The Mies Crown Hall Americas Prize has announced the four finalists for the 2022 edition of MCHAP.emerge, a biennial award given in recognition of works carried out by architecture practices less than 10 years in operation.

Completed between 2018 and 2021, the projects were selected by a 6-member jury chaired by Sandra Barclay, a founding partner at Barclay & Crousse.

The winner will be announced on 21 September at the SR Crown Hall of the Illinois Institute of Technology, designed by Mies van der Rohe.

The shortlisted works are:

Estudio Mola: 8 Houses, Castelar (Argentina). Photo: Javier Agustín Rojas

Izquierdo Lehmann: Alcántara Housing ensemble, Las Condes (Chile). Photo: Roland Halbe

Asociación Semillas para el desarrollo sostenible: Big House, Otica (Community Centre), Río Tambo (Peru). Photo: Eleazar Augusto Cuadros Choque

School of Architecture UNAM / Loreta Castro Reguera, José Pablo Ambrosi (Taller Capital): Colosio Embankment Dam, Nogales (Mexico). Photo: Rafael Gamo