PS1 Names by Andres Jaque Winner of Summer Architecture Competition
05/02/2015.
MoMA PS1. [NYC] USA
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Andrés Jaque wins the 2015 edition of the Young Architects Program at MoMA PS1.
Rendering of Andrés Jaque/Office for Political Innovation’s COSMO, winning design of the 2015 Young Architects Program. The Museum of Modern Art and MoMAPS1. Image courtesy of Andrés Jaque/Office for Political Innovation
Rendering of Andrés Jaque/Office for Political Innovation’s COSMO, winning design of the 2015 Young Architects Program. The Museum of Modern Art and MoMAPS1. Image courtesy of Andrés Jaque/Office for Political Innovation
In this, the 16th year of the Young Architects Program, the lucky winner is Andrés Jaque/Office for Political Innovation. The transformation of MoMA PS1’s outdoor courtyard in Long Island City by an emerging architect has become one of the art world’s rites of summer. The popularity of these temporary installations has made its architectural competition increasingly stiff.
The architects have designed a movable structure, made out of customized irrigation components, which will purify 3,000 gallons of water. The installation’s stretched-out plastic mesh will glow automatically whenever its water has been purified, providing an illuminated backdrop for the Warm Up summer music series.
The winning project, “COSMO,” opens in late June.
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ANDRÉS JAQUE
Andrés Jaque, is the founder and principal of the Office for Political Innovation, a New York/Madrid based practice developing architectural projects that bring inclusivity into daily life. In 2014 they received the Silver Lion of the 14 Mostra Internazionale di Architettura, Biennale di Venezia and they are authors of awarded projects such as Plasencia Clergy House (Dionisio Hernández Gil Prize), House in Never Never Land (Mies van der Rohe European Union Award's finalist), TUPPER HOME (X Bienal Española de Arquitectura y Urbanismo), or ESCARAVOX (COAM Award 2013). They have also produced architectural performances and installations meant to interrogate the political frames by which architecture is practiced; including IKEA Disobedients (MoMA Collection, 2011), PHANTOM. Mies as Rendered Society (Mies Barcelona Pavillion, 2012) or Superpowers of Ten (Lisbon Triennale, 2014).
Andrés Jaque is Advanced Design Professor at Columbia University's Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation (GSAPP) and Visiting Professor at Princeton University's School of Architecture.
