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MoMA PS1 pauses the popular Young Architects Program

2019-11-26T18:58:00-05:00

After a 20-year run as the launching pad for a generation of aspiring architects and young designers, the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) and MoMA PS1-sponsored Young Architects Program (YAP) will be going on hiatus for at least one year.

Martino Stierli, Philip Johnson Chief Curator of Architecture and Design at MoMA, told The Architect's Newspaper, "Following the 20th anniversary of the Young Architects Program, MoMA and MoMA PS1 have decided to place the program on a one-year hiatus. We remain deeply committed to supporting and recognizing emerging architectural talent."

In the statement, Stierli added, “We’ve already started to use the hiatus to bring together a diverse group of influential scholars and professionals, experimental architects and designers, and previous YAP winners to assess the program’s impact for the past two decades, explore its potential, and strategically chart its future. We look forward to sharing more news as we move along in this process.”

The shift follow...

Pedro & Juana's “Hórama Rama” cyclorama opens at MoMA PS1

2019-06-28T14:15:00-04:00

After winning MoMA PS1's 2019 Young Architects Program this past March, “Hórama Rama” is now open to the public in time for summer festivities. Ana Paula Ruiz Galindo and Mecky Reuss of Mexico City-based studio Pedro & Juana designed the temporary installation as a 40-foot-high, 90-foot-wide cyclorama structure that immerses visitors into a jungle landscape.

Hórama Rama by Pedro & Juana, presented as part of the Young Architects Program 2019 at MoMA PS1. Photo: © Rafael Gamo.

Hórama Rama by Pedro & Juana, presented as part of the Young Architects Program 2019 at MoMA PS1. Image courtesy MoMA PS1. Photo: Kris Graves.

The cyclorama has a panoramic image of a jungle on scaffolding that sits above the PS1 courtyard, which reconfigures the courtyard space into an immersive environment that allows visitors to move in and out of. To add to that, the installation features a functioning, cooling waterfall and hammocks that were made in the south of Mexico. Wooden “bristles” protrude from the s...

Pedro&Juana's immersive jungle setting selected for MoMA PS1's 2019 Young Architects Program exhibition

2019-03-07T13:19:00-05:00

The Mexico City-based practice Pedro&Juana has been selected as the winner of MoMA PS1's 2019 Young Architects Program. Run by Ana Paula Ruiz Galindo & Mecky Reuss, the duo's winning entry, titled Hórama Rama, beat out proposals by fellow finalists Matter Design, TO, Oana Stănescu and Akane Moriyama, and Low Design Office.

Pedro&Juana's installation in the Chicago Cultural Center. Photo by Steve Hall, copyright Hedrich Blessing courtesy of the Chicago Architecture Biennial.

With Love From the Tropics (2016-2017) Photo: Kendall McCaugherty – Hall+Merrick Photographers, © MCA Chicago.

Known for their experimental social spaces, the emerging firm has proven consistent with projects such as Dear Randolph (2015), their distinct interior design for a lounge at the 2015 Chicago Architecture Biennial; The Natural Order of Things (2016), an exhibition display at the Jumex Museum; and With Love From The Tropics (2016-2017), an urban garden installation for the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chica...

Finalists announced for 2019 MoMA/PS1 Young Architects Program

2018-12-05T14:19:00-05:00

MoMA PS1 has announced the five finalists who will compete for the 2019 edition of its annual Young Architects Program. Challenging emerging architectural talent to develop creative proposals for a temporary summer outdoor installation, the highly coveted commission serves as a stage and shelter for the museum's seasonal Warm Up concert series. Architects are also asked to address environmental issues, including sustainability and recycling, with their installation.

To choose an architectural studio, over 100 nominators from across North America are asked to submit a young office for consideration. Previous talent tapped by the program has included SHoP Architects, Andrés Jaque/Office for Political Innovation, The Living/David Benjamin and SO-IL.

This year's finalists are as follows:

Pedro y Juana's installation in the Chicago Cultural Center. Photo by Steve Hall, copyright Hedrich Blessing courtesy of the Chicago Architecture Biennial.

Pedro & Juana
Ana Paula Ruiz Galindo and Mecky R...

Dream the Combine's 'Hide & Seek" installation to provide interactive setting for Warm Up Summer Music Series at MoMA PS1

2018-06-28T15:53:00-04:00

The eagerly-awaited, annual Warm Up series of concerts and events has launched, with an interactive setting provided by Minneapolis-based practice Dream the Combine, winners of this year’s MoMA PS1 Young Architect’s Program competition. Titled Hide & Seek, the winning installation, featuring a large-scale, network of mirrors, will activate the courtyard through September, playing host to more than 75 musical artists.

