Design Vanguard 2009

Result

DnA_Design and Architecture
DnA founder Xu Tiantian puts down roots in her native China

BIG | Bjarke Ingels Group
A young Danish architectural firm is living up to its acronym with bold projects at home and abroad.

Min | Day
A firm finds fertile ground for innovation in the Midwest, as well as on the left coast

Mount Fuji Architects Studio
A respect for the purity of craft, fused with a deft material hand, help create buildings that seem effortless yet substantial

Tham & Videgård Arkitekter
A pair of Swedes shake up the architecture establishment with simple design

Neri & Hu Design and Research Office
This husband-and-wife-led firm is crossing boundaries between disciplines and cultures

Taylor and Miller Architecture and Design
A Northeast firm finds opportunity in constraint and order in chaos

Merzproject
A young firm tightly weaves an urban fabric in ever-sprawling Phoenix — next stop, the world

Office Kersten Geers David Van Severen
A Belgian firm asks old questions in new ways

José María Sánchez García
A spirited, multidisciplinary approach helps this architect engage both historic and natural environments

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Overview

2009 will be the 10th year Architectural Record has published its Design Vanguard feature, so we are looking for a great group of 10 emerging firms from around the world to celebrate the anniversary. Although we do not have an age limit, we try to select architects who have had their own practices for less than 10 years.

Jury
To be announced

Prize
Publishment

Entry Fee
None

Entries
hardcopy portfolio (no larger than 14-by-10 inches) with 5-8 projects (both built and unbuilt), along with CVs of your firm’s partners and a short statement of your firm’s design approach or philosophy.

Submission Address
Clifford Pearson/Design Vanguard
architectural record
2 Penn Plaza, 9th Floor
New York, NY 10121-2298 USA

Links
Past winners

Organizer
Architectural Record

Official Website
http://archrecord.construction.com/features/designvanguard/