For its 66th edition, the Progressive Architecture (P/A) Awards recognize unbuilt projects that demonstrate overall design excellence and innovation. The evaluations took place in December 2018, and the winners will be honored at a ceremony in New York in February 2019.
From nearly 200 submissions, this year's jury—comprising Paul Andersen, J. Frano Violich, and Claire Weisz—selected 10 winners that exhibit innovative design and new perspectives. While hailing from different regions and exploring diverse typologies and scales, these winning projects demonstrate how architects taking thoughtful design risks can generate progressive and unexpected environments.
Among the winners is DL1310, a residential project in Mexico City designed by Michan Architecture in collaboration with the firm Young & Ayata, alongside other projects by firms such as Morphosis, MALL, and OPEN Architecture.
Michan Architecture is a Mexico City-based studio that operates as an architectural laboratory through built commissions and experimental research, exploring new possibilities within the discipline. The studio is led by Isaac Michan Daniel, who holds a bachelor's degree in architecture from the Universidad Iberoamericana, with studies at RMIT University, and a master's degree in architecture from Pratt Institute in New York. He has taught at the Universidad Iberoamericana and the AA Visiting School in Mexico City. The studio's team consists of Narcisso Martínez, Denise Peralta, Omar Acevedo, Tamara Cortés, Alan Eskildsen, Ciria García, and Daniela Ruiz.
Young & Ayata is a New York-based partnership formed in 2008 that explores the conceptual and aesthetic possibilities of architecture and urbanism. Dedicated to both built commissions and experimental research, the practice views the reality of contemporary building as a provocation for architectural form, material, and technology. Michael Young and Kutan Ayata lead the studio and teach, viewing the educational experience as crucial to the continuous development of architectural ideas.
See the full list of winners here.
This article was written by Mónica Arellano. The translation is powered by AI.
