Icon selects San Rocco as Emerging Architect of the Year

“Books of Copies” at the 13th Venice Biennale

have been announced as the recipients of the inaugural Icon Award for Emerging Architectural Practice of the Year.

However, San Rocco is not your typical architectural practice. Departing from the traditional model, San Rocco is a collaboration of firms with different disciplines; Instead of buildings, they are known for their publishing projects.

Icon Magazine reveals the 20/20

For the June issue of Icon, they invited an international panel of experts to help them pick the people who are making the future. The result is the Icon 20/20, a list of the 20 architects and 20 designers who are already changing the way we work and think. You can vote for your favorite on Icon’s website.

Full list of architects and designers after the break.