Each year the Architectural League of New York selects eight firms, based in the United States, Canada or Mexico, to be granted the Emerging Voices Award, and to be recognized as emerging practices with the potential to influence the disciplines of architecture, landscape, and urban design.
The jury considers both the design and the academic aspects of the achievements. Each of these offices represents the best of its class and its practice addresses topics beyond its profession. The eight winning offices are Lazbent Pavel Escobedo Amaral and Andrés Soliz Paz (Escobedo Soliz, Mexico City, Mexico), Marc Blouin, Catherine Orzes (Blouin Orzes architectes, Montreal, Quebec), Andrew Wells and Brandon Dake (Dake Wells Architecture, Springfield and Kansas City, MO), Casper Mork-Ulnes (Mork Ulnes Architects, San Fransisco, CA and Oslo, Norway), Olalekan Jeyifous (New York, NY), Miriam Peterson and Nathan Rich (Peterson Rich Office, New York, NY), Christopher Marcinkoski and Andrew Moddrell (PORT, Chicago, IL and Philadelphia, PA), as well as Bryan Young (Young Projects, New York, NY).
