Leandro Piazzi, Lecturer, of BALSA CROSETTO PIAZZI has been awarded the Architectural League Prize for Young Architects and Designers, along with his partners Juan Manuel Balsa and Rocío Crosetto Brizzio.

From The Architecture League NY:

Established in 1981, the Architectural League Prize for Young Architects + Designers is a biennial juried portfolio competition for early-career practitioners in North America, organized around a theme.

BALSA CROSETTO PIAZZI is an architecture firm based in the United States and Argentina. Founded in 2014, the practice is led by Juan Manuel Balsa, Rocio Crosetto Brizzio, and Leandro Piazzi. Grounded in thoughtful attention to materiality and building methods, BALSA CROSETTO PIAZZI describes their design approach as inclusive of “the networks and cycles of materials, people, ecologies, knowledge, and resources that are part of the construction of architecture,” in their own words. The firm works across multiple scales in both urban and rural contexts, from public installations to the design and construction of houses, gathering spaces, and other commissions.

BALSA CROSETTO PIAZZI is the recipient of a 2024 Independent Projects Grant for the project In-Process: Alternative Methods in Reading Evolving Buildings. Their work has been exhibited at the Venice Biennale, the Ibero-American Biennial of Architecture and Urbanism, and The Miami Center for Architecture and Design, among other venues.

Leandro Piazzi holds a Bachelor of Architecture from the Facultad de Arquitectura, Urbanismo y Diseño at the Universidad Nacional de Córdoba and a Master of Science in Advanced Architectural Projects from the Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura at the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid. He is a full time lecturer at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute’s School of Architecture.

Recent projects include:

• Quincho Built with locally crafted bricks, this pavilion on a lakeside site is designed to host the Asado, an Argentinian social and culinary tradition of celebratory gatherings centered around a meal of grilled meat.
• Rural Restroom Inspired by the industrial landscape of the Pampas plains, this bathroom complex for dairy farmers outside of Córdoba, Argentina is primarily composed of galvanized steel sheets folded to achieve structural capacity.
• House with a Tilted Roof Thick brick walls, a prefabricated steel roof, and two structural concrete beams that facilitate rainwater collection and sun protection make up this home for young professionals in a transitional region between the city and countryside.

June 25, 2025:
Join BALSA CROSETTO PIAZZI for the 2025 League Prize Virtual Series here
moderated by Liz Gálvez

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