This year's construction, done in collaboration with Clayton Binkley of ARUP, features nine intersecting elements sprawled across the entire MoMA PS1 courtyard. Scriptive elements, ranging from trampolines to runways, invite visitors into performance and establish platforms for improvisation while the horizontal structures contain interactive mirrors, that move in the wind or with human touch.

Jennifer Newsom and Tom Carruthers, founders of the experimental design practice, drew their inspiration for the project from performance artist Lorraine O’Grady, whose piece “...

Jenny E. Sabin is the winner of MoMA PS1's 2017 Young Architects Program

2017-02-20T12:32:00-05:00

The Ithaca-based design practice Jenny Sabin Studio has been named the winner of the 2017 Young Architect's Program at MoMA PS1. The annual competition awards an emerging architecture firm the opportunity to design a site-specific installation in the courtyard of the Long Island City art institution. Jenny Sabin Studio beat out five other practices with her entry Lumen.

Lumen is made of responsive tubular structures in a lightweight knitted fabric. The installation will include a canopy of photoluminescent, solar active textiles, which absorb and deliver light. Lumen will also feature a misting system, satisfying the competition stipulation that the installation include water in order to help cool down visitors to the Warm Up event.

“Jenny Sabin's catalytic immersive environment, Lumen, captured the jury's attention for imaginatively merging public and private spaces," states Sean Anderson, Associate Curator in MoMA's Department of Architecture and Design. "With innovative constru...

A dinosaur, a flying saucer, a rock garden: Parasite 2.0's installation for YAP MAXXI

2016-06-28T14:14:00-04:00

Most Americans know MoMA’s Young Architect’s Program (YAP) through its annual summer festival in the MoMA PS1 courtyard in Long Island City, but they also have an impressive international program. For the Roman edition of the program, this year’s winner, studio Parasite 2.0, installed a giant green dinosaur, a neon flying saucer, and other peculiar objects in the sunlit courtyard of the Zaha Hadid-designed MAXXI Museum.

Entitled MAXXI Temporary School: the museum is a school. A school is a battleground, the installation is composed of three sets made of wood, recycled rubber and metal. One of the sets has two walls rising from a star-shaped podium accessible by a tunnel. Another comprises a rock garden, a rainbow, and the flying saucer. In the third, a dinosaur spout water alongside images of the planet Saturn and Easter Island moan.

“Fantastical settings, references from diverse cultures, fragments of nature and pop-up details providing backdrops for visitors’ thousand-like selfies: ...

Watch YAP-winners Escobedo Solíz Studio build 'Weaving the Courtyard' at MoMA PS1

2016-06-10T17:12:00-04:00

Escobedo Solíz Studio's winning "Weaving the Courtyard" proposal for the Young Architects Program, a "suspended canopy of colorful ropes", will be on display at MoMA's PS1 as part of the "Warm Up" summer series, running through August.

Watch Lazbent Escobedo and Andrés Soliz Paz discuss the process behind designing and constructing their winning proposal:

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What's the Big Deal‽ – Assemble, Serpentine and YAP winners, and BIG controversy on Archinect Sessions #52, with special guest co-host Will Galloway

2016-02-11T18:25:00-05:00

Long-time Archinector and reliably sane commentator Will Galloway joins us from his base in Tokyo to discuss the weekly news, including his interview with Assemble, crucially taking place mere weeks before they won the Turner Prize. While news from Bjarke Ingels Group commanded the feistiest comment threads this week – with renderings of BIG's spiraling Hudson Yards tower provoking debate over craft in skyscrapers, and the firm being selected to design the Serpentine Pavilion for 2016 in their last last eligible year – recent news included big wins for firms both star-studded and unknown. MoMA PS1 named Escobedo Solíz Studio as the 2016 winner of its Young Architects Program, for their "Weaving the Courtyard" submission, while Dame Zaha Hadid received her RIBA Gold Medal (the first woman to win solo). Lastly, for you planning wonks, we throw in a brief discussion of a controversial proposed ballot measure to halt big developments in Los Angeles.

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Escobedo Solíz Studio is the winner of MoMA PS1's 2016 Young Architects Program

2016-02-01T15:27:00-05:00

The Mexico-city based firm Escobedo Solíz Studio, founded in 2011 by Lazbent Pavel Escobedo and Andres Solíz, has been announced as the winner of MoMA and MoMA PS1’s Young Architects Program (YAP).

