School of Architecture faculty member Laura Salazar-Altobelli’s firm, salazarsequeromedina is among the winners of Plot, the 44th cycle of the biennial Architectural League Prize for Young Architects + Designers.
The League Prize, open to architects and designers ten years or less out of a bachelor’s or master’s degree program, is one of North America’s most prestigious awards for young practitioners.
“An open call for designers with a story to tell,” this year’s competition theme asked entrants to interrogate how architecture engages with plot, whether as “land, drawing, or scheme:” 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. […] We invite young designers to chronicle that which bookends their practices and to demonstrate plot’s persistent role as main character.
Laura Salazar, Pablo Sequero, and Juan Medina founded design studio salazarsequeromedina (New York, NY and New Orleans, LA) in 2020. The collaborative practice focuses on civic work that engages creatively with both building processes and the contemporary built environment. Often constructed with repurposed materials, salazarsequeromedina’s “open-ended structures,” as the firm describes their projects, are realized through dialogue with environmental context in concert with community programming and use. The firm has produced architectural installations, speculative interventions, and built work for sites and platforms in Peru, South Korea, Spain, and the United States.
League Prize 2025 digital exhibition and online lecture series.
Digital Exhibition: the exhibition will feature original material created by each of the winners for archleague.org.
6/11/2025:
Mahsa Malek and Alex Yueyan Li of 11 x 17 and Laura Salazar, Pablo Sequero, and Juan Medina of salazarsequeromedina Moderated by Miles Gertler
