Pumpkitecture! Architectural Pumpkin Carving Competition

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.