
The Architectural League of New York is a non-profit group “for creative and intellectual work in architecture, urbanism, and related fields.”
Origins
In 1881, Cass Gilbert got young architects together at the Salmagundi Club to start the league. In the beginning, members took turns giving each other sketch problems whose solutions were then judged by well-known architects. In 1886, architect Russell Sturgis brought it back to life with exhibitions, lectures, dinners, tours, and juried annual shows.
Twentieth Century
In 1934, women were allowed to join the league, and Nancy Vincent McClelland was the first of many to do so.
George B. Post, Henry Hardenbergh, Grosvenor Atterbury, Raymond Hood, Ralph Walker, Wallace Harrison, and, more recently, Ulrich Franzen, Robert A.M. Stern, Frances Halsband, Paul Byard, Walter Chatham, Frank Lupo, Billie Tsien have all been presidents of the group. In 2018, the president was chosen to be Paul Lewis. The league encourages artists to work together. Members can be muralists or sculptors, and the annual shows have had sections for landscape architecture, painting, sculpture, and the decorative arts.
Emerging Voices
Emerging Voices is an annual juried series that features architects and designers from all over North America who have “a significant body of realised work that not only represents the best of its kind but also creatively addresses larger issues of architecture, landscape, and the built environment.”
The Architectural League Prize
The Architectural League prize is one of the most prestigious awards for young architects and designers in North America. The Prize, which was started in 1981 and was called the Young Architects Forum from 1981 to 2009, is given to young architects whose work is outstanding and thought-provoking. It also gives them a public place to talk about their ideas. The Architectural League and the Young Architects and Designers Committee, which is made up of past winners of the League Prize, put on a portfolio competition with a theme every year. Six winners, who haven’t been out of school for more than ten years, are then asked to share their work in lectures, an exhibition, and on the League’s website, among other places.
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Sources
Architectural League of New York. (2022, July 31). In Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Architectural_League_of_New_York
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