Uploaded August 2023 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
The second evening of lectures by winners of “Uncomfortable,” the 2023 Architectural League Prize for Young Architects + Designers.
In this video, Daisy Ames of Studio Ames and Sean Canty of Studio Sean Canty discuss their practice and projects.
Daisy Ames founded Studio Ames in New York City in 2017. The architectural research and design office responds to two of the built environment’s most pressing crises: the housing crisis and the climate crisis. Intervening at the nexus of the two, the practice’s work examines housing policy, segregation, and repression as well as sustainable construction materials and techniques. The results illuminate often-invisible elements of the built environment and offer a challenge to traditional domestic paradigms.
Sean Canty founded his eponymous studio in Boston in 2017. The studio engages in geometrical explorations, asking social questions of traditional housing typologies and architectural forms. In its own words, Studio Sean Canty aims “to help establish a new normal in residential design, one that foregrounds collectivity, communal living, and higher density.” Through spatial contortions and remixes, Canty’s designs embrace both the social and formal tensions internal to each project.
The second evening of lectures by winners of “Uncomfortable,” the 2023 Architectural League Prize for Young Architects + Designers.
In this video, Daisy Ames of Studio Ames and Sean Canty of Studio Sean Canty discuss their practice and projects.
Daisy Ames founded Studio Ames in New York City in 2017. The architectural research and design office responds to two of the built environment’s most pressing crises: the housing crisis and the climate crisis. Intervening at the nexus of the two, the practice’s work examines housing policy, segregation, and repression as well as sustainable construction materials and techniques. The results illuminate often-invisible elements of the built environment and offer a challenge to traditional domestic paradigms.
Sean Canty founded his eponymous studio in Boston in 2017. The studio engages in geometrical explorations, asking social questions of traditional housing typologies and architectural forms. In its own words, Studio Sean Canty aims “to help establish a new normal in residential design, one that foregrounds collectivity, communal living, and higher density.” Through spatial contortions and remixes, Canty’s designs embrace both the social and formal tensions internal to each project.