The annual competition (now in its 17th year) is aimed at emerging architectural talent, giving young designers the chance to exhibit in an interactive, urban setting during the PS1’s summer programming. As stipulated within the competition, the winner's design must provide shade, seating and water, and “address environmental issues, including sustainability and recycling.” Prior winners have included Andrés Jaque (2015), The Living (2014), CODA (2013), MOS (2009), and WORKac (2008), among others.

Escobedo Solíz Studio’s winning proposal, “Weaving the Courtyard,” will install “platforms of soil and water” and “a reflective wading pool” in PS1’s courtyard, all underneath a colorful woven canopy. The installation will debut as the setting for Warm Up, PS1's summer music series, beginning in e...

First Office + Ultramoderne among MoMA's 2016 Young Architects Program finalists

2015-12-02T15:30:00-05:00

Joining an eye-popping list of previous entrants and winners, the five finalists for the 2016 PS1/MoMA Young Architects Program (YAP) have been announced, and they are:

• Ultramoderne (the Providence, Rhode Island-based firm whose 2015 Chicago Architecture Biennial Lakefront Kiosk winning wood pavilion you may remember),

• Cobalt Office (based in Houston, Texas)

• First Office (L.A.-based authors of Nine Essays in the Graham Foundation's published series Treatise),

• Escobedo + Solis (hailing from Mexico City, Mexico)

• and Frida Escobedo (from Anzures, México)

As with YAP's previous 15 editions, the finalists submit proposals for a temporary summer installation to the program that must meet certain requirements. In the past, these requirements have included designs that provide water, seating, shade, as well as meeting environmental and sustainable guidelines. The winner will be announced likely in early 2016.

A visit to "ALL THAT IS SOLID", winner of the Young Architects Program at the Istanbul Modern

2015-10-30T05:12:00-04:00

Istanbul is a city constantly evolving and forever feeling the pull of east and west, of tradition and modernity, and defined by its contrasts. Poised at the edge of the Bosphorus on the European side of the city, the Istanbul Modern museum situates itself at the center of it all.

Currently the gallery is hosting part of the Istanbul Biennial, which this year is divided between six locations across the city, stretching as far as the Princess Islands and Northern Bosphorus. Named “Saltwater,” the Biennial asks the viewer to take a much more leisurely approach to viewing and consider the context of its in situ context.

Like much of Istanbul, the Istanbul Modern and surrounding site is currently undergoing a transformation into a tourist hub. “ALL THAT IS SOLID” by Istanbul-based PATTU, the winning installation for this year’s Young Architects Program at the Istanbul Modern (a direct collaboration with the MoMA PS1 program of the same name), is inspired by this constant, cyclical change ...

What happens to the MoMA PS1 Young Architecture Program pavilions after Warm Up is Over?

2015-08-25T13:51:00-04:00

For nearly two decades, the Young Architect's Program (YAP) has brought both young and established talent to MoMA PS1's courtyard to form a welcome space for overheated crowds that often interact with the work during the institution's popular Warm Up series [...] So what happens to the pavilions and their creators once the DJs pack up their gear, the throngs of people leave, and the summer is over?

Artnet news looked at the afterlife of some of YAP pavilions that have graced the MoMA PS1 courtyard in Queens. Here's a quick summary of some of the featured anecdotes:

SHoP Architects "Dunescape," 2000

SHoP Architects, the firm behind the recently-inaugurated Barclays Center in Brooklyn, designed "Dunescape" comprising cedar structures that you could climb over and in. At the end of the summer, the wood was donated to a trade school where it used for woodworking practice.

Archinect Sessions Episode #18: Moonwalking Or (The Expected Virtue of Social Architecture) with Andrés Jaque, winner of MoMA PS1's YAP

2015-02-26T13:38:00-05:00

Winner of this year's MoMA PS1 Young Architects Program, Andrés Jaque of the Office for Political Innovation, joins us on the podcast this week to discuss his winning design, COSMO. In a continued thread from last year's YAP, The Living's "Hy-Fi", Jaque's COSMO focuses on issues of sustainability and ecology – its main element is a series of pipes that will purify water with biological treatments.

Before winning the YAP, Jaque's office already had a piece in MoMA's permanent collection, IKEA Disobedients (2011), the museum's first "architectural performance" acquisition. COSMO will be installed from June 23 through September 7.

As always, you can send us your architectural legal issues, comments or questions via twitter #archinectsessions, email or call us at (213) 784-7421. And if you can, we'd love for you to rate us on iTunes or Stitcher!

