The Architectural League of New York has revealed the newest cohort of North America–based practitioners—including three duos and three individuals—to join the illustrious ranks of Architectural League Prize for Young Architects + Designers awardees. Now in its 42^nd edition, the portfolio-based annual competition was first established in 1981 as the Young Architects’ Forum and is open to architects and designers less than ten years out of a bachelor’s or master’s degree program. 

Each responding to this year’s distress- and displeasure-probing theme of Uncomfortable, the nine 2023 League Prize recipients represent a sizable swath of geography, spanning from the Great Lakes to New England to the high desert of New Mexico. They are Katie MacDonald and Kyle Schumann of After Architecture (Charlottesville, Virginia); Miles Gertler of Common Accounts (Toronto, Madrid); Joseph Altshuler and Zack Morrison of Could Be Design (Chicago and Urbana, Illinois); Sarah Aziz and Lindsey Krug; (Albuquerque, Chicago, and Milwaukee); Daisy Ames of Studio Ames (New York City), and Sean Canty of Studio Sean Canty (Boston).