Design Vanguard Winners
Architectural Record’s annual Design Vanguard award program recognizes leading firms and individual practitioners who represent the promise of the next generation of architects. Since 2000, the editors have honored 10 international winners each year. Below is a complete list of awardees.
| 2023 |
| Linehouse (Briar Hickling, Alex Mok), Hong Kong & Shanghai |
| Zeller & Moye (Christoph Zeller, Ingrid Moye), Mexico City & Berlin |
| Studio J. Jih (J. Roc Jih), Boston |
| Studio Contra (Jeffrey Adjei, Olayinka Dosekun-Adjei), Lagos, Nigeria |
| MIX Architecture (Zhou Suning, Tang Tao, Wu Ziye), Nanjing, China |
| Office Mi—Ji (Millie Anderson, Jimmy Carter), Melbourne |
| Linden, Brown Architecture (Brent Linden, Chris Brown), Portland, Oregon |
| Kiyo Takeda Architects (Kiyo Takeda), Tokyo |
| Future Expansion (Deirdre McDermott, Nicholas McDermott), Brooklyn |
| 2022 |
| Erbar Mattes (Demian Erbar, Holger Mattes), London |
| Only If (Karolina Czeczek, Adam Frampton), Brooklyn |
| Ja Architecture Studio (Nima Javidi, Behnaz Assadi), Toronto |
| CO Adaptive (Bobby Johnston, Ruth Mandl), Brooklyn |
| Line+ (Meng Fanhao, Zhu Peidong), Hangzhou, China |
| Group AU (Tessa Kelly, Chris Parkinson), Pittsfield, Massachusetts |
| Freehaus (Thomas Bell, Jonathan Hagos), London |
| Kwong Von Glinow (Lap Chi Kwong, Alison Von Glinow), Chicago |
| Worrell Yeung (Max Worrell, Jejon Yeung), Brooklyn |
| Leckie Studio (Michael Leckie), Vancouver |
| 2021 |
| Undecorated (Ishtiaq Jabir Rafiuddin), Detroit |
| DAAM (Elyse Agnello, Alex Shelly), Chicago |
| Atelier Scheidegger Keller (Christian Scheidegger, Jürg Keller), Zürich |
| Sidell Pakravan Architects (Rudabeh Pakravan, Kristen Sidell), Berkeley, California |
| Yong Ju Lee (Yong Ju Lee), Seoul |
| KOGAA (Tomáš Kozelský, Alexandra Georgescu, Viktor Odstrčilík), Brno, Czech Republic |
| Andre Johnson Architects (Andre L. Johnson), Raleigh, North Carolina |
| Bright Common (Jeremy Avellino), Philadelphia |
| Hou de Sousa (Nancy Hou, Josh de Sousa), New York City |
| Comunal (Jesica Amescua Carrera, Mariana Ordóñez Grajales), Mexico City |
| 2020 |
| Cristián Izquierdo (Cristián Izquierdo), Santiago, Chila |
| AtelierJun (Junsang You), Gyeonggi-do, South Korea |
| Vladimir Radutny Architects (Vladimir Radutny), Chicago |
| Christoph Hesse Architekten (Christoph Hesse), Berlin & Korbach, Germany |
| N H D M Architects (Nahyun Hwang, David Eugin Moon), New York City |
| Young Projects (Bryan Young), New York City |
| Space Popular (Fredrik Hellberg, Lara Lesmes), London |
| WORD (Chris Warren), Los Angeles |
| McLeod Kredell Architects (John McLeod, Stephen Kredell), Middlebury, Vermont |
| O Studio Architects (Fai Au), Hong Kong |
| 2019 |
| Zooco (Miguel Crespo Picot, Javier Guzmán Benito, Sixto Martín Martínez), Madrid |
| Adam Sokol Architecture Practice (Adam Sokol), Los Angeles |
| G3 Arquitectos (Juan Alfonso Garduño Jardón), Querétaro, Mexico |
| Jo Jinman Architects (Jo Jinman), Seoul |
| Spiegel Aihara Workshop (Dan Spiegel, Megumi Aihara), San Francisco |
| Pool Leber (Martin Pool, Isabella Leber), Munich |
| Barend Koolhaas (Barend Koolhaas), Amsterdam |
| Michan Architecture (Isaac Michan), Mexico City |
| French 2D (Anda French, Jenny French), Boston |
| Chybik+Kristof (Ondřej Chybík, Michal Krištof), Brno, Czech Republic |
