PARTNERS

Mimi Hoang, NCARB (b. Saigon, Viet Nam, Licensed in NY State), received a Master of Architecture from Harvard University, and a Bachelor of Science in Architecture from M.I.T. She teaches graduate design studios at Columbia and Yale Universities and has taught at Harvard GSD and UC Berkeley. Prior to co-founding nARCHITECTS, she trained in New York, Boston and Amsterdam.

Eric Bunge, AIA (b. Montreal, Canada, Licensed in NY State), received a Master of Architecture from Harvard University and a Bachelor of Architecture from McGill University. He teaches graduate design studios at Columbia University, and has taught at Harvard University, Yale University, Parsons School of Design, R.I.S.D., Barnard/Columbia Colleges, UC Berkeley and University of Toronto. Prior to co-founding nARCHITECTS, he trained in New York, Boston, Paris, Calcutta and London. Bunge is the recipient of the 2005 Canadian Professional Rome Prize.

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nARCHITECTS brings an open-ended approach to the design process based on clear diagrammatic thinking and an ability to unite a wide array of concerns into a rigorous and cohesive outcome. Complex client identities, layered sites and phasing requirements are unpacked and reframed as straightforward design opportunities. We are a technically precise team, balancing innovation where possible, with tried and tested approaches where necessary. Our approach to site is nuanced and agile - sensitive to opportunities and irreverent to cliches. We approach environmental questions as both a technical and cultural issue, and seek to surpass current thinking that compartmentalizes performance issues. In short, we achieve simple designs that produce a richness and flexibility of experience, with an economy of conceptual and material means.

nARCHITECTS, PLLC (USA/CANADA) was founded in New York City by partners Eric Bunge and Mimi Hoang in 1999. The studio's work has been recognized internationally as a leading practice with awards, exhibitions and publications in over 15 languages. Recent awards and recognition include selection by MoMA for the Rising Currents Exhibition, two AIA NY Design Honor Awards (2007, 2005), an AIA NY Building Type Merit Award (2008), The Architectural League of New York’s Emerging Voices (2006), an AR+D Mention (2006), the Canadian Professional Rome Prize (2005), Architectural Record’s Design Vanguard (2004), the MoMA/P.S.1 Young Architects Program (2004), and a New York Foundation for the Arts grant (2002).

BUILDINGS nARCHITECTS provides comprehensive services for building exteriors and interiors, from zoning studies through design, construction documents, and contract administration during construction. Our approach, characterized by research, prototyping, and digital technologies, allows us to assist clients in a smooth transition from concept to implementation.

URBAN SPACES + ENVIRONMENTS nARCHITECTS designs public urban spaces and dynamic environments that combine inventive programming, material investigation, landscaping and lighting. We work together with landscape architects, planners and lighting designers to create legible and ecological interventions that are specific to cultural, physical and climatic contexts.

INTERIORS nARCHITECTS designs interiors with the unique identities and needs of their users in mind. We aim to achieve more with less, and creatively transform constraints into opportunities. Innovative uses of materials, light and technology give form to well designed spaces that balance design vision with comfort.

INSTALLATIONS + EXHIBITIONS nARCHITECTS designs exhibitions and installations that provoke interaction and interference. Our architecture, informed by low and high technologies, and innovative construction techniques, explores ways in which both architect and user actively engage in and configure social relationships. We also work in varying capacities with art institutions, artists, programmers, media producers and special fabricators.

Eric Bunge, AIA. Mimi Hoang, NCARB

68 Jay Street, #317, Brooklyn, NY 11201

t: 718 260 0845

e: n@nARCHITECTS.com

Mimi Hoang will participate in the "11 Architects - 12 Conversations" PRAXIS symposium, in conjunction with the launch of PRAXIS 11, at P.S.1. MoMA, Friday June 25th, 12:30-6:00pm.

Eric Bunge will present recent work at "Architecture Provisional - Emerging Modes of Architectural Practice in the USA" at the AIA New York Center For Architecture Tuesday May 11th, 6:00pm.

MoMA Rising Currents: Projects for New York's Waterfront opens March 24th. nARCHITECTS' "New Aqueous City" is one of 5 projects featured, alongside work by ARO, LTL, Mathew Baird and SCAPE. March 24–October 11, 2010. See video here, ... or on Youtube

nARCHITECTS selected as one of three finalists to design a shade structure at the entrance of Rafael Moneo's Souks in Beirut, Lebanon.

