The Architectural League of New York

We’re pleased to share that "I Would Prefer Not To," the podcast we co-present with MIT's Critical Broadcasting Lab, hosted by Ana Miljacki, won the 2025 AIA New York | Center for Architecture Architecture in Media Award, which recognizes contributions that elevate and challenge architectural discourse. Stream all four seasons on our website, or subscribe through your favorite podcast provider. https://lnkd.in/em7S7VNK

*Important Update: The League Prize and Emerging Voices are moving to a biennial cycle* As of 2025, Emerging Voices and The Architectural League Prize for Young Architects + Designers programs will transition from an annual to an alternating, biennial cycle. The 2025 League Prize is well underway, and we’re excited to have more time throughout both programs’ processes for applicant outreach, research, and selection; and to amplify the voices of winners through expanded programming, storytelling, and public engagement. This shift has already made room for new “Next Generation” programming: Last Saturday, we co-sponsored a multigenerational panel with Rice University in Houston, featuring EV/LP alumni from 18 firms based in Texas to reflect on their career trajectories and share current projects. We will keep our community updated on the opportunities afforded by this change through our website, newsletter, and social media. Read the full FAQ and learn more about these programs on our website: https://lnkd.in/eFqx4mct

*Spotlight: The League Mentorship’s mid-year gathering* In January, 125 mentors and mentees gathered to connect and discuss the multifaceted nature of preservation in the built environment for the cohort’s mid-year gathering, hosted by Platt Byard Dovell White Architects (PBDW Architects) and supported by The Jenrette Foundation. Participants spent an evening at the firm with staff-led reviews of preservation-focused projects such as Powerhouse Arts and the Palace Theater. Not familiar with the Mentorship program? Each year, we pair public architecture school students and New York-based built environment professionals for one-on-one advising, mutual learning, and intergenerational community building during the academic year. Want to get involved? The next call for mentors will be announced in July. You can support the League Mentorship and our commitment to the next generation of architects and designers by giving to the Next Generation initiative directly or by becoming a member of the League.? https://lnkd.in/exMNBqrB https://lnkd.in/eqz6NPYW Photos: Mike Neglia / PBDW

Excited to announce we’ve received a grant from NYC Department of Cultural Affairs' FY2025 Cultural Development Fund (CDF)! We’re among 1,078 organizations receiving over $59 million through the CDF—the largest-ever city allocation for the program. This year's grant of $66,460 supports our Current Work lecture series, the 2025 League Prize: PLOT, our Student and Mentorship Programs, and our online publication Urban Omnibus. Read more about this year’s CDF awards at nyc.gov/culture

Applications are still open for the 2025 Norden Fund! Submissions are due by 11:59 p.m. ET on Monday, February 24, 2025. Watch a recording of our recent info session on our website, featuring two past grantees of the Norden Fund as well as remarks from Linda Norden, a co-founder of the Fund: https://lnkd.in/e7gDMZWE The Norden Fund will award a grant of up to $7,500 to one individual or team. For further instructions and eligibility requirements, please see the?2025 Call for Proposals: https://lnkd.in/dQ69XG9e

* The League is coming to Houston! * For more than 40 years, our Emerging Voices and League Prize programs have recognized designers across North America with distinct visions and the potential to in?uence the disciplines of architecture, landscape architecture, and urban design. From inaugural participants to recent winners, we’ll gather with a multigenerational panel of alumni from 18 firms working and based in Texas, to reflect on their subsequent career trajectories and share current projects. This event will take place in-person at Rice University in Houston, Texas. Rice School of Architecture Farish Gallery? Sat, March 8, 5pm CT This event is free and open to the public; learn more about the speakers below! https://lnkd.in/dcU_ma-K

We’re thrilled to announce we’ve received an NEA Grant to support our new initiative “Working Communities, Working Architecture”! With rising temperatures and technologies of adaptation and automation on a collision course with shifting populations and polarizing politics—the built environment finds itself right in the middle. Unevenly distributed economic distress is both a prime cause and a painful effect of these interconnected challenges. In response, the League has proposed “Working Communities, Working Architecture,” a multi-year initiative that seeks to answer the question: “Is architecture working for working people?” We will facilitate a process of information sharing for ambitious design and planning projects in various stages of development across the US. The League has a long history of bringing together diverse groups of practitioners and thinkers around tough challenges. This initiative is a follow-up to our 2020 “American Roundtable”, which was supported in part by the NEA. “American Roundtable” examined nine small to mid-sized communities through multi-media reports, interviews, and public programs. Replicating that project’s structure and approach of providing national context for local design work, “Working Communities, Working Architecture” similarly seeks to improve visibility and enhance understanding, but it does so across geographic and demographic lines. In seeking to build future-oriented bridges between places like the South Bronx and Southern Louisiana, “Working Communities” acknowledges that, in an era of drastic economic inequality, proximity does not necessarily imply similarity. Stay tuned for more details. Design: Pentagram https://lnkd.in/e7n8BMXe

As of January, 2025, The Architectural League has shifted its regular work week from 40 to 32 hours. We’re thrilled (and humbled) to be taking part in this movement, which is showing signs of success all around the world. In an attempt to balance reliability with flexibility, the League’s core contact hours are M–Th, 10am–4pm, and teams will plan their remaining hours independently in order to best fulfill their duties—which remain unchanged. Here’s why: ~ For many, work-life balance has long been out-of-balance. The stuff of life takes time! And long histories of labor activism teach us that there’s nothing natural about a forty-hour work week.? ~ Unlike other types of organizations or businesses, we are not primarily client-facing, nor profit-driven. Given the pressures facing employees and society more broadly, the League views stepping into this space as both an opportunity and a responsibility. ~ As a non-profit, we can aim to give in time what we can’t give in money. As a hiring and retention strategy, providing more hourly flexibility is a key potential strategic advantage as we aim to attract top talent and improve employee wellbeing. ~ We want to be a part of the conversation about labor in architecture with our actions and not just our words. We hope that this effort contributes to a more informed conversation within the allied fields of the built environment. Do you have experience with a 32-hour work week? We’d love to hear about it! #32hourWorkWeek Learn more at the link below.? https://lnkd.in/ehuvE2tM

Tomorrow! Norden Fund 2025 Info Session Interested in applying for the Norden Fund? Please join us Thursday, Jan 30 at 12:30 p.m. ET for an online event for prospective applicants, featuring two past grantees. https://lnkd.in/e7gDMZWE