| 2018 |
| Davies Toews (Trattie Davies, Jonathan Toews), New York City |
| Cherem Arquitectos (Abraham Cherem, Jose Antonio Aguilar Garcia), Mexico City |
| Omar Gandhi (Omar Gandhi), Halifax |
| Rever & Drage (Tom Auger, Martin Beverfjord, Eirik Lilledrange), Oslo, Norway |
| ibda design (Wael Al Awar, Kenichi Teramoto), Dubai |
| Edward Ogosta (Edward Ogosta), Culver City, California |
| Wutopia Lab (Min Erni, Yu Ting), Shanghai |
| Local Studio (Thomas Chapman), Johannesburg |
| Civic Architects (Gert Kwekkeboom, Jan Lebbink, Rick ten Doeschate, Ingrid van der Heijden), Amsterdam |
| P.R.O. (Miriam Peterson, Nathan Rich), Brooklyn |
| 2017 |
| Ambrosi Etchegaray (Jorge Ambrosi, Gabriela Etchegaray), Mexico City |
| LEVER Architecture (Thomas Robinson), Portland |
| David Kohn Architects (David Kohn), London |
| LAND Arquitectos (Angela Delorenzo Arancibia, Cristóbal Valenzuela Haeussler), Santiago, Chile |
| stpmj Architecture (Seung Teak Lee, Mi Jung Lim), Seoul & Brooklyn |
| Uufie (Irene Gardpoit, Eiri Ota), Toronto |
| FreelandBuck (David Freeland, Brennan Buck), Los Angeles & Brooklyn |
| Max Núñez Arquitectos (Max Nunez), Santiago, Chile |
| Bruther (Stéphanie Bru, Alexandre Theriot), Paris |
| Alan Tse Design (Alan Tse), San Francisco |
| 2016 |
| Mohamed Amine Siana (Mohamed Amine Siana), Casablanca |
| Waechter Architecture (Ben Waechter), Portland, Oregon |
| Studio Akkerhuis (Bart Akkerhuis), Paris |
| Abruzzo Bodziak Architects (Emily Abruzzo, Gerald Bodziak), Brooklyn |
| Magén Architects (Francisco J. Magén Pardo, Jaime Magén Pardo), Zaragoza, Spain |
| Facet Studio (Olivia Shih, Yoshihito Kashiwagi), Sydney & Osaka, Japan |
| Alexander Jermyn Architecture (Alexander Jermyn), Berkeley, California |
| Studio Andrea Dragoni (Andrea Dragoni), Perugia, Italy |
| Young & Ayata (Michael Young, Kutan Ayata), Brooklyn |
| CUAC Arquitectura (Javier Castellano Pulido, Tomás García Píriz), Granada, Spain |
| 2015 |
| Studio Link-Arc (Yichen Lu), New York City |
| Studio Farris (Giuseppe Farris), Antwerp, Belgium |
| Arch Studio (Han Wen Qiang), Beijing |
| Losada García (Ramiro Losada Amor, Alberto García Jiménez), Cáceres, Spain & San Diego, California |
| O-OFFICE Architects (Jiangxiang He, Ying Jiang), Guangzhou, China |
| Mork-Ulnes Architects (Casper Mork-Ulnes), San Francisco & Oslo, Norway |
| Studio Anne Holtrop (Anne Holtrop), Amsterdam & Muharraq, Bahrain |
| Baldridge Architects (Burton Baldridge), Austin, Texas |
| Atelier ARS⁰ (Alejandro Guerrero, Andrea Soto), Guadalajara, Mexico |
| OBBA (Sangjoon Kwok, Sojung Lee), Seoul |
| 2014 |
| NAMELESS Architecture (Unchung Na and Sorae Yoo), New York City & Seoul |
| Barozzi/Veiga (Fabrizio Barozzi and Alberto Veiga), Barcelona |
| ESKYIU (Eric Schuldenfrei, Marisa Yiu), Hong Kong |
| Merge Architects (Elizabeth Whittaker), Boston |
| UID (Keisuke Maeda), Fukuyama City, Japan |
| Andrés Jaqué (Andrés Jaqué), Madrid & New York City |
| Go Hasegawa (Go Hasegawa), Tokyo |
| Aranda/Lasch (Benjamin Aranda, Chris Lasch), New York City & Tucson, Arizona |
| Vector Architects (Gong Dong), Beijing |
| Studio Ma (Christopher Alt, Dan Hoffman, Tim Keil, Christiana Moss), Phoenix, Arizona |
| 2013 |
| Héctor Fernández Elorza Architects (Héctor Fernández Elorza), Madrid |