Mimi Hoang of nARCHITECTS lectures at the CCA on February 22nd, 7pm.

nARCHITECTS contributes a drawing to the Guggenheim Museum for the Exhibition/Auction Contemplating the Void February 12-April 28, 2010.

Eric Bunge and Mimi Hoang of nARCHITECTS are selected as one of 4 team leaders for the MoMA Rising Currents Workshop and Exhibition (see MoMA press release). The 4 Architect teams will design proposals for New York's waterfront, resulting in an exhibion at The Museum of Modern Art between March 24–October 11, 2010.

nARCHITECTS is one of 8 firms selected by NYC Department of Parks & Recreation to provide architectural design services.

nARCHITECTS' Villa-Villa house in Ordos is reproduced at the Seoul Design Olympiad as a 1:7.5 scale 'thermal' model that maps temperature variations (with Arup NY). October 9-29. See Poster.

nARCHITECTS participates in the Gwangju Design Biennale with an installation: "Soswaewon Double".

Eric Bunge of nARCHITECTS lectures at l'Ecole Speciale d'Architecture, Paris: "CONTROL".

Eric Bunge and Mimi Hoang of nARCHITECTS lecture at Yale University: "CONTROL".

DD 29: nARCHITECTS/Eric Bunge & Mimi Hoang_2000-2008, is now available in additional bookstores: Amazon.com; William Stout Books; Urban Center Books; NAi Bookseller; PlanLibre; and various others internationally, distributed by Idea Books.

nARCHITECTS is selected to design a renovation of NYC Department of Transportation's maintenance facility at Harper Street Yards, Queens, as part of the DDC Design + Construction Excellence Program (D+CEP).

Villa VIlla by nARCHITECTS in Ordos 100 exhibition during Art Basel: "The inevitable cultural negotiations when building a city in the 21st Century: an exhibition on architecture, urbanisation and globalisation with 100 architectural designs" June 10th – 14th, 2009; Open daily 5PM-8PM.

After presenting a preliminary design in January 2008, nARCHITECTS is selected as the architects of a new building envelope for Lebanon's most prominent department store: the 300,000sf ABC Dbayeh.

nARCHITECTS presents 50% DD for Ellicott Park, at the Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus.

"Plate Shelf" by nARCHITECTS is distributed by lerival at the ICFF (International Contemporary Furniture Fair), New York, May 16-19.

Eric Bunge and Mimi Hoang of nARCHITECTS lecture at the Structure & Ornament Symposium, UNAM and Universidad Lasalle, Mexico City.

A Conceptual masterplan by Starr Whitehouse landscape architects and nARCHITECTS, commisioned by the Jersey City Waterfront Parks Conservancy for the design of a new park at Paulus Hook, NJ, will be unveiled on March 24th at 7pm.

Eric Bunge and Mimi Hoang of nARCHITECTS lecture at the Escuela Superior Tecnica de Arquitectura/UPM, March 16th, 12:30

nARCHITECTS' Switch Building receives a 2009 AIA New York Building Type Merit Award in the category of Housing.

"CONTROL": Eric Bunge and Mimi Hoang of nARCHITECTS lecture at Columbia University GSAPP, January 28th, 6:30pm.

"Frederic Kiesler: Co-Realities," organized by the Drawing Center and designed by nARCHITECTS wins International Association of Art Critics (AICA/USA) national arts award for Best Show in a Non-profit Gallery or Space.

DD 29: nARCHITECTS/Eric Bunge & Mimi Hoang_2000-2008, nARCHITECTS' First Monograph, is now in bookstores: Prairie Avenue Bookshop; Canadian Center for Architecture, NAi Bookseller; PlanLibre; and various others internationally, distributed by Idea Books.

Storefront for Art & Architecture hosts a booklaunch for nARCHITECTS' new monograph with Design Documents (DD 29: nARCHITECTS/Eric Bunge & Mimi Hoang_2000-2008). Advance copies for sale at the booklaunch. www.storefrontnews.org

Eric Bunge of nARCHITECTS participates in "ORDOS: Nine Houses by GSD Faculty, a critical discussion with Jeff Kipnis", at the Harvard Graduate School of Design, November 3rd 4-6pm.

