The Architectural League of New York is ready to kick off the 2019 Beaux Arts Ball: WAVE, a yearly benefit party that supports their programs. Continuing their multi-year residency exploring the Brooklyn Navy Yard, the Ball takes place this Friday, September 27 at the Shed 269 building, which was used as a subassembly unit and is currently part of Agger Fish Corp.

Thanks to The Architectural League, Archinect is giving away five tickets to five of our readers!

From First Wave to Nouvelle Vague to New Wave, this year's theme celebrates and reflects on these pivotal cultural movements throughout history.

For a chance to win a ticket, leave a comment below naming your favorite design or architectural "wave" movement and why you chose it. Only your first comment will count. Each winner will receive one ticket. Deadline is this Friday, September 27 at noon, Eastern Time.

Attendees to this year's Ball will get to enjoy an evening of festivities amid an original, immersive installation in...

The Architectural League announces Beaux Arts Ball 2019: WAVE

2019-09-11T11:13:00-04:00

This post is brought to you by The Architectural League of NY

The Architectural League of New York will hold its annual Beaux Arts Ball on Friday, September 27, 2019. Continuing their multi-year residency exploring the Brooklyn Navy Yard, the Ball will take place at Shed 269, a vast former submarine assembly building, currently part of Agger Fish Corp.

First Wave, Nouvelle Vague, Third Wave, Next Wave, New Wave, No Wave. Waves have long been used as metaphors for movements and cohorts that mark moments in culture. The Architectural League Beaux Arts Ball 2019: WAVE will celebrate these generative and transformative forces of waves. The League has commissioned 2017 League Prize winners Greg Corso and Molly Hunker of SPORTS to design Ceiling Unlimited. The "fluid and dynamic" installation along with lighting designed by Ken Farmer of Wild Dogs International will create an original, immersive environment in response to this year’s theme.

Since the League’s revival of the event in 1990,...

Win 2 tickets to Beaux Arts Ball 2018: Vector

2018-09-17T14:21:00-04:00

The Architectural League of New York is getting ready to host this year's Beaux Arts Ball, a benefit for their programs taking place September 28 at the Brooklyn Navy Yard. Attendees will enjoy a night of festivities around the site-specific installation, 16 Salt Tarps, Half Red Half White, a response to this year’s theme and the Navy Yard’s history by Landing Studio.

Thanks to The Architectural League, Archinect is giving away two pairs of tickets to three of our readers!

This year’s theme, Vector, celebrates the flow of ideas, goods, and people through global networks of communication and exchange. For a chance to win, follow us on instagram @archinect and leave the #BeauxArtsBall18 hashtag in the comment section of an image on our account that best represents this year's Vector theme by Friday, September 21st, 12 PM EST.

Only your first comment will count. Three winners will be announced next Monday, September 24. Best of luck!

Tickets start at $100. 21+ only. Festive attire...

Bryony Roberts Studio riffs on the geometries of the original gallery flooring for 2018 League Prize Exhibition

2018-06-18T13:52:00-04:00

On Thursday, the Architectural League of New York will open up their annual exhibition featuring work from the six League Prize winners for this year. Honoring designers ten years or less out of school, the prestigious award has become highly sought after by promising young practitioners hoping to join the ranks of Steven Holl, Billie Tsien, Rick Joy and Neil Denari, all of whom received the award long before becoming recognizable names in the architecture world.

This years theme was Objective, asking entrants to respond to the prompt: How do we define or understand architecture in a post-truth world? Byrony Roberts, a 2018 League Prize recipient and founder of the New York-based design and research practice that shares her name, has decided to approach the question by building off her work that seeks to occupy, re-enact, and re-vision historically charged spaces.

Image Courtesy Bryony Roberts Studio.

"Assuming that we don’t have an objective, scientific, absolute understanding of ...

The Architectural League rescinds Richard Meier's Life Trustee status

2018-04-11T14:18:00-04:00

This is a painful period of reckoning for our community. While we don’t presume to have all the answers, we believe achieving a more just and accountable professional culture moving forward begins with open dialogue and, above all, an unwavering commitment to respecting the human rights of all individuals.

In a statement published on Architect Magazine yesterday, The Architectural League of New York announced that they have revoked Richard Meier's status as a Life Trustee of the League, a month after the architect was accused of sexual harassment by multiple women. In the following weeks after news of the allegations broke, Cornell University's College of Architecture, Art, and Planning refused Meier's gift to name the chair of the Department of Architecture; Sotheby's closed a solo exhibition of Meier's work at its S2 Gallery; and the AIANY rescinded Meier's 2018 Design Award.

“As we confront allegations of abuses of power in architecture, the League is developing programs and resources to move our community forward to make the goal of equitable, fair, empowering environments a reality across the culture of architecture,” the Architectural League stated. “We also, in specific instances, must make decisions with respect to individuals whose behavior does not meet the standards we bel...

