On matters of design, many architects regularly get deferred to by heir civilian friends: “Do you think it’s a good building? You’re the architect, after all,” is fairly typical. Perhaps it is the theoretical language so many architects use to describe their work, but in the larger civic conversation, architecture doesn’t come up as often as it should given growing interest in the field.

Control Group, the storefront for Art and Architecture, and The Architect’s Newspaper are all keenly interested in opening up that conversation, and to that end collaborated on a competition that celebrates clearly presented and rigorous student work. The faculty at 18 architecture schools submitted what they considered to be some of the best work of the year, and the best of the bunch were awarded the Control Group/Storefront Award.

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