| William O’Brien, Jr. (Liam O’Brien, Jr.), Cambridge |
| Rural Urban Framework (Joshua Bolchover, John Lin), Hong Kong |
| Akihisa Hirata Architecture Office (Akihisa Hirata), Tokyo |
| Marc Fornes/TheVeryMany (Marc Fornes), Brooklyn |
| JOHO Architecture (Jeonghoon Lee), Seoul |
| Grupo Aranea (Marta García Chico, Francisco Leiva Ivorra), Alicante, Spain |
| Oyler Wu Collaborative (Dwayne Oyler, Jenny Wu), Los Angeles |
| S-AR (Ana Cecilia Garza, Carlos Flores, César Guerrero, and María Sevilla), Monterrey, Mexico |
| Para-Project (Jon Lott), Brooklyn |
| 2012 |
| Yuko Nagayama & Associates (Yuko Nagayama), Tokyo |
| Gracia Studio (Jorge Gracia), Tijuana, Mexico |
| Envelope Architecture + Design (Douglas Burnham), Berkeley, California |
| Vo Trong Nghia Architects (Vo Trong Nghia, Masaaki Iwamoto, Takashi Niwa), Hanoi & Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam |
| SsD (John Hong, Jinhee Park), New York City, Seoul & Cambridge, Massachusetts |
| Trace Architecture Office (Hua Li), Beijing |
| Easton+Combs (Rona Easton, Lonn Combs), New York City |
| Hironaka Ogawa & Associates (Hironaka Ogawa), Tokyo |
| FRPO (Rodríguez & Oriol Architecture) (Fernando Rodríguez, Pablo Oriol), Madrid |
| MMX Studio (Jorge Arvizu, Ignacio Del Rio, Emmanuel Ramirez, Diego Ricalde), Mexico City |
| 2011 |
| Johnsen Schmaling Architects (Brian Johnsen, Sebastian Schmaling), Milwaukee, Wisconsin |
| Arquitecturia (Josep Camps, Olga Felip Ordis), Barcelona |
| Doepel Strijkers Architects (Duzan Doepel, Eline Strijkers), Rotterdam, Netherlands |
| Atelier Deshaus (Liu Yichun, Chen Yifeng), Shanghai |
| Iñaqui Carnicero Architecture (Iñaqui Carnicero), Madrid |
| IwamotoScott (Lisa Iwamoto, Craig Scott), San Francisco |
| 5468796 Architecture (Johanna Hurme, Sasa Radulovic), Winnipeg, Manitoba |
| Leong Leong (Christopher Leong, Dominic Leong), New York City |
| Koji Tsutsui & Associates (Koji Tsutsui), San Francisco & Tokyo |
| NORD (Robin Lee/Alan Pert) (Robin Lee, Alan Pert), Dublin, London & Glasgow, Scotland |
| 2010 |
| Carmody Groarke (Andrew Groarke, Kevin Carmody), London |
| Hiroshi Nakamura & NAP Architects (Hiroshi Nakamura), Tokyo |
| W.PA/Works Partnership Architecture (William Neburka, Carrie Strickland), Portland, Oregon |
| Molo (Todd MacAllen, Stephanie Forsythe), Vancouver, British Columbia |
| Standardarchitecture (Zhang Hong, Zhang Ke, Claudia Taborda), Beijing |
| Ivan Juarez and Patricia Meneses (Iván Juárez, Patricia Meneses), Mexico City & Barcelona |
| Chenchow Little Architects (Tony Chenchow, Stephanie Little), Sydney |
| L.E.FT (Ziad Jamaleddine, Makram el Kadi), New York City |
| HHF Architects (Tilo Herlach, Simon Hartmann, Simon Frommenwiler), Basel, Switzerland |
| De Leon & Primmer Architecture Workshop (Roberto de Leon, Jr., M. Ross Primmer), Louisville, Kentucky |
| 2009 |
| DnA_Design and Architecture (Xu Tiantian), Beijing |
| BIG (Bjarke Ingels, Finn Nørkjaer, Andreas Klok Pedersen, David Zahle), Copenhagen |
| Min|Day (E.B. Min, Jeffrey L. Day), San Francisco & Omaha, Nebraska |
| Mount Fuji Architects Studio (Masahiro Harada, Mao Harada), Tokyo |
| Tham & Videgård (Bolle Tham, Martin Videgård), Stockholm |
| Neri&Hu Design and Research Office (Lyndon Neri, Rossana Hu), Shanghai |
| Taylor and Miller (Jeff Taylor, B. Alex Miller), Brooklyn & Pittsfield, Massachusetts |
