Event Pass Information Event Pass TypePriceQuantity In-Person - Student with Valid IDFREE 0 1 In-Person - General Public$15.00 USD 0 1 2 3 4 In-Person - AIA Member (Not AIANY)$15.00 USD 0 1 2 3 4 Zoom Ticket - Student with Valid Email AddressFREE 0 1 Zoom Ticket - General Public$7.00 USD 0 1 Zoom Ticket - AIA Member (Not AIANY)$7.00 USD 0 1 Event Details The AIANY Interiors Committee launched its Recipe for a Room competition in 2020 to benefit NYC design students who had lost their summer internship opportunities, and to raise awareness and financial support for the New York City Restaurant Employees Relief Fund. Each following competition cycle has focused on a different prompt, model-building media, and local beneficiary. For the program’s five-year anniversary in 2025, the theme Food and Culture acknowledges that we are once again experiencing global instability due to funding cuts for global help organizations and suppression of cultural differences. Join us as eight teams, each comprised of a student and architect mentor, present their small-scale Places of Food and Culture—rooms for food preparation and enjoyment. Two winners will be selected during the event: an audience favorite and a judges’ favorite. The projects will explore food as the center of community celebrations, inspired by exquisite culinary creations that are like art, and recipes as food traditions passed down in families. Food distribution within food deserts can be a lifeline. Net proceeds from the 2025 program will benefit Rethink Food, a NYC non-profit that bridges the gap between excess food and the communities that need it. Student and Mentor Teams: Ashley Guarquila, NJIT Hillier College of Architecture and Design Mentor: August Atzenweiler Tate Horstkotte, New York School of Interior Design Mentor: Roderick Cruz, AIA Etty Jajati, CCNY Spitzer School of Architecture Mentor: Luz Disla, RA Sergei Konchekov, Columbia GSAPP Mentor: Samantha Josephat, AIA Hong Anh (Jenny) Nguyen Le, Pratt Institute Mentor: Christina Galati, AIA Kevin She, Parsons School of Design | The New School Mentor: Luz Wallace Ryan Wang, Cornel AAP NYC Mentor Eric Gering, AIA JiaLin Yue, Columbia GSAPP Mentor: Jean-Gabriel Neukomm, AIA Jury: Brian Messana, FAIA, Partner, Messana O'Rorke Dr. Sharon Egretta Sutton, FAIA, Distinguished Visiting Professor of Architecture, Parsons School of Design Adam Yarinsky, FAIA, Founding Principal, Architecture Research Office (ARO)