Center for Architecture Lab is a multi-month, multi-disciplinary residency program that offers new voices in architecture and design full authorship over dedicated areas of the Center for Architecture’s platforms, allowing them to develop and share compelling and provocative content meant to elevate underrepresented perspectives.
The 2026 Lab cohort will respond to the prompt of “Repair – Democracy and Urban Spaces.” Residents will address the urgent need to repair not only the physical infrastructure of our environments but also the political and social inequities embedded within them. The open call invited architects, urban planners, designers, artists, cultural conservationists, and community activists to examine how the concept of repair can serve as a lens to reimagine democratic, equitable spaces.
Selected residents:
Energies of Repair: Visualizing Community Power in NYC by Andrea Johnson and Ashley Dawson
DEPAVE: An Ecological Repair of the Ground by Friends Making Work (Christine Giorgio, Amelyn Ng, and Gabriel Vergara)
Graphic Design: WSDIA
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This exhibition is made possible by
The New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of Governor and the New York State Legislature.
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In part by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council.
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Patron
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Sponsor
Gensler
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Supporter
Dattner; Diller Scofidio + Renfro; Fogarty Finger; Kohn Pedersen Fox; Morris Adjmi Architects; Susan T. Rodriguez Architecture • Design PLLC; WXY
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Friend
Apogee Design Construction Inc; Brent Buck Architects; Barkan & Goldberg; Doug Fox; Eve Klein; Hausman LLC; James McCullar Architecture; Kenneth Lewis; Margit Detweiler; Rodney & Valerie Gardner; Sage and Coombe Architects; TYLin
Center for Architecture Lab is a multi-month, multi-disciplinary residency program that offers new voices in architecture and design full authorship over dedicated areas of the Center for Architecture’s platforms, allowing them to develop and share compelling and provocative content meant to elevate underrepresented perspectives.
The 2026 Lab cohort will respond to the prompt of “Repair – Democracy and Urban Spaces.” Residents will address the urgent need to repair not only the physical infrastructure of our environments but also the political and social inequities embedded within them. The open call invited architects, urban planners, designers, artists, cultural conservationists, and community activists to examine how the concept of repair can serve as a lens to reimagine democratic, equitable spaces.
Selected residents:
Energies of Repair: Visualizing Community Power in NYC by Andrea Johnson and Ashley Dawson
DEPAVE: An Ecological Repair of the Ground by Friends Making Work (Christine Giorgio, Amelyn Ng, and Gabriel Vergara)
Graphic Design: WSDIA
-
This exhibition is made possible by
The New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of Governor and the New York State Legislature.
-
-
In part by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council.
-
-
Patron
-
-
Sponsor
Gensler
-
Supporter
Dattner; Diller Scofidio + Renfro; Fogarty Finger; Kohn Pedersen Fox; Morris Adjmi Architects; Susan T. Rodriguez Architecture • Design PLLC; WXY
-
Friend
Apogee Design Construction Inc; Brent Buck Architects; Barkan & Goldberg; Doug Fox; Eve Klein; Hausman LLC; James McCullar Architecture; Kenneth Lewis; Margit Detweiler; Rodney & Valerie Gardner; Sage and Coombe Architects; TYLin