Although the amount may be nowhere near a MacArthur "genius grant," the $50,000 Prizes awarded by United States Artists are given on the same, awesome premise: no strings attached.
This year's 50 recipients included visual artists, dancers, musicians - and 4 architect/designers. Check out the lucky 4, after the break...
P-A-T-T-E-R-N-S
Marcelo Spina and Georgina Huljich founded P-A-T-T-E-R-N-S in Los Angeles in 1999. Huljich is also on the architecture and urban design faculty of UCLA, and Spina is on the design faculty at the Southern California Institute of Architecture (Sci-Arc). Check out their work on ArchDaily, including a residence and ten-story apartment building in Rosario, Argentina, a mix-use corporate headquarters in Chengdu, China, and an Art Gallery on Sunset Boulevard (pictured above).
Reiser + Umemoto
Jesse Reiser and Nanako Umemoto started Reiser + Umemoto, RUR Architecture, in New York in 1986. Reiser and Umemoto have done everything from furniture design to commercial buildings (like O-14 in Dubai, pictured above) to Pop music stadiums, even trying their hand at film. They established their firm as “an innovative laboratory in which significant social, cultural and structural ideas are synthesized into a tangible, dynamic architecture.” Check our our interview with the pair: here.
SCAPE
Landscape architect Kate Orff founded SCAPE in 2004. Orff merges ecology and form to create "rich, bio-diverse, textured landscapes that magnify the relationship between people and place." SCAPE’s projects include a pocket park in Brooklyn and a 1000-acre landfill regeneration project in Dublin, Ireland.
Stephen Luoni
Stephen Luoni is the Director of the University of Arkansas Community Design Center (UACDC), a non-profit that specializes in interdisciplinary public works projects combining landscape, urban, and architectural design, with a focus on sustainability.
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