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. 

"Assuming that we don’t have an objective, scientific, absolute understanding of anything, but that a completely subjective perspective doesn’t really help either, we become trapped in ourselves," Roberts says. "So the moment when multiple subjectivities overlap is when we negotiate what we know of the world and what we value about history and architecture."

Based off her research and work as a Rome Prize Fellow, in which she explored the geometries and materials used to create flooring in the American Academy in Rome, Roberts will present a new graphic pattern of faux stone on the gallery floor.  In her past work, Roberts responded to the patterned stone floors in Rome, by riffing on their patterns and layering in faux-marble contact paper onto original floors to allow new geometries to emerge. Her work in the Arch League exhibition, will be doing to same for the gallery floor. 

For Roberts, by layering on her own interpretation, she is creating multiple phases of time and authorship. "They’re layered and simultaneous. It’s all coming from the same place, and I hope that comes across," she says of the project.  

In addition to this installation, Bryony Roberts Studio will also exhibit a survey of past projects. Work from the other recipients—which includes Gabriel Cuellar and Athar Mufreh of Cadaster; Coryn Kempster of Julia Jamrozik and Coryn Kempster; Alison Von Glinow and Lap Chi Kwong of Kwong Von Glinow; Dan Spiegel of SAW // Spiegel Aihara Workshop; and Anya Sirota of Akoaki—will also be on display.

For more information about the winners as well as the upcoming exhibition and related events, visit here.