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MoMA PS1 Young Architects Program in 2016

Weaving the Courtyard: YAP Long Island City, Queens, NY design by Escobedo Solíz Studio, USA

Jul 4, 2016

MoMA PS1 model photos in MOMA foyer from 24 Jun – 2 Jul 2016 © Adrian Welch:

Jun 20, 2016

MoMA / P.S.1 Young Architects Program 2016

MoMA / P.S.1 YAP 2016

‘Weaving the Courtyard’ – Young Architects Program winning project

Design: Escobedo Solíz Studio

Dates: June, 2016—August, 2016

The Museum of Modern Art and MoMA PS1 announce Escobedo Solíz Studio as the winner of the annual Young Architects Program (YAP) in New York. Now in its 17th edition, the Young Architects Program at MoMA and MoMA PS1 has been committed to offering emerging architectural talent the opportunity to design and present innovative projects, challenging each year’s winners to develop creative designs for a temporary, outdoor installation at MoMA PS1 that provides shade, seating, and water.

The architects must also work within guidelines that address environmental issues, including sustainability and recycling. Escobedo Solíz Studio, drawn from among five finalists, will design a temporary urban landscape for the 2016 Warm Up summer music series in MoMA PS1’s outdoor courtyard.

The winning project, Weaving the Courtyard, opened at MoMA PS1 in Long Island City in early June. The architects describe this year’s construction as “neither an object nor a sculpture standing in the courtyard, but a series of simple, powerful actions that generate new and different atmospheres.” Weaving the Courtyard is a site-specific architectural intervention using the courtyard’s concrete walls to generate both sky and landscape, with embankments in which platforms of soil and water suggest the appearance of a unique topography.

A reflective wading pool will stand at the back of the courtyard allowing visitors to cool off in fresh water. Using the modulation of the holes existing in the concrete by the formwork ties when the walls were originally poured, the architects will then weave a textured canopy suspended over the courtyard, or a “cloud” made of contrasting yet colorful ropes.

Variations of density will be visible throughout the weaving, inviting visitors to interact and occupy spaces for different periods of time. The woven cloud will provide shade to the visitors below while recasting the courtyard in a bright colored web. As the materials will be largely unaltered by the construction process, they can be re-used at the close of summer.

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Founded in 2011, Escobedo Solíz Studio is based in Mexico City and is made up Lazbent Pavel Escobedo and Andres Solíz. Through explorations in materials and construction techniques, demographic research, and the integration from the community in the design process, Escobedo Solíz Studio designs projects that aim at a deep sense of site-specificity. They describe their theoretical framework as one in which architecture is not only registered as a product but also as a catalyst to improve a given territory where restrictions become opportunities and preexistent conditions of site, climate, and locality should encourage new and practical solutions.

“This year’s finalists of the Young Architects Program explored a range of approaches, materials and scales to effectively question the MoMA PS1 courtyard as an arena for escape. Escobedo Solíz’s ingenious proposal speaks to both the ephemerality of architectural imagery today but also to the nature of spatial transactions more broadly.

From the evocative woven canopy that will “surprise” visitors overhead to a reflective wading pool, Weaving the Courtyard sensitively brings together elements of MoMA-PS1’s Warm Up Series with an exuberant collection of zones and atmospheres” said Sean Anderson, Associate Curator in MoMA’s Department of Architecture and Design.

Klaus Biesenbach, MoMA PS1 Director and MoMA Chief Curator at Large adds, “This year marks the 40th anniversary of MoMA PS1 and the 16th joint annual competition brought together by the Architecture and Design Department at MoMA and MoMA PS1. The Mexico City-based team will work on a colorful, celebratory intervention that takes it’s point of departure to be the existing geometric concrete forms in the courtyard of MoMA PS1 simultaneously creating an urban beach of sand, water and vibrant colors.”

The other finalists for this year’s MoMA PS1 Young Architects Program were First Office (Andrew Atwood and Anna Neimark), Ultramoderne (Yasmin Vorbis and Aaron Forrest), COBALT OFFICE (Andrew Colopy and Robert Booth), and Frida Escobedo. An exhibition of the five finalists’ proposed projects will be on view at MoMA over the summer, organized by Sean Anderson, Associate Curator, with Arièle Dionne-Krosnick, Curatorial Assistant, Department of Architecture and Design, MoMA.

Bloomberg Philanthropies has supported the Young Architects Program since 2007. MoMA PS1 and The Museum of Modern Art are thrilled to announce that this lead sponsorship has been extended for three years, enabling YAP to thrive and excite audiences through summer 2018.

MoMA / P.S.1 Young Architects Program 2016 – Background

SPONSORSHIP

The 2016 Young Architects Program is sponsored by Bloomberg Philanthropies.

Additional funding is provided by Bertha and Isaac Liberman Foundation, Jeffrey and Michèle Klein, and Agnes Gund.

YAP INTERNATIONAL

MoMA and MoMA PS1 have partnered with the National Museum of XXI Century Arts (MAXXI) in Rome, Italy, with CONSTRUCTO in Santiago, Chile, and with Istanbul Modern in Istanbul, Turkey (on a biennial cycle) and with MMCA in Seoul, Korea to create international editions of the Young Architects Program.

ABOUT ESCOBEDO SOLÍZ STUDIO

Their main works as the recycled timber chapel and community center in Zoh Laguna (second Place Holcim Awards 2014, Switzerland), the Duplex Housing in Mexico City, and the Research Center in Meztitlan combine technical and intuitive approaches to offer a unique and relevant answer to the existing conditions. Since their early collaborations in university, urban recycling, constructive innovation, social dialog and participation strategies are the main themes and issues that define and encourage their actual and future projects.

