The Architecture League created the Emerging Voices lecture series in 1982 to recognize and encourage architects who are beginning to achieve prominence in the profession. Now celebrating its 25th anniversary, the series focuses primarily on built work, at a variety of scales, and is structured to reflect the diversity of contemporary practice - geographically, stylistically and ideologically. This year the series will be presented both in New York City and at Washington, DC area architecture schools in collaboration with the National Building Museum.

For the third consecutive year, the Architectural League will produce podcast interviews with each of the Emerging Voices participants.

Onion Flats
Formed in 1997 in Philadelphia by brothers Tim McDonald and Pat McDonald, who were later joined by Johnny McDonald and Howard Steinberg, Onion Flats is a collective combining the roles of developer, architect and builder. The firm's mission is to bring architecture not only "beyond the drawing board and into the building process," creating a dialogue between the often disoarate worlds of architecture and building, but also to integrate buildings with communities and culture. In projects such as Rag Flats, Capital Flags, A Flats and Thin Flats, Onion Flats has taken derelict and deteriorating structures in Philadelphia, rehabilitating them to create buildings and communities built to self-sustain.

Stoss Landscape Urbanism (StossLU)
Stoss Landscape Urbanism (StossLU) is a Boston-based landscape architecture, planning and urbanism studio led by Chris Leed. StossLU seeks to "thicken" the landscape in its design and planning ideas and strategies known as landscape urbanism. Preferencing a "performance-based approach over one that is primarily physical, spatial or visual" StossLU asks how landscapes work: "how they function urbanistically, socially, hydrologically, environmentally; how they reinforce existing city frameworks and how they invert new ones; and how they may support a range of complementary and sometimes contradictory civic programs and uses." Recent and current projects and proposals include Bass River Park on Cape Cod; Fox Riverfront in Green Bay, WI; Lower Don Lands in Toronto and Safe Zone at the International Garden Festival at Grand-Metis, Quebec.

All lectures will be held at the New Museum, 235 Bowery, New York City. Free admission to this year's lectures is made possible by the sponsorship of USM Modular Furniture. Members may make reservations for themselves and a guest beginning 01 February 2008, non-members beginning 25 February 2008.