Every summer, the winning design of MoMA's PS1 Young Architects Program helps set the mood for the museum's Warm Up music festivities, providing shade, seating, water and atmosphere. Installed in the museum's outdoor courtyard, the YAP-winning design must also address issues related to the environment and sustainability.

The finalists for 2017 are as follows: Bureau Spectacular / Jimenez Lai; Ania Jaworska; Office of III: Sean Canty, Ryan Golenberg and Stephanie Lin; Jenny E. Sabin; SCHAUM/SHIEH: Rosalyne Shieh and Troy Schaum. 

In order to get this far, the firms first had to be among the ~30 nominated to the YAP by deans of architecture schools and editors of architecture publications. Their portfolios were then reviewed by the museum's panel, which consists of Glenn D. Lowry, Director of The Museum of Modern Art; Kathy Halbreich, Associate Director at MoMA; Klaus Biesenbach, Director of MoMA PS1; Peter Reed, Senior Deputy Director for Curatorial Affairs; Martino Stierli, Philip Johnson Chief Curator of Architecture & Design at MoMA; Sean Anderson, Associate Curator of Architecture at MoMA; and Jenny Schlenzka, Associate Curator at MoMA PS1.

At this point, the finalists will have to submit design proposals for the actual installation, and a winner will be selected in February of 2017. Most recently, the YAP title was held by Escobedo Soliz Studio (2016), Andrés Jaque / Office for Political Innovation (2015), and The Living / David Benjamin (2014).

Check out previous work by 2017's finalists below:

↑ Jimenez Lai's "Tower of Twelve Stories" at Coachella

↑ Office of iii's "Doubled Interior"

↑ Ania Jaworska's "Forum Pavilion"

↑ Jenny E. Sabin's "myThread Berlin"

↑ Rendering for SCHAUM/SHIEH's "White Oak Music Hall"