HISTORY

This year marks the 19th summer that MoMA PS1 has hosted an architectural installation/music series in its outdoor galleries, though it is only the 17th year of the Young Architects Program, which began in 2000. The inaugural project was an architecturally based 1998 installation by the Austrian artist collective Gelatin. In 1999, Philip Johnson’s DJ Pavilion celebrated the historic affiliation of MoMA PS1 and MoMA.

The previous winners of the Young Architects Program are SHoP/Sharples Holden Pasquarelli (2000), ROY (2001), William E. Massie (2002), Tom Wiscombe / EMERGENT (2003), nARCHITECTS (2004), Xefirotarch (2005), OBRA (2006), Ball-Nogues (2007), WORKac (2008), MOS (2009), Solid Objectives – Idenburg Liu (2010), Interboro Partners (2011), HWKN (2012), CODA (2013), The Living (2014) and Andrés Jaque / Office for Political Innovation (2015).YOUNG ARCHITECTS

PROGRAM WEBSITE

A dedicated YAP International website, MoMAPS1.org/yap, features the selected proposals and designs from the winner of YAP in New York, as well as the winners of YAP Istanbul Modern, YAP MAXXI, YAP Chile, and YAP Korea. The website also includes an archive of past MoMA/MoMA PS1 YAP finalists and winning proposals, interviews with the curators, and installation videos.

SELECTION PROCESS

For the Young Architects Program 2015 selection process, MoMA and MoMA PS1 invited outside experts in the field of architecture, including architects, curators, scholars, and magazine editors, to nominate the finalists from a pool of approximately 25 candidates that included both recent graduates and established architects experimenting with new styles or techniques.

After reviewing the candidates, five finalists were selected to present proposals to a panel composed of Glenn D. Lowry, Director; Kathy Halbreich, Associate Director; Peter Reed, Senior Deputy Director of Curatorial Affairs; Martino Stierli, Philip Johnson Chief Curator of Architecture and Design, Barry Bergdoll, Curator, Department of Architecture and Design; Sean Anderson, Associate Curator, Department of Architecture and Design, all of The Museum of Modern Art; Klaus Biesenbach, Director of MoMA PS1 and Chief Curator at Large, The Museum of Modern Art; Peter Eleey, Curator, MoMA PS1; Pippo Ciorra, Senior Curator, MAXXI Architettura; Jeannette Plaut, Director, YAP_Constructo; and Marcelo Sarovic, Director, YAP_Constructo.

Website: MoMA PS1 YAP 2016

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Feb 6, 2013

MoMA / P.S.1 Young Architects Program Runner-Up

My Hair is at MoMA PS1 – 2012 Young Architects Program in New York

MY HAIR IS AT MOMA PS1
Runner-Up, MoMA PS1 Young Architects Program 2013
by TempAgency (Kutonotuk + mcdowellespinosa)
Partners: Leena Cho, Rychiee Espinosa, Matthew Jull, Seth McDowell

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Project

“My Hair is at MoMA PS1” is a project about everyone: the waste we produce, our hair. It is an element that links us, divides us, fascinates us, and traces our diversity as a process and relic of life and reflection of ourselves.

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There are over 4,000 hair salons and barbershops in the five boroughs of New York City. Each salon produces up to 4ft3 of hair clippings daily, and nearly all of it ends up in a landfill; the material that once signified diversity, character, and collective identity is readily forgotten and discarded.

This project aims at diverting hair as a material waste stream and fabricating the cultural and architectural potential imbued with thermal, acoustic, and structural qualities as well as life and growth. Working in collaboration with material scientists, hair stylists, medical doctors and engineers, we revive and transform waste hair into a dynamic, interactive, and resilient modular canvas. “My Hair is at MoMA PS1” is a project about curating this process and manufacturing the power and spatial typologies of this living material.

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MoMA PS1 Young Architects Program, Queens

MoMA/MoMA PS1 – Young Architects Program

The MoMA/MoMA PS1 Young Architects Program has expanded in recent years to include the National Museum of XXI Century Arts (MAXXI) in Rome, Italy; Istanbul Modern in Istanbul, Turkey; and CONSTRUCTO in Santiago, Chile. This year marks the 16th summer that MoMA PS1 has hosted a combined architectural installation and music series in its outdoor galleries, though it is only the 14th year of the Young Architects Program, which began in 2000.

The inaugural project was an architecturally based installation in 1998 by an Austrian artist collective, Gelatin. In 1999, Philip Johnson’s DJ Pavilion celebrated the historic affiliation of MoMA PS1 and MoMA. The previous winners of the Young Architects Program are SHoP/Sharples Holden Pasquarelli (2000), ROY (2001), William E. Massie (2002), Tom Wiscombe / EMERGENT (2003), nARCHITECTS (2004), Xefirotarch (2005), OBRA (2006), Ball- Nogues (2007), WORKac (2008), MOS (2009), Solid Objectives – Idenburg Liu (2010), Interboro Partners (2011), HWKN – HollwichKushner (2012), and CODA – Caroline O’Donnell (2013).

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MoMA / P.S.1 Young Architects Program Runner-Up images / information from TempAgency

MoMA / P.S.1 Young Architects Program Winner

HWKN wins the 2012 Young Architects Program at MoMA PS1 in New York

New York based office HWKN (HollwichKushner) announced by The Museum of Modern Art and MoMA PS1 as winner of the annual Young Architects Program (YAP) in New York.

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