MARCUS PRIZE STUDIO

Described by RIBA as ‘The most lucrative prize for young designers in the world matched only by the Pritzker’ the Marcus Prize recognizes the newest architectural voices destined to be international leaders in design but currently at the early stage of their career. Offered every two years since 2005, the Marcus Prize has been awarded to six important international designers. The $100,000 award includes the opportunity to direct a design studio at SARUP for a semester.

Joshua Prince-Ramus, based in Brooklyn, New York, is this year’s winner and the first American architect to receive the award.  Joshua was founding partner of OMA New York--the American affiliate of the Office for Metropolitan Architecture/Rem Koolhaas. Joshua Prince-Ramus will direct the Marcus Prize Studio in collaboration with Professors Matt Jarosz and Gil Snyder (Spancrete Studio). Joshua is particularly interested in form making derived from intensive program analysis and supported with innovative application of technology from many disciplines.

The studio will be collaborative in its search to produce design models for Milwaukee that can underscore its historic role as a laboratory of ideas and as a regional leader in implementing groundbreaking urban and architectural strategies.