Villa-Villa by nARCHITECTS featured in exhibition at The Architectural League of New York October 11-November 26th. Opening October 10th 7-9pm, and presentation October 17th 7pm, 2008

Eric Bunge and Mimi Hoang of nARCHITECTS lecture at the Harvard Graduate School of Design, September 23rd, 6:30pm.

nARCHITECTS presents Schematic Design of Villa-Villa in Ordos, Inner Mongolia.

nARCHITECTS lectures about Switch Building at the Architectural League NY, as part of the New York Designs juried lecture series, 457 Madison Ave, June 5th, 7pm.

nARCHITECTS receives a NYFA grant, Lily Auchincloss Fellows, for Architecture & Environmental Structures.

nARCHITECTS exhibition design of "Frederick Kiesler: Co-Realities", opens at The Drawing Center in New York, 6-8pm, April 17th, 2008, open till July 24th.

Mimi Hoang of nARCHITECTS lectures at Kent State University College of Architetcure and Environmental Design.

Eric Bunge and Mimi Hoang of nARCHITECTS participate in "Matter of Facts: Architecture and the Generation of Design Information", March 28th, 9:30-5:00, Betts Auditorium.

nARCHITECTS is selected to design a renovation of the Betty Shabazz Health Center in Brooklyn, as part of the DDC Design + Construction Excellence Program (D+CEP).

Mimi Hoang of nARCHITECTS lectures at University of Michigan Taubman College of Architecture.

nARCHITECTS is one of 100 international firms selected to design one of 100 1,000m2 villas in Ordos, Inner Mongolia.

nARCHITECTS is one of 10 international firms selected by the City of Paris, each of which will design a public space in Porte de Montreuil, as a prelude to an urban revitalization scheme. Construction estimated for 2009.

nARCHITECTS is one of 6 US firms shortlisted for the design of a new 30,000sf building for the Blaffer Gallery - The Art Museum of the University of Houston.

nARCHITECTS commisioned to design "Frederick Kiesler: Co-Realities", an exhibition/installation of the Viennese architect's drawings at The Drawing Center in New York, opening April 17th, 2008.

nARCHITECTS' Switch Building is opening Thursday, October 25, 5-10pm. 109 Norfolk Street (between Delancey and Rivington), NY. Please see flyer.

nARCHITECTS commisioned to design interior renovation of Interbrand's 40,000sf headquarters in New York.

nARCHITECTS receives a New York State Council of the Arts grant for research on architectural inventions responding to climate.

nARCHITECTS is one of 6 finalists for the Living Steel housing competition, on the Wuhan, China site. See all 18 entries for the 3 sites here.

nARCHITECTS to be featured in exhibition "Young Americans. Neue Architektur in den USA" at the DAM (Deutsches Architekturmuseum), Frankfurt, June 27 2007 - Sep 9th, 2007.

nARCHITECTS, with new partners SCAPE Landscape Architecture and Linnaea Tillett Lighting Design, begins Schematic Design of Phase 1: Ellicott Park, scheduled for construction in 2009.

nARCHITECTS moves to larger offices at: 68 Jay Street, #317, Brooklyn, NY 11201 . t . 718 260 0845

nARCHITECTS is one of 24 firms prequalified by New York's Department of Design and Construction for work on projects <$10M, as part of the Design + Construction Excellence Program (D+CEP).

nARCHITECTS receives an AIA New York Chapter Design Honor Award for Windshape, Projects category. See the exhibition at the Architecture Center April 9th-July 7th, 2007.

nARCHITECTS receives an AR+D Honourable Mention for Windshape.

Eric Bunge of nARCHITECTS lectures at Princeton University School of Architecture.

Eric Bunge of nARCHITECTS lectures at Dalhousie University School of Architecture.

nARCHITECTS installation "Unpacking" , for the reveal of a new Lexus LS 460,was on view at the World Financial Center Plaza in NYC. The installation transformed over a 5 day period, from Monday Oct 16th to Friday Oct 20th. Press photos and contact.

nARCHITECTS' Switch Building can be visited as part of Open House New York on Oct 7th and 8th. See OHNY website for details.

nARCHITECTS speaks at the first Pecha Kucha New York, at the Bohemian Hall and Beer Garden in Astoria Queens. See Pecha Kucha website for details.

