From academic medals and trade-organization honors to popular votes on the Internet, architects can strive for an ever-increasing number of accolades. Yet an invitation from the Architectural League of New York to speak in its Emerging Voices lecture series has the same cachet today as it did three decades ago. To celebrate Emerging Voices’ pearl anniversary, Princeton Architectural Press releases 30 Years of Emerging Voices: Idea, Form, Resonance ($55) this month. The new book presents vintage and recent projects by 236 past honorees, revealing the talent and vision that earned initial notice and how both have evolved since.
Prescience has secured Emerging Voices’ consistently high regard. The Young Turks featured in the book’s first half—Steven Holl in 1982, say, or Toshiko Mori a decade later—are today’s masters. Inclusion in the program also requires deep insight, namely an ability to frame one’s work in relation to design theory, technology, and business practice. If that intellectual standard has secured Emerging Voices’ allure among up-andcoming architects, then it also serves readers well here. With interpretational help from essays and commentaries by Reed Kroloff, Alexandra Lange, and other esteemed writers, 30 Years documents a period in architecture history that was rocked early and often by change.
Click here to see some past participants of the Architectural League of New York’s Emerging Voices lecture series.