Editor?s Note: This post was originally published in November 2015.
This officially wraps Curbed awards season 2015. Catch up on all our coverage of the first-ever class of Groundbreakers right here and find out how these cutting-edge architects avoid cliché, design with communities in mind, and push the envelope of technology.
Q&A: Introducing the 2015 class with a group interview about ideal audiences, learning from failure, dream projects, and more.
Profile: Prefab evangelist Jeffrey Sommers of Square Root Architecture in Chicago

Photo via MASS Design Group.
The Ilima Primary School in the Congo.

Profile: MASS Design Group empowers underserved communities at home and abroad Profile: Family New York defies the norm in fusing architecture with pop culture (and a monumental swimming pool)
Profile: El Dorado Inc. has established a prolific career designing modern in Kansas City, Missouri
Profile: Cambridge partners Aamodt/Plumb demystify the home building process
Profile: Iwamoto Scott uses digital fabrication to push the envelope for Silicon Valley office design

Photos by Mark Wickens.

Profile: Bureau V, the designing minds behind a landmark new performance space in Brooklyn
Profile: Design as a humanitarian mission for Philadelphia?s KSS Architects
· All Groundbreakers 2015 coverage [Curbed]

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