The Anne Rieselbach Architectural League Prize is a biennial competition, lecture series, and exhibition organized by The Architectural League and its Young Architects and Designers Committee. Open to designers ten years or less out of school, the competition draws entries from around North America. The winners’ lectures and installations provide a lively public forum for the discussion of their work and ideas. Winners are chosen through a portfolio competition juried by distinguished architects, artists, and critics, including the Young Architects and Designers Committee. This committee, whose rotating membership consists of past League Prize honorees, is also responsible for selecting the year’s theme and jurors. In 2026, as Anne Rieselbach concluded her four-decade tenure as the League’s program and membership director, the competition was named in her honor, recognizing her dedication to helping shape the careers and voices of generations of architects and designers.

Anne Rieselbach is a curator and cultural leader whose work has shaped generations of architects and designers through her four decades at The Architectural League of New York. Joining the League in 1986, she developed and led many of its signature programs, including the League Prize, Emerging Voices, the Student Program, and the Mentorship Program. Through exhibitions, lectures, competitions, and public programs, she has played a central role in advancing emerging voices in architecture and design. In 2026, she concluded her tenure as the League’s program and membership director and continues to serve the organization in an advisory capacity. Rieselbach has also served on the board of Open House New York, the editorial board of The Architect’s Newspaper, and as a juror and critic for architecture schools, grant programs, and design competitions. She was awarded an Architecture Award by the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 2019 and honorary membership in American Institute of Architects New York chapter.

Founded in 1881, The Architectural League of New York supports critically transformative work in the allied fields that shape the built environment. As a vital, independent forum, the League stimulates thinking, debate, and action on today’s converging crises of racism, inequity, and climate change, in service of a more livable and just world.