The Architectural League’s biennial Emerging Voices program spotlights North American architects, landscape architects, and urban designers who have significant bodies of realized work and the potential to influence their field.

Led by D’Arcy Jones, design firm D’Arcy Jones Architects has developed an expansive portfolio ranging from single and multi-family residential projects and commercial spaces to arts and cultural projects across urban and rural areas of British Columbia. Jones founded the practice in 1999 in Vancouver, Canada. Distinguished by their formal invention and deep commitment to craft, the firm seeks to ask “how habit, function, construction, beauty, and even chance shape the spaces we make,” in their own words.

Hopson Rodstrom Design Co. focuses on a wide range of housing typologies, including single-family, multi-family, transitional housing, and community spaces at a variety of scales. With each design, Hopson Rodstrom Design Co. aims to balance playfulness with sincerity through creative use of material, color, light, and texture. Founded in Los Angeles in 2015 by Nick Hopson and Klara Rodstrom and primarily working in Southern California, the firm’s work is shaped by local context and stakeholders and guided by the belief in “the power of dialogue, collaboration, and respect for diverse experiences and perspectives,” in the firm’s own words.

The presentations will be followed by a conversation with Kate Wagner. Wagner is The Nation’s architecture critic and a journalist based in Chicago and Ljubljana, Slovenia. She was a member of the 2026 Emerging Voices jury.

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