2024 Competition
Re-forming The Anthropocene:
A Center For Regenerative Building
Program Authors and Jury Chairs:
ELIZABETH GRAY and ALAN ORGANSCHI
Gray Organschi Architecture
The 2024 Lyceum Competition explores the potentially regenerative symbiosis between the inevitable growth of human settlement—our buildings and infrastructure, our towns and cities—and the essential health of our terrestrial ecosystem. The program calls for a new, hybrid building type, a "maker space" that functions as an essential component of a regional economic and ecological metabolism. The building itself will serve as a model of regenerative design and construction.
2024 Competition Overview
As a local resource with a global outlook, the Center for Regenerative Building seeks to demonstrate our agency as architects and builders in reining in and regionalizing our current global exchange of material and energy associated with our activities as builders. This expanded set of design objectives serves to reinforce the more traditional concerns of building joyfully, beautifully, and meaningfully for a convivial built environment and equitable society.
Three primary programmatic elements comprise the Center for Regenerative Building:
a community building material “bank” with exterior and interior spaces for bio-based and salvage material collection, preparation, storage, exhibition, exchange, and reuse.
a facility for building experimentation, vocational training, and demonstration to encourage new micro-economic business enterprise, create workforce employment opportunity, and empower citizen builders to construct, maintain, and repair their own homes and workspaces.
a hostel (short-stay housing and shared facilities) for visiting vocational trainees.
Jury
Elizabeth Gray
Principal, GOA
Alan Organschi
Principal, GOA
Rosalie Genevro
Adjunct Associate Professor, Columbia University & The Cooper Union
Former Executive Director, The Architectural League of New York (1985-2023)
Marlon Blackwell, FAIA
Principal, Marlon Blackwell Architects
Lyceum Fellowship 2007 Program Author & Jury Chair
Rashida Ng
Presidential Associate Professor of Architecture
Chair, Undergraduate Architecture, University of Pennsylvania Stuart Weitzman School of Design
Michael Pardek
Vice President, Director of Design, SMMA
Director, Lyceum Fellowship
2024 Winners
1st Prize
Alejandro Rodriguez
University of Florida
Jeffrey Carney
Faculty Advisor
2nd Prize
Lijin Zhao
University of Hawaii at Manoa
Clark E. Llewellyn
Faculty Advisor
3rd Prize
Lyriel Todd
Georgia Institute of Technology
Bryce Truitt
Faculty Advisor
Merit
Randy Crandon
Harvard Graduate School of Design
Luis Callejas
Faculty Advisor
