Event Pass Information Event Pass TypePriceQuantity In-Person Ticket - General Public$10.00 USD 0 1 Event Details Kick off your Halloween weekend at the Center for Architecture’s fifth annual Pumpkitecture! competition, organized in collaboration with the Archtober Festival! New York City-based firms will go gourd to gourd to once again compete for the Pritzkerpumpkin. Who will squash the competition? What firm will succeed in summoning the Brutal ghost of Marcel Booeuer or invoking the spirit of Michael Gravesyard? Will the Crowned Curibita be inspired by Frank-o-Lloyd Wright’s Guggengourd? See for yourself at Pumpkitecture! Participating Firms Bravo Inc DLR Group KLE Consulting Lutron Mitchell Giurgola New York Review of Architecture Robert A.M. Stern Architects Shakespeare, Gordon, Vlado: Architects SO – IL Jury Michael Caton, AIA, Head of Technical Computing, Juno; Incoming 2024 AIANY Board Member Camila Schaulsohn, Cofounder, Pumpkitecture Ben Dreith, US Editor, Dezeen Julia Gamolina, Founder, Madame Architecture; Associate Principal, Ennead Architects Come witness architects live-carve extraordinary structures and vote for the People’s Pumpkin. The carving will commence at 6:15 and run through 7:30. The competing architecture and design firms will briefly defend their designs, after which jurors will deliberate and pick the winning pumpkin. Enjoy spooky snacks and libations while you watch the competition! Are you part of an architecture or design firm that would like to participate in this year's competition? Register your firm here.