Through
September 2003, a canopy designed by Tom Wiscobe / EMERGENT
was on view at P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center in Long Island,
Queens, New York. P.S.1 sponsors an annual Young Architects
Program, a competition for a courtyard canopy for their museum
with a total budget of $60,000 USD. This year's Young Architects
Program consisted of candidates (nominated by a group of experts,
curators and editors), which are then reduced to a pool of
five from where a winner is chosen.
This
year's winner is Tom Wiscombe / EMERGENT. Tom Wiscombe is
based in California and went to school at UCLA and UC Berkeley
(and now teaches at Sci-Arc), he both works at Coop Himmelb(l)au
and is the founder of EMERGENT, a firm with offices in Los
Angeles and Vienna. As always, P.S.1 uses the canopy as a
site for Warm Up (on Saturdays afternoons), an annual
music festival featuring DJs, liquor, beach chairs and loud
music under whatever canopy got built that year. |
Previous
winners of the Young Architects Program are:
1998
- Gelatin
1999 - Philip Johnson (ok, obviously not young, but it was
a whole MoMA tie in thing)
2000 - SHoP / Sharpen Holden Pasquarelli
2001 - ROY
2002 - William E. Massie
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