With more than 100 entries and a long process of selection, Storefront presents the 18 finalists of the Competition of Competitions.

 

The finalists’ submissions were exhibited as part of Letters to the Mayor, an exhibition focusing on the relationship between architecture and politics.

 

Learn more about the competition here.

 

THE WINNERS OF THE COMPETITION OF COMPETITIONS CAN BE VIEWED HERE.

 

The 18 Finalists of the Competition of Competitions are:

 

ReDesign the Discipline of Architecture 

The Architecture Lobby

 

Open Source Open Space: Hacking the Built Environment 

Boot/Trunk [Nicole Lindahl, Louise Mackie and Samantha Senn]


dePOLITIsign: An open call for the redesign of a USCIS office 

Min Chen & Kristin Enright


Amazonia 2020 

Civic Projects [Kati Rubinyi, Deborah Richmond , Michael Powell, Ewan E. Branda]


Deploy Yourself, Not Your Designs 

The Coalition for the Improvement of Refugee Camps [Marcy Monroe, Lee Dykxhoorn]


Second Nature 

El Corbusier

 

The City is The Room. The Room is The City. 

FormFictionFormat [Elena Palacios Carral, Manijeh Verghese]


Labyrinth

grey_matter(s) [Annie Charleston, William McCommon, Megan McDonough, Shota Vashakmadze]


NO TITLES, A Campaign for Illegal Architecture 

GroundLAB [Sean Billy Kizy, Sara Lum, Rakia Seaborn, Nicholas Sharma]


Taking Buildings Down

INC_A

 

The Discreet Architect

Local Provision Studio [Valeria Federighi, Janet Yoon]

 

Nature, Error, Babies 

Metonymy’s Architecture [Tom Nurmi, Jeffrey Dunn, Meagan Lehr, Erika Wilder]


Off-the-Radar: The Architecture of Non-Existing Space 

Mitnick-Roddier [Mireille Roddier, Keith Mitnick]

 

Rezoning the 5th Façade: Redefining New York’s City Roof Scape 

normaldesign [Matthias Neumann in collaboration with Shane T. Umman]

 

The Next Suburb

The Thirteenth Hour


Future Factory

Gretchen Wilkins [with Ian Nazareth and students Matthew Ellis, Ken Yip Lai, Sarah Moussa, Francisca Rodriguez, Nicholas Stathopoulos]

 

BLISS: Better Living through Intuitive Soft Surveillance 

Yeadon Space Agency

 

Into the Void: An Architectural Competition on Emptiness

Zooburbia [Felipe Orensanz, Rodrigo Duran]