Queer Spaces, Intersections, LGBT Historic Sites: Urban Omnibus launches new series

2018-02-22T14:32:00-05:00

As designers and urbanists engage with LGBTQ+ identity, what role do gender and sexuality play in the preservation, design, and management of urban space today? [...] Marginalization means invisibility, both in history and space. New efforts seek to reclaim and preserve queer histories inscribed in sites across the city.

Urban Omnibus, a publication of the Architectural League of New York, recently launched its new series Intersections: Surfacing (guest-edited by Jacob R. Moore), allowing a more informed look at issues of gender and sexuality in the context of design & urban history.

Win 2 tickets to Beaux Arts Ball 2017: Alchemy

2017-09-14T09:00:00-04:00

The Architectural League of New York is getting ready to kick off another eventful Beaux Arts Ball, taking place September 22nd at Building 28 in Brooklyn's Navy Yard. Attendees will get to mingle with fellow designers and friends, listen to music spun by DJay Jung while illuminated by lighting from Joel Fitzpatrick Studios, and see site-specific installations by Brett H. Schneider and Lizzie Hodges.

Thanks to The Architectural League, Archinect is giving away two pairs of tickets to two of our readers!

This year’s theme, Alchemy, celebrates the transformation from one state to another, the quicksilver act of creation: dockyards into an innovation hub; concrete, steel, and wood into the world we live in. For a chance to win, respond to the following prompt in the comment section below by Friday, September 15th, 12 PM EST: Name your favorite instance of adaptive re-use in architecture this year.

Only your first comment will count. Two winners will be announced next Monday, September...

The Architectural League's Beaux Arts Ball 2017: Alchemy

2017-09-10T09:00:00-04:00

This post is brought to you by The Architectural League

Join friends and colleagues for Alchemy, the 2017 Architectural League Beaux Arts Ball taking place at Building 28 in Brooklyn’s Navy Yard. This year’s theme celebrates the transformation from one state to another, the quicksilver act of creation: dockyards into an innovation hub; concrete, steel, and wood into the world we live in. Responding to this year’s theme, Brett H. Schneider and Lizzie Hodges have designed UNPACKING, a site-specific installation that will stretch along 400 feet of the building’s interior to create “soft rooms” for the Ball’s patrons.

Learn more about this year's event and how to purchase tickets.

Since The Architectural League revived the event in 1990, the Beaux Arts Ball has become the premier annual party of the architecture and design community in the city with over 1,000 architects, designers, artists and their friends attending. The League identifies a distinctive architecturally significant v...

The Aga Khan to receive the 2017 Architectural League President's Medal

2017-05-15T21:05:00-04:00

The Architectural League of New York awarded their 2017 President's Medal to the honorable Aga Khan, the League revealed in an announcement today. The President's Medal is the League's highest accolade bestowed to an individual in recognition of a distinct body of work in architecture, urbanism, art, or design.

Architectural League President Billie Tsien will present the award to the honorable Aga Khan during a dinner on May 18 in New York.

The Medal's notable roster of recipients include Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown, Tod Williams and Billie Tsien, Ada Louise Huxtable, Richard Meier, Amanda M. Burden, Renzo Piano, Henry N. Cobb, artist Richard Serra, and former New York mayor Michael Bloomberg, among others.

Learn more on Bustler.

Announcing the 2017 winners of the Architectural League Prize for Young Architects + Designers!

2017-04-26T14:51:00-04:00

Six talented winners were revealed today for the 2017 Architectural League Prize for Young Architects + Designers. Established in 1981 by the Architectural League of New York, the Prize carries a legacy in that many now-well-known architects received the award at the start of their careers, like Steven Holl, Billie Tsien, Stan Allen, Shih-Fu Peng & Roisin Heneghan, J. Meejin Yoon, James Slade & Minsuk Cho, and several more.

Open to North America-based designers who are no more than 10 years out of school, the juried portfolio competition had “Support” as its 2017 theme. Support “identified a present situation in which precarious forms and precarious social arrangements exist side by side. How does one clarify the modes of support in architecture today when the discipline’s role is obscured by a tangled network in which exchanges between built form and various systems of framing, assistance, and reinforcement are constantly in flux?”

Here are the winners!

Greg Corso and Molly Hunker - S...

Eva Jensen to design 2017 Folly Function installation at Socrates Sculpture Park

2017-03-27T17:09:00-04:00

Eva Jensen Design + Laufs Engineering Design's “Circle Shade - 2πR4” was announced today as the winning proposal for this year's Folly Function installation at Socrates Sculpture Park in Long Island City. This year's challenge asked entrants to design four portable and deployable canopy structures for flexible use throughout the Park. In response, the Eva Jensen team used the circle to form their design, Circle Shade - 2πR4...

