DEADLINE-CALL FOR ENTRIES 2025 Architectural League Prize for Young Architects + Designers

By The Architectural League

Jan 30  |  Culture

Call for Entries | League Prize 2025: Plot

COMPETITION SUBMISSION DEADLINE
January 30, 2025, 11:59pm ET
All entries must be submitted through the League’s online competition portal.

CALL FOR ENTRIES
Young architects and designers are invited to submit work to the 2025 Architectural League Prize competition. Projects of all types, executed in any medium, are welcome. The jury will select work for presentation in lectures, digital media, and installations in June 2025. Winners will receive a cash prize of $2,000.

Established in 1981 to recognize visionary and innovative work by young practitioners, The Architectural League Prize for Young Architects + Designers is a competition organized by The Architectural League and its Young Architects + Designers Committee. Learn more about The Architectural League Prize’s past winners.

THE YOUNG ARCHITECTS + DESIGNERS COMMITTEE
Rayshad Dorsey
Liz Gálvez
Miles Gertler

JURY
Behnaz Assadi
Mario Gooden
Jia Yi Gu
William O’Brien Jr.
And the Young Architects + Designers Committee

Download the call for entries poster designed by Pentagram.

THEME: PLOT
Whatever the narrative, architecture can’t help but engage with plot. This is an open call for designers with a story to tell.

Every building has its lore, and plots are known to thicken. Which dramas are shaping architecture’s arc today? The truth may be stranger than fiction. Despite the best-laid plans, design so often deals in circumstance. That is, while architects may endeavor to write their own stories, projects always present twists.

The 2025 Architectural League Prize for Young Architects + Designers competition asks entrants to interrogate Plot and map out the throughlines that shape their work.

How is architecture informed by considerations of plot, whether as land, drawing, or scheme? We invite young designers to chronicle that which bookends their practices and to demonstrate plot’s persistent role as main character.