Rome's MAXXI museum today announced the finalists for its 2013 Young Architects Program. Like its sister program at MoMA's PS1 courtyard in Queens, N.Y., the five  offices below will compete to design a temporary pavilion for summer events in the MAXXI Plaza. The finalists will present their designs in January 2013 and the winner's project will debut in June. This is the third iteration of the Young Architects Program at MAXXI.

The finalists are:

bam! (Bottega di Architettura Metropolitana), Turin (Alberto Bottero, Valeria Bruni, Simona Della Rocca, Fabio Vignolo)

AK0 (Architettura a Kilometro Zero), Rome (Gianni Puri, Laura Di Virgilio, Alessandra Fasoli, Stefan Pollak, Enrica Siracusa)

LABORATORIO PERMANENTE, Milan (Angelica Sylos Labini, Nicola Russi)

Matilde Cassani, Milan 

LOOP (Landscape & Architecture Design), Rotterdam, The Netherlands (Francesco Garofalo, Silvia Lupini, Francesca Sartori).