| Merzproject (Joe Herzog, Chris Nieto), Phoenix, Arizona |
| Office Kersten Geers David Van Severen (Kersten Geers, David Van Severen), Brussels, Belgium |
| José María Sánchez García (José María Sánchez García), Madrid |
| 2008 |
| Atelier Zhanglei (Zhang Lei), Nanjing, China |
| Cadaval & Solà-Morales (Eduardo Cadaval, Clara Solà-Morales), Barcelona & Mexico City |
| Urban A&O (Joe MacDonald), New York City |
| Kuehn Malvezzi (Johannes Kuehn, Wilfried Kuehn, Simona Malvezzi), Berlin |
| Daniel Bonilla Arquitectos (Daniel Bonilla, Marcela Albornoz), Bogotá, Columbia |
| MOS (Michael Meredith, Hilary Sample), New Haven, Connecticut & Cambridge, Massachusetts |
| Suppose Design Office (Makoto Tanijiri), Hiroshima, Japan |
| Smiljan Radic Architect (Smiljan Radic), Santiago, Chile |
| Gianni Botsford (Gianni Botsford), London |
| BRS Architectes (Agnès Bertholon, Jean-Michel Reynier, Uli Seher), Paris & Cologne |
| 2007 |
| Studio Pei-Zhu (Pei Zhu, Tong Wu), Beijing |
| Leven Betts Studio (David Leven, Stella Betts), New York City |
| estudio.entresitio (José María Hurtado de Mendoza Wahrolen, María Hurtado de Mendoza Wahrolen, César Jiménez de Tejada Benavides), Madrid |
| Höweler + Yoon Architecture (Eric Höweler, J. Meejin Yoon), Boston |
| Moongyu Choi+GaA Architects (Moongyu Choi, Inchul Kang, Taekwon Yun), Seoul |
| Tatiana Bilbao/mx.a (Tatiana Bilbao), Mexico City |
| Sebastian Mariscal Studio (Sebastian Mariscal), San Diego |
| Sou Fujimoto Architects (Sou Fujimoto), Tokyo |
| BROISSINarchitects (Gerardo Broissin), Mexico City |
| Atelier Kempe Thill Architects and Planners (André Kempé, Oliver Thill), Rotterdam, Netherlands |
| 2006 |
| UnSangDong Architects (Yoon Gyoo Jang, Chang Hoon Shin), Seoul |
| Studio Luz (Hansy Better Barraza, Anthony J. Piermarini), Boston |
| BAR (Bureau voor Architectuur Rotterdam) (Joost Glissenaar, Klaas van der Molen), Rotterdam, Netherlands |
| Studio SUMO (Sunil Bald, Yolande Daniels), Queens |
| Office of Kumiko Inui (Kumiko Inui), Tokyo |
| Bercy Chen Studio (Thomas Bercy, Calvin Powei Chen), Austin, Texas |
| BmasC Architects (Arturo Blanco Herrero, Alegría Colón Mur), Ávila, Spain |
| Assadi + Pulido (Felipe Assadi, Francisca Pulido), Santiago, Chile |
| WORKac (Amale Andraos, Dan Wood), New York City |
| SeARCH (David Gianotten, Bjarne Mastenbroek, Uda Visser), Amsterdam |
| 2005 |
| Luce et Studio Architects (Jennifer Luce), San Diego, California |
| King Roselli Architetti (Jeremy King, Riccardo Roselli, Andrea Ricci), Rome |
| Architecture studio himma (Junsung Kim, Hailim Suh), Seoul |
| Evan Douglis Studio (Evan Douglis), Brooklyn |
| Urbanus Architecture & Design (Xiaodu Liu, Yan Meng, Hui Wang), Shenzhen & Beijing |
| Michel Rojkind/Rojkind Arquitectos (Michel Rojkind), Mexico City |
| Contemporary Urban India Pte, Chris Lee Architecture (Kapil Gupta, Chris Lee), Mumbai & London |
| ITERAE Architecture (Elena Fernandez, David Serero), Brooklyn & Paris |
| Taira Nishizawa Architects (Taira Nishizawa, Taichi Mitsuya, Takeshi Ogihara, Ayae Takeda, Hiroyuki Unemori ), Tokyo |
| 2004 |
| Mitnick Roddier Hicks (Keith Mitnick, Mireille Roddier, Stewart Hicks), Ann Arbor, Michigan |
| nARCHITECTS (Eric Bunge, Mimi Hoang), New York City |
| Christoff:Finio (Taryn Christoff, Martin Finio), New York City |
| PATTERNS (Marcelo Spina), Los Angeles |
