Jennifer Bonner of MALL Named a Winner of The Architectural League Prize for Young Architects + Designers
New York, NY – Jennifer Bonner of MALL was named one of this year's recipients of The Architectural League Prize for Young Architects + Designers. Each year, The Architectural League announces six firms as winners of the award, which spotlights young, innovative North American architects and designers. In 2019, a jury of architects and design professionals selected the winners in a portfolio competition around the theme “Just,” or architecture’s unique ability to address social concerns and engage a wide range of mediums, geographies, and inhabitants.
As an architect and designer, Bonner is interested in reinventing materials, hacking typologies, and playfully reimagining everyday architectural elements from gable roofs to brick facades. In 2009, she founded the firm MALL, which stands for Mass Architectural
Loopty Loops or Maximum Arches with Limited Liability—an acronym with builtin flexibility. Most recently, she completed a groundup residential project in Atlanta’s Old Fourth Ward neighborhood. The 2,200-square-foot home, Haus Gables, is one of only two residences in the country made of cross-laminated timber (CLT), an exceptionally strong wood material produced by gluing together layers of lumber that alternate in direction. Inventively, a cluster of six gable roofs establishes the structure’s angled floor plan, while large asymmetrical windows and pops of pattern and color activate the lofty, luminous interior.
As part of the 2019 League Prize program, Bonner will speak about her practice in New York City on Thursday, June 20 at 7:00 pm among other League Prize winners including Mira Hasson Henry of Henry Architecture (HA) and Cyrus Peñarroyo of EXTENTS.
The lecture will take place at the Sheila C. Johnson Design Center Parsons School of Design / The New School AnnaMaria and Stephen Kellen Auditorium, 66 Fifth Avenue, New York. NY. Admission is free for League members and $10 for nonmembers. Space is limited. Reservations recommended.
Additionally, she will be included in a June exhibition alongside the prize's five other winning firms: Mira Henry, Henry Architecture; Cyrus Peñarroyo, EXTENTS; Rachel G. Barnard, Young New Yorkers; Virginia Black, Rosana Elkhatib, and Gabrielle Printz, Feminist Architecture Collaborative; and Gregory Kahn Melitonov, Taller Ken.
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