Neri Oxman/Architect, Founder and Director, Mediated Matter Group, MIT Media Lab,Cambridge image credit:matter.media.mit.edu

Each year the League selects eight emerging practitioners through a juried, invited portfolio competition. The Emerging Voices award spotlights individuals and firms based in the United States, Canada, or Mexico with distinct design voices and the potential to influence the disciplines of architecture, landscape architecture, and urbanism. The jury reviews significant bodies of realized work and considers accomplishments within the design and academic communities. The work of each Emerging Voice represents the best of its kind, and addresses larger issues within architecture, landscape, and the built environment.

Gabriela Etchegaray and Jorge Ambrosi,AMBROSI | ETCHEGARAY,Mexico City image credit:amet.mx

Being named an Emerging Voice by The Architectural League is one of the most coveted awards in North American architecture, and the program is notable for its over thirty-year history of identifying and nurturing firms that go on to have influential practices. For a complete list of past winners, click here.

Elizabeth Whittaker,Principal, Merge Architects,Boston image credit:Merge Architects

This year’s jury included Cynthia Davidson, Susannah Drake, Mario Gooden, Louise Harpman, Paul Lewis, Toshiko Mori, Thomas Phifer, and Billie Tsien. Emerging Voices is organized by League Program Director Anne Rieselbach.

Roberto Rovira,Studio Roberto Rovira,Miami image credit:cartanews.fiu.edu

The eight winners will lecture in New York in March 2015. For more information on those lectures, click here. Below find slideshows of work and biographical and firm information on each Emerging Voice. In the coming months, look here to find expanded digital content exploring the work and ideas of this year’s Voices.

Brian Phillips,Principal, ISA,Philadelphia image credit:Sam Oberter

Manuel Cervantes Cespedes,MANUEL CERVANTES CESPEDES / CC ARQUITECTOS,Mexico City image credit:Rafael Gamo

Benjamin Aranda and Chris Lasch Aranda\Lasch,New York and Tucson image credit:moma.org