Three Bold Architectural Visions Face Off Live on YouTube– With $10,000 at Stake!
What: The final round of the American Institute of Steel Construction’s Forge Prize, in which the three finalists will present their refined concepts to the judges live on AISC’s YouTube channel. The judges will then deliberate and announce the winner during the livestream.
Press photos of finalists available here. Mile Zero is a stunning steel space frame to kickstart a day of adventure. The Community Art Center concept is a series of glass boxes that seem to float within shared space. Building Ecologies is a sustainable shade system that uses steel tubes for water capture.
Time and location: Tuesday, March 5, 1:00 to 2:00 p.m. Central, youtube.com/@aisc
Jury: Samantha Flores, AIA, vice president and director of the innovation and research team at Corgan; Reed Kroloff, Rowe Family College of Architecture Endowed Chair and dean of the Illinois Institute of Technology College of Architecture; and Paul Makovsky, editor in chief of ARCHITECT, the journal of the American Institute of Architects.
Designers: Mile Zero is a collaboration between Emily Baker, Vincent Edwards, and Edmund Harriss of the University of Arkansas; Princeton University’s Isabel Moreira de Oliveira; West Virginia University’s Eduardo Sosa; and Fayetteville, Ark.-based artist Reilly Dickens-Hoffman (partnered with Hillsdale Fabricators Chief Structural Engineer Tony Diebold, PE).
MUSUMANOCO’s Chen Xia designed the Community Art Center concept (partnered with Garbe Iron Works, Inc., President of Customer Relations John Peshia).
Juan José Castellón of Rice University’s Building Ecologies installation is a collaboration with Rice’s School of Architecture, the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, and the Shepherd School of Music, with the support of the Carbon Hub Initiative (partnered with Thompson Metal Fab, Inc. Vice President of Business Development Michael B. Moore and Vice President of Project Management Tomas Kotynek).
Background information: The Forge Prize, established by The American Institute of Steel Construction in 2018, recognizes visionary emerging architects, architecture educators, and graduate students for design concepts that embrace innovations in steel as a primary structural component. The three finalists have already won $5,000 each from the first round of the competition. They are currently working with AISC full member steel fabricators to refine their concepts for the final presentation.
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The American Institute of Steel Construction, headquartered in Chicago, is a non-partisan, not-for-profit technical institute and trade association established in 1921 to serve the structural steel design community and construction industry. AISC’s mission is to make structural steel the material of choice by being the leader in structural steel-related technical and market-building activities, including specification and code development, research, education, technical assistance, quality certification, standardization, market development, and advocacy. AISC has a long tradition of service to the steel construction industry of providing timely and reliable information.