| dECOi (Mark Goulthorpe), Cambridge, Massachusetts |
| Ali Rahim and Hina Jamelle/Contemporary Architecture Practice (Ali Rahim, Hina Jamelle), New York City |
| Byoungsoo Cho Architects (Byoungsoo Cho), Seoul & Bozeman, Montana |
| Masaki Endoh/EDH (Masaki Endoh), Tokyo |
| Architecton (Akira Yoneda), Tokyo |
| Alejandro Aravena (Alejandro Aravena), Santiago, Chile |
| Antón García-Abril and Ensamble Studio (Antón García-Abril), Madrid |
| Plasma Studio (Eva Castro, Holger Kehne), London & Sesto, Italy |
| 2003 |
| OpenOffice Arts + Architecture Collaborative (Joanna Gulik, Leif Halverson, Astrid Lipka, Lyn Rice, Galia Solomonoff), New York City |
| SCDA Architects (Soo Chan), Singapore |
| Thomas Spiegelhalter Studio (Thomas Spiegelhalter), Los Angeles & Freiburg |
| servo (David Erdman, Marcelyn Gow, Ulrika Karlsson, Chris Perry), Los Angeles, New York City, Zürich & Stockholm |
| Chiba Manabu Associates (Manabu Chiba), Tokyo |
| Labics (Maria Claudia Clemente, Francesco Isidori, Marco Sardella), Rome |
| MADA s.p.a.m. (Qingyun Ma), Shanghai |
| Merrima Aboriginal Design (Dillon Kombumerri, Kevin O'Brien, Alison Page), Sydney |
| Studio for Architecture (Mehrdad Hadighi), Buffalo, New York |
| heneghan.peng.architects (Roisin Heneghan, Shih-Fu Peng), Dublin |
| 2002 |
| propeller Z (Keiso Leinfellner, Philipp Tschofen, kabru, Carmen Wiederin, Korkut Akkalay), Vienna |
| Tokin & Associates Architecture (Peter Tolkin), Pasadena, California |
| Tezuka Architects (Takaharu Tezuka, Yui Tezuka), Tokyo |
| Plexus r+d (Erik Lewitt, Jordan Williams), Atlanta |
| JKMM Architects (Asmo Jaaksi, Teemu Kurkela, Samuli Miettinen, Juha Mäki-Jyllilä), Helsinki |
| 3SIX0 (Chris Bardt, Kyna Leski), Providence, Rhode Island |
| Sahel Al-Hiyari (Sahel Al-Hiyari), Amman, Jordan |
| Adjaye Associates (David Adjaye), London |
| Predock_Frane Architects (Hadrian Predock, John Frane), Los Angeles |
| 2001 |
| Lang Wilson PAC Culture (Oliver Lang, Cynthia Wilson), Vancouver, British Columbia |
| David Guthrie Design Workshop (David Guthrie), Houston, Texas |
| Shuhei Endo Architect Institute (Shuhei Endo), Osaka, Japan |
| Xefirotarch (Hernán Díaz Alonso), Los Angeles |
| Richärd & Bauer (James Richärd, Kelly Bauer, Stephen Kennedy), Phoenix, Arizona |
| SYSTEMarchitects (Jeremy Edmiston, Douglas Gauthier), New York City |
| Escher GuneWardena Architecture (Frank Escher, Ravi GuneWardena), Los Angeles |
| Studio Gang/O’Donnell (Jeanne Gang, Kathleen O'Donnell, Mark Schendel), Chicago |
| 2000 |
| Ofis Architects (Rok Oman, Spela Videcnik), Ljubljana, Slovenia |
| Garofalo Architects (Doug Garofalo), Chicago |
| Cho Slade Architecture (Minsuk Cho, James Slade), New York City |
| Atelier Hitoshi Abe (Hitoshi Abe), Sendai, Japan |
| Design Office (Jason King, George Yu), Los Angeles |
| John Ronan (John Ronan), Chicago |
| Kuth/Ranieri Architects (Byron Kuth, Elizabeth Ranieri), San Francisco |
| Sanaksenaho Architects (Matti Sanaksenaho, Pirjo Sanaksenaho), Helsinki |
| Lewis.Tsurumaki.Lewis (Paul Lewis, Marc Tsurumaki, David J. Lewis), New York City |
| Birds Portchmouth Russum Architects (Andrew Birds, Richard Portchmouth, Michael Russum, Karl Jensen), London |
| SHoP (Christopher Sharples, Coren Sharples, William Sharples, Kimberly Holden, Gregg Pasquarelli), New York City |