Four Designers Awarded a 2012 United States Artist Fellowship

Four Designers Awarded a 2012 United States Artist Fellowship
Jujuy Redux, an apartment building in Rosario, Argentina (2012), designed by Marcelo Spina and Georgina Huljich of the Los Angeles firm P-A-T-T-E-R-N-S.
Photo © Gustavo Frittegotto, Courtesy P-A-T-T-E-R-N-S

Four Designers Awarded a 2012 United States Artist Fellowship
Reiser + Umemoto's 0-14 Tower in Dubai (2011).
Photo © Khalid Al Najjar

Kate Orff's Oyster-Tecture scheme for the Museum of Modern Art's 2010 exhibition <em>Rising Currents</em>. — Four Designers Awarded a 2012 United States Artist Fellowship
Kate Orff's Oyster-Tecture scheme for the Museum of Modern Art's 2010 exhibition *Rising Currents*.
Image courtesy SCAPE

Stephen Luoni's <em>Flyover Gardens: Adaptive Reuse of Streets and Market in Khedivial Cairo</em> (2010). — Four Designers Awarded a 2012 United States Artist Fellowship
Stephen Luoni's *Flyover Gardens: Adaptive Reuse of Streets and Market in Khedivial Cairo* (2010).
Image courtesy UACDC

Jujuy Redux, an apartment building in Rosario, Argentina (2012), designed by Marcelo Spina and Georgina Huljich of the Los Angeles firm P-A-T-T-E-R-N-S.

United States Artists (USA), the national grant-making and advocacy organization, announced today the 50 recipients of unrestricted grants of $50,000 each. In the Architecture and Design category, the award recipients are:

Marcelo Spina and Georgina Huljich founded their architecture firm, P-A-T-T-E-R-N-S, in Los Angeles in 1999. They recently completed a ten-story apartment building in Rosario, Argentina, and a mix-use corporate headquarters in Chengdu, China.

Stephen Luoni is the Director of the University of Arkansas Community Design Center (UACDC), a nonprofit that specializes in interdisciplinary public works projects combining landscape, urban, and architectural design with a focus on shaping urban design approaches to issues of sustainability.

Landscape designer Kate Orff founded her firm, SCAPE, in 2004. SCAPE's projects range from a pocket park in Brooklyn and a 1000-acre landfill regeneration project in Dublin, Ireland. Orff is an Assistant Professor at Columbia University and the director of its Urban Landscape Lab.

Jesse Reiser and Nanako Umemoto started their firm, Reiser + Umemoto, RUR Architecture, in New York in 1986. The firm's 0-14 Tower was completed in Dubai in 2010.

Click through to see an example of each winner's work.