MoMA PS1: YAP: COSMO by Andres Jaque
The Museum of Modern Art and MoMA PS1 announce Andrés Jaque as the winner of the annual Young Architects Program (YAP) in New York. The Young Architects Program at MoMA and MoMA PS1 has been committed to offering emerging architectural talent the opportunity to design and present innovative projects, challenging each year’s winners to develop creative designs for a temporary, outdoor installation at MoMA PS1 that provides shade, seating, and water.
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MoMA and MoMA PS1 Name Andrés Jaque Winner of Young Architects Program by Brianna McGurran
The Museum of Modern Art and MoMA PS1 announced Thursday that Andrés Jaque has been named the winner of the 16th annual Young Architects Program (YAP). Mr. Jaque, founder and principal of the New York- and Madrid-based architecture firm Office for Political Innovation, beat out four other finalists for the chance to design an outdoor installation at MoMA PS1 that incorporates green design principles.
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Andrés Jaque Visiting Professor Princeton University School of Architecture
Andrés Jaque, architect by the ETSAM and Alfred Toepfer Stiftung’s Tessenow Stipendiat, is the founder principal of Office for Political Innovation. They are authors of awarded projects such as the ‘Plasencia Clergy House’, ‘House in Never Never Land’, ‘TUPPER HOME’ or ‘ESCARAVOX’. Their project ‘IKEA Disobedients’ is the first architectural performance included in the MoMA Collection and it is part of a series of architectural experiments.
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A Water Friendly Design from the Young Architect Newly Appointed by MoMA PS1 by Todd Plummer
The United Nations has predicted that by 2025, two-thirds of the world will lack sufficient water supply. It was this statistic that inspired the architect Andrés Jaque to develop “Cosmo,” his design for an outdoor installation which this past February earned first place in MoMA’s 16th annual Young Architect Program. The competition’s rules stipulate that submissions must integrate a sustainability element, and as the founder of the boutique design agency Office for Political Innovation, Jaque is no stranger to using his work to catalyze discussion.
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The Politics of Spanish Architect Andrés Jaque by Christopher Hawthorne
Since the economic crisis, one question has dominated all others in architecture: How should the profession remake itself? From that question flow several others. Does architecture bear any responsibility for the overbuilding and false confidence that spread across the United States, Europe, and much of Asia before 2008? If so, is some kind of penance required for the damage done by the resulting collapse, or some radical re-imagining of the architect's role in society?
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Andrés Jaque Biography/Interview
Andrés Jaque (b. 1971) in the streets of Madrid. Jaque started his own practice in 2000, after graduating in 1998 from the Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura in Madrid, the same school where he started teaching in 2003.
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