CODA's "Party Wall" wins MoMA PS1's 2013 Young Architects Program Competition

Image source: Curbed

During this week of frigid weather, it’s nice to think about summer, and we have some summer news – MoMA PS1 has chosen a winner of their 14th annual Young Architect’s Program Competition. The winner is CODA, who is also known as Caroline O’Donnell, Assistant Professor of Architecture at Cornell in Ithaca, NY. She has created a project called Party Wall and incorporates environmental issues such as sustainability and recycling. It will be installed in MoMA PS1’s outdoor courtyard and will be an “urban landscape” during Warm Up, the annual outdoor summer music series.

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The winning project, Party Wall, opening at MoMA PS1 in Long Island City in late June, is a pavilion and flexible experimental space that uses its large-scale, linear form to provide shade for the Warm Up crowds, in addition to other functions.

“CODA’s proposal was selected because of its clever identification and use of locally available resources—the waste products of skateboard-making—to make an impactful and poetic architectural statement within MoMA PS1′s courtyard,” said Pedro Gadanho, Curator in MoMA’s Department of Architecture and Design. “Party Wall arches over the various available spaces, activating them for different purposes, while making evident that even the most unexpected materials can always be reinvented to originate architectural form and its ability to communicate with the public.”

Curbed has a bunch of images of Party Wall. In their comment section, someone says, “Wendy will be sorely missed…she was magnificent.” Wendy was last summer’s structure, and was named one of the Best Buildings of 2012 by the Architizer folks.

CODA Selected as Winner of the 2013 Young Architects Program at MoMA PS1 in New York [MoMA PS1]
MOMA PS1′s “Wendy” named one of the Best Buildings of 2012 by Architizer [QNYC]