Name for entries: The 14th Architizer A+Awards celebrates structure’s new period of craft. Apply for publication on-line and in print by submitting your initiatives earlier than the Predominant Entry Deadline on December twelfth!
Nice structure doesn’t finish on the threshold — and neither does nice design. For the 14th A+Awards, Architizer welcomes a jury of inventive leaders who work throughout scales, from spatial methods to the grain of a tabletop. These designers carry structure nearer to creating, forging new connections with the constructed surroundings and supplies with furnishings and fabrication itself.
This yr’s jurors are redefining how issues are made — and the way they’re skilled. Bryan Younger and Jerome Byron translate conceptual rigor into sculptural, detail-rich kinds. Nicole Hollis and Smita Thomas channel temper and reminiscence into atmospheres that prioritize materials integrity. Robin Reigi connects designers to the merchandise and surfaces that form their work, whereas Mark Gardner advances materials tradition as each a follow and a pedagogy.
Collectively, they signify a era of designers who’re eliding distinctions between structure and product — and who champion work that’s as tactile as it’s considerate. Their method embodies the theme of Architizer’s A+Awards this season, which is championing a brand new period of architectural craft, whereby designers are taking again their position as makers within the face of elevated automation— the place materials intelligence, detailing and human-centered ingenuity matter greater than ever.
The Predominant Entry Deadline arrives at Midnight PT on December 12, 2025. To safe your home in this system and benefit from deeply discounted pricing, hit the button beneath to get began:
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Bryan Younger
Founding Principal, Younger Initiatives | Cofounder, Verso
Initially from Los Angeles, California, Bryan Younger graduated with distinction from Harvard’s GSD in 2003 and was awarded the AIA Henry Adams Medal and James Templeton Kelley Thesis Prize for his evaluation of Donkey Kong and Pac-Man. He obtained his B.A. in Structure with Highest Honors from UC Berkeley in 1997.
In 2010, Younger based the structure and design studio Younger Initiatives. Finishing a number of initiatives starting from buildings and interiors to furnishings and prototypes, the studio was named Architectural Digest’s AD100 2025, Architectural Report’s Design Vanguard 2020, the Architectural League Rising Voices 2020 and League Prize 2013, and AIANY’s New Practices New York 2014. The studio’s work has been featured in in quite a few design publications, and their first monograph, Determine, Forged, Body, was printed in 2022 by Monacelli. Younger has given quite a few lectures internationally and taught studios at MIT, Cornell, The Cooper Union, Parsons, and Syracuse.
In 2022, Younger cofounded the furnishings and design gallery VERSO with Amauri Aguari. The gallery focuses on the narratives that bridge designers’ ideas, artisan methods and remaining objects. Collections embody bespoke, restricted version and open collection furnishings and artwork items from a curated group of worldwide designers.
Nicole Hollis
Founder, Nicole Hollis
Based by Nicole Hollis in 2002, NICOLEHOLLIS is a San Francisco-based inside design studio working throughout the US and Europe. The studio designs environments that mirror how individuals stay, really feel, and collect. Every undertaking is grounded in analysis into website, tradition, and architectural precedent, and delivered with a deep respect for materials integrity and place. A collective of inside designers, inside architects and furnishings designers, the group attracts from nice artwork, style and nature, and works collaboratively with architects, builders, artists and artisans.
Spanning residential, hospitality, and product design, the agency is guided by quiet rigor and a perception in design that elevates the human spirit. NICOLEHOLLIS has been constantly ranked in Architectural Digest’s AD100, Elle Décor’s A-Checklist, 1stDibs 50, and Inside Design’s Prime 100 Giants. Latest honors embody the ASID and Hospitality Design Designer of the Yr awards. Its work has appeared in The New York Occasions, The Wall Road Journal, The World of Interiors, Wallpaper*, and extra. In 2025, Nicole Hollis launched The NICOLEHOLLIS Assortment, a line of limited-edition artist- and artisan-made items for the house that embody the studio’s design philosophy.
Instagram: @nicolehollis | @nicoleholliscollection
Jerome Byron
Co-Founder, Workplace of BC
Jerome Byron is a New York Metropolis–born, Berlin-based architect and furnishings designer. He’s a founding accomplice of Workplace of BC, a Los Angeles–primarily based inside design studio acknowledged by Architectural Digest’s AD100 and Elle Decor’s A‑Checklist. Alongside this, he maintains an impartial follow below his personal identify, working throughout structure and furnishings.