New York-based Eva Jensen Design is now among the Folly Function winners to design the summer installation at Socrates Sculpture Park. Recent winners include Hou de Sousa, IK Studio, and Austin+Mergold.

Learn more about Eva Jensen's winning design on Bustler.

The Emerging Voices winners for 2017

2017-01-25T20:34:00-05:00

Launched in 1982, the [Architectural League of New York's] reputable Emerging Voices program helped propel the careers of more than 250 North America-based architects, many whose names are well known today, like Steven Holl, Morphosis, Toshiko Mori, Deborah Berke, Enrique Norten, Jeanne Gang, and Tatiana Bilbao.

The invite-only portfolio competition recognizes distinctive architects and designers coming to the forefront of contemporary architectural design and research. The jury evaluates each candidate's significant bodies of realized work and how the work addresses larger issues in the built environment and landscape.

Here are the 2017 Emerging Voices. Perhaps you already recognize some of them.

Brian Bell and David Yocum
BLDGS | Atlanta, Georgia ↓

Eduardo Cadaval and Clara Solà-Morales
Cadaval & Solà-Morales | Mexico City and Barcelona ↓

Roy Decker and Anne Marie Duvall Decker
Duvall Decker Architects | Jackson, Mississippi ↓

Frida Escobedo
Frida Escobedo, Taller de Arquitectura | Mexico City ↓

Chris Leong and Dominic Leong
Leong Leong | New York City ↓

Thomas F. Robinson
LEVER Architecture | Portland, Oregon ↓

Jonathan Tate
OJT | New Orleans, Louisiana ↓

David Scott and Susan Scott
Scott & Scott Architects | Vancouver, Canada ↓

You can find more details on Bustler.

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A fresh start at the Arch League's 2016 Beaux Arts Ball

2016-10-04T21:03:00-04:00

The Architectural League started another cultural year on a high note at the 2016 Beaux Arts Ball, which took place at the new nARCHITECTS-designed A/D/O space in Greenpoint, Brooklyn last Friday. Co-chaired by architects Calvin Tsao and Zack McKown, this year's “Tabula Rasa” theme was all about celebrating creativity in progress, the act of fresh-thinking, and New York's ceaseless reinvention. Here are some photos from the event:

Over 1,200 architects, designers, and friends showed up to the yearly party. In tandem with the Tabula Rasa theme, guests got a good look inside the 23,000 square-foot still-in-progress A/D/O industrial space and were surrounded by natural stone slabs from ABC Worldwide Stone. Chef Fredrik Berselius of the acclaimed Nordic-inspired restaurant Aska curated a menu of light fare.

“Table's Clear” designed by Ultramoderne.

Ultramoderne designed a site-specific “floating tabula rasa” installation called “Table's Clear” for the party. “The lightweight fabric hangs i...

Win 2 tickets to Beaux Arts Ball 2016: Tabula Rasa!

2016-09-20T09:00:00-04:00

The Architectural League of New York is getting ready to kick off another eventful Beaux Arts Ball 2016: Tabula Rasa, taking place on September 30 at the new nARCHITECTS-designed A/D/O space in Greenpoint, Brooklyn. Co-chaired by Calvin Tsao and Zack McKown, this year's Tabula Rasa theme is all about celebrating creativity in progress, the act of fresh-thinking, and New York's ceaseless reinvention.

Attendees will get to mingle with fellow designers and friends, see site-specific installations from Ultramoderne and Wild Dogs International, and enjoy a menu of light fare by Fredrik Berselius of Aska.

Thanks to The Architectural League, Archinect is giving away two pairs of tickets to two of our readers!

For a chance to win, respond to the following question in the comment section below by Friday, September 23, 12 p.m. Eastern Time: Name your favorite instance of fresh-thinking and innovation in architecture this year (a project, research, an award recipient, etc.).

Only your first comm...

Beaux Arts Ball 2016: Tabula Rasa

2016-09-08T13:43:00-04:00

This post is brought to you by The Architectural League.

Join friends and colleagues for Tabula Rasa, the 2016 Architectural League Beaux Arts Ball taking place at A/D/O, a new design space in Greenpoint, Brooklyn. This year’s theme celebrates the creative act of fresh thinking and innovation and New York’s own ceaseless reinvention. The Ball will offer a rare inside look at the raw and in-progress 23,000 square-foot A/D/O space designed by Brooklyn-based nARCHITECTS. Responding to this year's theme, Ultramoderne will design a site-specific installation and Wild Dogs International will develop projection-mapped installations to be displayed throughout the space. Fredrik Berselius of Aska will create a menu of light fare.

Since the League’s revival of the event in 1990, the Beaux Arts Ball has become the premier annual party of the architecture and design community in New York with over 1,000 architects, designers, artists, and their friends attending. Located each year at a different...