Listen to episode eighteen of Archinect Sessions, "Moonwalking Or (The Expected Virtue of Social Architecture) with Andres Jaque, winner of MoMA P...

YAP 2015 winner Andrés Jaque/Office to install "Cosmo" at MoMA PS1 this summer

2015-02-05T19:06:00-05:00

MoMA PS1 announced today that "COSMO" by Andrés Jaque/Office for Political Innovation is the winner of the 2015 Young Architects Program competition. Every year, the YAP winning design is realized into a temporary outdoor installation placed in the outdoor courtyard of MoMA PS1 in Long Island City, New York during the annual Warm Up summer music festivities in late June. YAP proposals have to provide seating, shade, and water, and also follow guidelines that address environmental issues and sustainability.

Made of customized irrigation components, COSMO is described as a moveable party artifact that is also biochemically engineered to filter and purify 3,000 gallons of water in a period of four days. The structure will continuously eliminate suspended particles and nitrates, balance pH levels, and increase the level of dissolved oxygen. As a result, the same body of water will become more purified with each cycle.

Similar to last year's winning installation "Hy-Fi", COSMO is more t...

MoMA PS1 YAP 2015 finalists are announced

2014-11-13T13:55:00-05:00

Five finalists have been selected for the MoMA PS1 2015 Young Architects Program. The popular yearly program shines the spotlight on emerging architects and invites them to develop an innovative, temporary outdoor urban installation for the MoMA PS1 courtyard in Long Island City, New York for summer 2015.

Andres Jaque / Office for Political Innovation, Madrid/New York
brillhart architecture, Miami
Erin Besler, Los Angeles
The Bittertang Farm, New York
Studio Benjamin Dillenburger, Toront

Finalists will now begin to work on their proposals. Their designs must provide seating, shade, and water, and also follow guidelines that address environmental issues and sustainability. Only one project will be the winner.

Head over to Bustler for more.

Interview with David Benjamin, creator of MoMA PS1's "Hy-Fi" Mushroom Tower

2014-07-01T14:18:00-04:00

"[...] In this project, we're using a living organism as a factory. So the living organism of mycellium, or hyphae, which is basically a mushroom root, basically makes our bricks for us. It grows our bricks in about five days with no energy required, almost no carbon emissions, and it's using basically waste— agricultural byproducts, chopped up cornstalks. This mushroom root fuses together this biomass and makes solid bricks which we can kind of tune to be different properties."

Here are a few more photos of Hy-Fi, the locally-sourced, virtually waste-less biostructure by The Living, which just debuted in the courtyard of MoMA PS1.

Photos by Andrew Nunes.

In the video below, David Benjamin talks with The Creators Project about building the structure from agricultural waste and mushroom root, MOMA PS1's interest in sustainability, and how the Hy-Fi could revolutionize waste-less architecture.

The mythologically inspired “Shinseon Play” wins the first Young Architects Program Seoul

2014-06-05T19:35:00-04:00

Jang Won Choi, Kyung Min Kwon, and Cheon Kang Park of collaborative team MOON JI BANG recently won the inaugural Young Architects Program Seoul in South Korea with their proposal, "Shinseon Play". The proposal draws inspiration from traditional Korean mythology with features like gently swaying "clouds", a trampoline, and a grassy meadow -- making it an ideal outdoor installation for the summer season.

Find out more on Bustler.

YAP winner The Living selected to re-design MoMA PS1's courtyard this summer

2014-02-05T15:20:00-05:00

After winning the 2014 Young Architects Program out of five finalists, emerging architect David Benjamin and his firm, The Living will temporarily transform the outdoor courtyard of MoMA PS1 in Long Island City, New York when the summer season rolls in.

YAP projects had to provide seating, shade, and water, and also follow guidelines that address environmental issues and sustainability. The Living's proposal, titled "Hy-Fi", will feature circular organic brick towers made of corn stalk and living root structures. Set to open in late June, the temporary installation will be a memorable summer spectacle.

Here's more detail into the project's design:

"Using biological technologies combined with cutting-edge computation and engineering to create new building materials, The Living will use a new method of bio-design, resulting in a structure that is 100% organic material. The structure temporarily diverts the natural carbon cycle to produce a building that grows out of nothing but earth an...

Finalists for MoMA PS1 2014 Young Architects Program

2013-11-14T16:58:00-05:00

Five finalists were selected this week for the MoMA PS1 2014 Young Architects Program. The annual program gives young emerging architects the chance to develop an innovative, temporary urban installation for the MoMA PS1 courtyard in Long Island City, New York in summer 2014.

