Second Annual Poots Competition
For two decades, the Young Architects Program (YAP) organized by MoMA PS1 purported to discern and exalt emerging architectural talent. The annual competition to transform the museum’s courtyard in advance of a series of outdoor summer parties was fundamental to identifying the so-called architectural vanguard. The opportunity to produce a temporary structure and experiment with the many material and formal manifestations of a ruled surface bolstered the careers of numerous architects who are redefining New York City’s skyline today.
Sadly, the YAP was put on hiatus in 2019. Since then, the public has been at a loss for how to determine who constitutes the freshest, best, and brightest new voices in the field of architecture. In light of this gaping void, activist tastemaker Citygroup is thrilled to step in with an opportunity for emerging talent to flaunt their prowess so that we might anoint the Next Big Thing.
Although the Citygroup space is not fronted by an exclusive monumental walled courtyard, the entry to our storefront lies at the bottom of a very public reverse stoop, affectionately dubbed “the poots.” For the Second Annual Poots Competition, Citygroup solicited design proposals for the interstitial stepped zone between the sidewalk and the collective’s indoor space. Participants have re-imagined the poots as a landscape, dunescape, playscape, wetscape, dancescape, ratscape…of communal conviviality and respite from the ferment of the city
Featuring:
POP!, Anahit Hayrapetyan, Philip Poon, LuZE, Studio Deng (Qicheng Wu, Meichen Wang), Scatter Practice, Laura Del Pino, Studio BLAAK, Samantha Ong and Ariel Bintang, Achre Project, Office of Things, Atelier Atthis, Andy Kim + Joel McCullough, Natalie Pearl and Patricia Duenas, bureaukrude, Roots (Ridhi Chopra and Ekam Singh Sahni), ARch (Ryan Hartfiel and Ava Greaney), Alturas y Espacios (Jared Orellana and Xavier Zhapan), CLO (Jianing Cui, Carrie Li, Mai Okimoto), Shahira Hammad, Related Works (Andrew Chee, Tashania Akemah), WILLPOWER, as-such, Micropolitan Studio, Celia Chaussabel.