"63% BUILT / 37% NOT BUILT": nARCHITECTS lectures at Avery Hall, Wood Auditorium, 6:30. Admission Free.

Two ephemeral pavilions designed to respond to the wind open on July 7th in Lacoste, France, and will be open to the public throughout the summer. Wind Shape is commisioned by the Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD). See webpage and construction diary (fabrication by nARCHITECTS and SCAD students + exhibition crew).

nARCHITECTS was commissioned to design the exterior public spaces and streetscapes for the 100 acre Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus. Construction of Phase 1 ("Ellicott Park") projected to begin Spring 2008.

P.O.R.T. (a consortium of design firms including nARCHITECTS) was today declared the runner up in the Toronto Waterfront competition (won by West 8). See Jury's report.

nARCHITECTS featured in Milan exhibition: Mixed Media, May 25-28.

P.O.R.T. (a consortium of design firms including nARCHITECTS) presents shortlist submission at BCE place (see Official TWRC website for competition panels), and vote on the Toronto Star's Poll. See animation of P.O.R.T. scheme (by Eric Schuldenfrei).

nARCHITECTS has been selected as a finalist for the design of exterior public spaces in the Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus.

P.O.R.T. (a consortium of design firms including nARCHITECTS) has been selected as finalists for Toronto's Waterfront Competition. Official TWRC website. Globe & Mail article.

nARCHITECTS is selected as Emerging Voices 2006 by the NY Architectural League. Lecture in NYC on Thursday March 2nd, 6:30pm, Scholastic Auditorium, 557 Broadway (bet Prince/Spring). Lecture also at the National Building Museum in Washington DC on March 1st, 6:30.

Eric Bunge and Mimi Hoang lecture at Universita di Roma 3 (organized by InARCH), and at Nitro.

Eric Bunge and Mimi Hoang of nARCHITECTS present and discuss Canopy MoMA/PS1 at the AIA NY Chapter 6:00-8:00pm, Tuesday November 29th.

Mimi Hoang of nARCHITECTS lectures at University of Philadelphia, School of Architecture, 6:30pm.

nARCHITECTS lectures at University of Toronto, AL&D, on Tuesday Nov 8th, 6:30pm, rm 103.

nARCHITECTS receives an AIA New York Chapter Honor Award for Canopy, Projects category. Exhibition at Architecture Center Oct 11th - Dec 6th.

Eric Bunge receives the Canadian Professional Prix de Rome. to fund a 2 year research project by nARCHITECTS entitled "Heat and Light as Vehicle for Architectural Invention and Imagination in four climates". nARCHITECTS also receives additional funding and sustainability consulting from Davis Langdon & Seah Intn'l's Academic Foundation.

nARCHITECTS (in collaboration with Batwin & Robin Productions, Sawad Brooks/OPEN-WORK, and Paul Yarin/BLACKDUST), has been selected as a finalist for the design of Vital Signs, a permanent interactive installation in the atrium of the Liberty Science Center, NJ.

nARCHITECTS lecture at theNew School of Architecture of the Politechnic University of Puerto Rico School of Architecture, 6:30, main auditorium.

nARCHITECTS lecture at Berkeley University, 112 Wurster Hall, Wednesday March 30th, 7pm, see link and map.

"Young Talents Who are Changing Our World": Metro newspaper selects nARCHITECTS as one of "5 Under 35" young architecture firms in New York.

"Party Wall", an interactive installation opened on Wednesday, March 9th 6pm (open till April 23rd) in the Project Room at Artists Space, 38 Greene street, 3rd floor, New York.

nARCHITECTS Canopy was exhibited at the Kunst Werke Berlin, Institute for Contemporary Art, December 14-January 9th, 2005.

nARCHITECTS is selected by Architectural Record as one of eleven Design Vanguard firms.

nARCHITECTS' breaks ground on a new 7 story apartment building + art gallery in the Lower East Side, Manhattan See the client's website...

nARCHITECTS lecture and solo show at Parsons School of Design, 25 E13th Street, 2nd floor, NYC, Nov 8-Dec 4.