His work merges conventional craft with experimental materials processes — most notably in his furnishings follow, which incorporates {custom} concrete casting, metal welding, and wood-burning methods. His items have been exhibited by Carpenters Workshop Gallery in New York, and he has collaborated on a industrial line with CB2. He has been profiled by Architectural Digest, PIN–UP, and Cultured Journal, with work featured in Wallpaper, Dwell, and Metropolis.
Instagram: @jeromebyron | @officeofbc
Robin Reigi
President-Elect, IIDA NY | Founder, Robin Reigi Inc.
Robin Reigi is the founder and co-principal of Robin Reigi Inc., a New York–primarily based supplies firm she leads along with her accomplice, Jennifer Daly. For greater than twenty years, Robin has been a trusted voice within the structure and design group, recognized for her experience in supplies that steadiness technical efficiency with aesthetic expression.
A graduate of the Faculty of Visible Arts, Robin teaches a course she authored titled “Supplies for a Sustainably Constructed Atmosphere” at FIT and serves as President-Elect of IIDA NY. She has served as a juror for Pratt, Parsons, Columbia thesis critiques, and Architectural Report product competitions. Robin is an everyday contributor to CBS Information’ America ByDesign: Structure and was a latest visitor on The Anti-Architect podcast. At present,
Robin is acknowledged as a number one trade connector—bridging designers, architects, college students, and producers throughout disciplines and generations to strengthen collaboration, elevate materials literacy, and advance a extra sustainable and inclusive design tradition.
Instagram: @robinreigimaterials
LinkedIn: Robin Reigi
Mark Gardner
Principal, Jaklitsch/Gardner Architects | Assoc. Professor of Architectural Apply & Society, Faculty of Constructed Environments at Parsons the New Faculty
Mark is a principal at Jaklitsch / Gardner Architects (J/GA) in New York Metropolis, J/GA is an award-winning design follow and studio that works throughout scales from product design to interiors to buildings. Mark works to greatest perceive the position of design as a social follow. Mark is a 2026 President-Elect of the American Institute of Architects, New York Chapter (AIANY) and a member Exhibition Committee and a Previous Co-Chair and present member of the AIANY Range & Inclusion Committee, which he helped to restart with Venesa Alicea in 2012. He’s a Previous President and Advocacy Chair for nycobaNOMA, the New York Chapter of the Nationwide Group of Minority Architects.
Mark is the Affiliate Professor of Architectural Apply and Society on the Faculty of the Constructed Environments, Parsons Faculty of Design on the New Faculty. He was Director of the M.Arch Program from 2017-2021. He served on the Van Alen Institute’s Board of Trustees, the Board of Advisors for the College of Pennsylvania Weitzman Faculty of Design, and the Board of Youth Design Middle (YDC) in Brownsville Brooklyn. Mark at present serves on the Board of the Let Freedom Ring Basis in Williamsburg, Va and the Advisory Board of the Middle for the Preservation of Civil Rights Websites (CPCRS).
Instagram: @gigajellyroll
Smita Thomas
Chief Hatter, Multitude of Sins
Smita Thomas is the Chief Hatter at Multitude of Sins (MOS), an Indian design studio recognized for its fearless and experimental method to design. A former company lawyer turned designer, she shapes areas into immersive, narrative-driven experiences grounded in rigorous analysis and shopper voices. Her follow approaches risk-taking as a design self-discipline: intensely creative, painstakingly detailed, and centered on materials reimagination. It interprets ideas by exact, exacting execution and strikes past conference by deliberate power and fearless experimentation that assessments boundaries and divulges new potential.
Since establishing her follow in 2019, Smita has emerged as a definite, unconventional voice within the design trade. Her initiatives have been internationally acknowledged by main publications, together with Wallpaper*, Body, Dezeen, Yellow Hint, The Plan, and InDesign Dwell, amongst others. If the agency’s fashion or method had been to be distilled down, one might say their work is characterised by virtuoso use of custom-designed furnishings, lighting fixtures, artwork and extra, with every element reflecting their deep dedication to originality and coherence, celebrating the richness of Indian tradition whereas feeling refreshingly fashionable.
Instagram: @multitudeofsins
Name for entries: The 14th Architizer A+Awards celebrates structure’s new period of craft. Apply for publication on-line and in print by submitting your initiatives earlier than the Predominant Entry Deadline on December twelfth!
Begin Submission →
