Total Housing 01: Apartments exhibition, opening today at 97 Kenmare Street in New York.  The exhibition is collaboration with Storefront for Art and Architecture and Actar Publishers.  The work on view features five winners in addition to ten honorable mentions from the Total Housing: Apartments competition that ran on Architizer.com in November. To qualify, architects on the website submitted apartments demonstrating innovation through material applications, programmatic arrangements, technological implementations or radical conceptual propositions. 
 
The exhibition will be accompanied by a newsprint publication edited by Actar (available for sale for $3 during the exhibition). Several of the architect teams will elaborate on their work in a live gallery performance during the opening from 7pm to 9pm, Tuesday December 14th.
 
The winning projects have been conceived by:

• H20 architectes [France] - project here
• Nabito Arquitectura [Spain] - project here
• Tiago Barros [USA] - project here
• J. Matthew Thomas [USA] - project here 
• Pratt Institute [Instructors: Robert Langhorn, Julie Torres Moskovitz, Corey Yurkovich] [USA] - project here 

 
Other projects to be presented are designed by the following firms:

• UUfie [Japan]
• Arquitectura G [Jonathan Arnabat, Aitor Fuentes, Igor Urdampilleta, Jordy Ayala-Bril] [Spain]
• WY-TO Architects [France]
• Bogdan & Van Broek Architects [Belgium]
• Snarkitecture [USA]
• Yuko Shibata [Japan]
• Jordan Parnass Digital Architecture [USA]
• Squire and Partners [UK]
• E2 Eckert Eckert [Switzerland]

 
In addition to the publication and exhibition, winning architects receive $1000.  Funding for Total Housing: Apartments was made possible by the support of Sciame, Miele and National Reprographics.
 
The competition is one of many initiatives Architizer is participating in that assist architects in the wake of the economic downturn.  Upcoming competitions include a client giveaway to redesign New York City’s worst bathroom and a prize to award the best unwinning entries to design challenges submitted in 2010.