The Architectural League of New York has named six winners in its 20th annual Young Architects Forum competition, themed "City Limits." Open to anyone who graduated from architecture school less than 10 years ago, the competition often recognizes future leaders in the profession. Entrants submit a portfolio of their work for consideration. The winners for 2001 are SERVO, Teddy Cruz of San Diego, and Thaddeus Briner, Petra Kempf, nArchitects, and Eric Worcester of New York City. An exhibition of the winners’ work will be on display at the Urban Center in New York through June 27.

Born in Guatemala, Cruz is principal of estudio teddy cruz and founded the LA/LA Latin America/ Los Angeles Workshop at the Southern California Institute of Architecture. His project Living Rooms at the Border includes a church renovation, affordable housing, and a public garden for San Ysidro.

Briner, a project architect with Rogers Marvel Architects in New York City, submitted a portfolio that includes New York competition entries for the Pier 54 Sun Shade and the TKTS booth. His work attempts to "refract the transparency of system."

A former urban designer with the Department of City Planning in New York, Kempf teaches urban design at both Pratt Institute and the State University of New York in Buffalo. Her portfolio includes a series of abstract diagrams of urban movement, transportation, and form on translucent vellum.

Eric Bunge and Mimi Hoang are the partners in nArchitects; they won the first round and were finalists in the second round of a competition (with Field OFFICE) for the Hotel Pro Forma in Copenhagen. nArchitects is working on a speculative project, de-Central Park, which will be a hybrid of urban park and transportation/delivery networks.

SERVO was founded by four Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture alum now in four different cities: Chris Perry of New York, David Erdman of Los Angeles, Marcelyn Gow of Zurich, and Ulrika Karlsson of Stockholm. SERVO’s work principally deals with "issues of interactivity and collaboration registered at both cultural and organizatinal scales."

Founder of the New York firm Manifold, Eric Worcester has a portfolio that includes a series of sketches and studies from Budapest and a design for the campus of Sarajevo University.

Jurors were Yolande Daniels, Jeremy Edminston, James Slade, Frank Lupo, Wolf Prix, Nanako Umemoto, and Mark Wigley.

John E. Czarnecki, Assoc. AIA