Collection: Young & Ayata

Young & Ayata formed as a partnership in New York in 2008. The practice is dedicated to building commissions, exploratory mediations, and published arguments where the reality of the contemporary environment is engaged as a provocation for experiments in form, material, and imagery. Young & Ayata have received the Progressive Architecture Award, Design Vanguard Award, Young Architects Prize, AIA Honor Award, and a first-place prize for the design of the Bauhaus Museum in Dessau, Germany. Michael Young is an Assistant Professor at The Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture at the Cooper Union. He is the recipient of the 2019-20 Rome Prize from the American Academy of Rome and the author of Reality Modeled After Images (Routledge 2021). Kutan Ayata is an Associate Professor and the Vice Chair in the Department of Architecture and Urbanism at UCLA, where he also serves as the Director of the Master of Architecture Program.