nARCHITECTS' completes a modest renovation of avant garde performance venue The Kitchen 512 W 19th St, NY.

nARCHITECTS' Canopy will not be dismantled until end of October. P.S.1 is open Thursday-Monday from 12-6.

nARCHITECTS has completed fabrication and installation of Canopy. See images of Canopy under construction and in use. Opening on Sunday June 27th, noon-6pm. nARCHITECTS is also exhibiting construction drawings, models, and a 7 minute documentary film (by Monica Brand and Francisco Lopez) on the construction of the project , in P.S.1's corner gallery, ground floor.

nARCHITECTS lectures on 'Canopy' at Parsons School of Design on Monday April 12.

nARCHITECTS wins the 5th annual P.S.1/MoMA Young Architects Program with 'Canopy', to open on June 27th.

nARCHITECTS was selected as a finalist in the 5th annual P.S.1/MoMA. Young Architects Program

nARCHITECTS exhibited their recent work at the Architecture Department's BEB Gallery, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence RI. Nov 25th - Dec 10th, 2003 - see images.

nARCHITECTS has been selected as the U.S. designers of the public photography exhibit of Yann Arthus Bertrand's aerial photographs: Earth From Above, at the American Museum of Natural History, NY. Opening has been delayed to 2005.

'Interference': nARCHITECTS lectures on their recent work at Cornell School of Architecture 157 E. Sibley Hall, October 7th, 6:00pm.

nARCHITECTS works with artist Sarah Sze on 3 sculptures: The Triple Point of Water (Whitney Museum, July 3 – October 9, 2003), a permanent sculpture in Washington at Metro One, due to open Fall 03, and a sculpture for the Public Art Fund in Manhattan.

nARCHITECTS participates in Design Parade, a conference about architectural pedagogy, at the University of Alicante, Spain.

Eric Bunge leads a group of 4 Parsons students in a project for a vertical/stacked campus - a visualization of possible design changes to the Parsons School of Design campus on 5th Ave/W 13th. The project was presented on April 10th to the Board of Trustees.

'Interference': nARCHITECTS lectures on their recent work at McGill University's Fall Lecture Series on Monday November 4th, 6:30pm.

nARCHITECTS designs an installation for the show 'New Hotels for Global Nomads' at the Cooper Hewitt National Design Museum in New York (with fieldOFFICE). Opening on October 29th.

nARCHITECTS is invited to participate in the 4th ArchiLab 2002: "Economy of the Earth". Conference May 27-30; exhibition May 30-july 14, Orléans, France.

nARCHITECTS receives a 2002 New York Foundation For the Arts fellowship for Architecture / Environmental Structures..

nARCHITECTS receives a 2002 Michael Kalil Fellowship for Smart Design, from Parsons School of Design, for participation in ArchiLab 2002.

Eric Bunge and Mimi Hoang of nARCHITECTS participated in the International Conference and Workshop "Architecture and Mass Media" at Anahuac University, Mexico City.

Eric Bunge presents the Ciud@d.es project "Accessibility, Choice, Mobility: Linking the Virtual and Physical buildings" at of Virtu@l Educa Congress in Madrid on 06.28.01.

nARCHITECTS wins the Architectural League's Young Architects Forum Prize, 2001. Theme: "City Limits". Exhibition May 17th - July 25th; lecture was on May 24th at the Urban Center, 457 Madison Ave, NYC.

nARCHITECTS moves to a new storefront office at Essex Street Studios, 147 Essex Street, NY NY 10002

nARCHITECTS teams up with Ciud@d.es to develop Information Technology training and research centers for the disabled in Murcia, Spain. Eric Bunge presents concepts for the future virtual and physical buildings at the University of Murcia on 01.17.01, and at the Ist Congress of Educ@Red in Madrid on 01.20.01.

nARCHITECTS (in collaboration with fieldOFFICE+ Arkitektgruppen, Ove Arup& Partners NY, Bigert & Bergstrom) are pre-qualified to participate in the final phase of an International competition to design a new Art House for Hotel Pro Forma.

nARCHITECTS (in collaboration with fieldOFFICE) win 1st prize in phase 1 of an International competition to design a new Art House for Hotel Pro Forma in Orestad, Denmark.