The 2014 YAP finalists are:

Collective-LOK - Jon Lott, William O’Brien Jr. and Michael Kubo
Fake Industries Architectural Agonism - Cristina Goberna and Urtzi Grau
LAMAS - Wei-Han Vivian Lee and James Macgillivray
Pita + Bloom - Florencia Pita and Jackilin Hah Bloom
The Living - David Benjamin

YAP MAXXI 2013 Installation Completed in Rome

2013-07-02T19:42:00-04:00

bam! bottega di architettura metropolitana recently completed He, the winning installation of the Young Architects Program (YAP) MAXXI 2013 in Rome

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YAP Istanbul Modern Finalist Entry by ONZ Architects

2013-02-19T15:34:00-05:00

Earlier this month, the installation Sky Spotting Stop had been chosen as the first-ever YAP Istanbul Modern winner in conjunction with the Young Architects Programs at MoMA PS1 in New York, MAXXI in Rome and the cultural organization CONSTRUCTO in Santiago, Chile. Here is now also one of the five YAP Istanbul Modern finalist entries: Tearing the Ground by young Ankara-based firm, ONZ Architects.

MY HAIR IS AT MOMA PS1 - Finalist Entry for 2013 MoMA PS1 YAP

2013-02-07T15:08:00-05:00

One very fascinating runner-up for New York's MoMA PS1 YAP is MY HAIR IS AT MOMA PS1 by TempAgency, a collaboration between the two individual offices Kutonotuk (Leena Cho, Matthew Jull) and mcdowellespinosa (Rychiee Espinosa, Seth McDowell).

SO? Architecture and Ideas wins first-ever YAP Istanbul Modern

2013-02-06T16:35:00-05:00

With the winners of the New York and Rome editions of the Young Architects Program (YAP) already unveiled, the first-ever YAP Istanbul Modern winner has now also been selected: the temporary installation Sky Spotting Stop by young design firm SO? Architecture and Ideas reached the highest score with the jury and will be built in early June in Istanbul Modern’s courtyard.

bam! bottega di architettura metropolitana wins YAP MAXXI 2013

2013-02-06T15:08:00-05:00

The installation He by Turin-based studio bam! bottega di architettura metropolitana has been selected as winner of the Young Architects Program (YAP) MAXXI 2013 in Rome.

Previously: YAP MAXXI 2013: five finalists announced

UPDATE: YAP MAXXI 2013 Installation Completed in Rome

CODA Wins 2013 MoMA PS1 Young Architects Program

2013-01-17T15:32:00-05:00

The New York Museum of Modern Art and MoMA PS1 today announced CODA (Caroline O’Donnell of Ithaca, New York) as the winner of the annual Young Architects Program (YAP) in New York.

Now in its 14th edition, the Young Architects Program at MoMA and MoMA PS1 offers emerging architectural talent the opportunity to design and present innovative projects, challenging each year’s winners to develop creative designs for a temporary, outdoor installation at MoMA PS1 that provides shade, seating, and water. The architects must also work within guidelines that address environmental issues, including sustainability and recycling. CODA, drawn from among five finalists, will design a temporary urban landscape for the 2013 Warm Up summer music series in MoMA PS1’s outdoor courtyard.

The winning project, Party Wall, opening at MoMA PS1 in Long Island City in late June, is a pavilion and flexible experimental space that uses its large-scale, linear form to provide shade for the Warm Up crowds, in addition to other functions.

The porous façade is affixed to a tall self-supporting steel frame that is balanced in place with large fabric containers filled with water, and ...

YAP MAXXI 2013: five finalists announced

2012-12-13T17:45:00-05:00

The jury – composed of the directors of the MAXXI, representatives of the MoMA and Constructo in Santiago Chile – met on Wednesday 28 November to select the five finalists who, by January 2013, must present their projects for the realisation of a temporary space for live summer events in the MAXXI Plaza. The jury will meet once again to select the project to be constructed and inaugurated in June.

The five finalists include:

bam! bottega di architettura metropolitana, Turin
AK0 – architettura a kilometro zero, Rome
LABORATORIO PERMANENTE, Milan
Matilde Cassani, Milan
LOOP Landscape & Architecture Design, based in Rotterdam, The Netherlands

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Social Skills: Interboro at P.S.1, a postscript

2011-10-15T01:31:37-04:00

A recap of a recent community-facing installation at New York's P.S.1 explores the power of temporary design to create systemic change