The MCHAP Award for Emerging Architecture goes to Pavilion on the Zocalo in Mexico City by Productora.
The authors of the winning project, represented at the MCHAP.emerge Symposium by Wonne Ickx, will be recognized with the MCHAP.emerge Award, the MCHAP Research Professorship in the College of Architecture at Illinois Institute of Technology for the 2016/17 academic year, and funding of up to $25,000 USD in support of research and a publication related to the theme of Rethinking Metropolis.
The MCHAP.emerge 2014/15 Symposium included afternoon sessions during which the practices of the finalist projects presented their work and engaged in substantive discussions with the jury, the IIT Architecture faculty and student body, as well as the larger MCHAP Network and Chicago architecture community.
In addition to the Pavilion on the Zocalo by Productora, the MCHAP.emerge 2014/15 Finalists included:
C.I.D., on the Road to Ayquina, Chile, by Emilio Marin and Juan Carlos Lopez Arquitectos
Haffenden House, in Syracuse, United States, by Jon Lott, PARA Project
OZ Condominiums, in Winnipeg, Canada, by 5468796 Architecture
San Francisco Building, in Asunción, Paraguay, by Jose Cubilla & Asociados
The MCHAP 2014/15 Jury includes Jury President Stan Allen, architect and former Dean of Princeton University’s School of Architecture (New York); Florencia Rodriguez, editorial director of Piedra, Papel y Tijera publishers (Buenos Aires); Ila Berman, Professor of Architecture, University of Waterloo (Waterloo); Jean Pierre Crousse of Barclay & Crousse (Lima), and Dean Wiel Arets (Chicago).
