New York, NY (September 1, 2009)—Pamphlet Architecture, Ltd., today announced the winner of the Pamphlet Architecture 30 competition, an international competition that called for "proposals aimed at inventive new infrastructure for the United States." The winning entry, entitled Coupling: Strategies for Infrastructural Opportunism, was submitted by InfraNet Lab / Lateral Office and will be published as number 30 in the critically acclaimed Pamphlet Architecture series of publications. InfraNet Lab / Lateral Office—a nonprofit research collective probing the spatial byproducts of contemporary resource logistics—is composed of Mason White, Lola Sheppard, Neeraj Bhatia, and Maya Przybylski. The winning entrants will receive a $2,500 grant to develop their proposal for publication as Pamphlet 30 in September 2011.
The Pamphlet Architecture 30 jury consisted of Kevin Lippert, publisher, Princeton Architectural Press; Steven Holl, architect; Toshiko Mori, architect; Michael Bell, architect; Stan Allen, architect; Marion Weiss, architect; and Jennifer Thompson, editorial director, Princeton Architectural Press. According to the jury, Coupling locates new, small-scale potentials for infrastructure in unexpected places. The winning entry also illustrates a collection of projects with strong graphics, design, and thematic organization.
The two Pamphlet Architecture 30 finalists are:
A Projective Geography for America: Territorial Cultural Artifacts for the New Era
Team: ORG Project Team
Members: Alexander D'Hooghe, Natalie Seys, Luk Peeters, Steve Swiggers, Andrew Corrigan, Michiel De Potter, Ryan Maliszewski, Lisa Pauli, Evelyne Van Houtte, Oliver Wuttig
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Janet Yoon
The five Pamphlet Architecture 30 runners up are:
Empower: Visualizing Ecosystem Infrastructure
Rebecca Fuchs, Marguerite Graham, and Sarah Cowles
Entropic Industries: Infrastructure Embodying Uncertainty
Jared Winchester
Growing Water
Team: UrbanLab
Member: Martin Felsen
Green Belt Duplicity: Cultivating the Modern Day Ringstrasse
Hui Dong, Suah Na, Tana Hovland, Shu Zhang
Drift City: A Continental Transient Infrastructure
Andrew McDowell
Pamphlet Architecture and this year’s jurists thank all of the participants for their hard work.
Photos of the competition jury can be seen on the Pamphlet Architecture Flickr stream.