Alberto Andrés Silva Olivo
Andrew Philip Kwai-Hoon Heid
Ashli Marino
Benjamin Crotty
Ce Li
Chengliang Li
Chenxian Wu
Christopher Purpura
Chung Ming Lam
Chuhan Zhou
Cynthia Wang
Dana Al Mathkoor
Daniel Bayne
Daniel van Dyk
Daniel Zuvia
Eleonora Sbrissa
Erin Yook
Feng Zhao
Gaby San Roman Bustinza
George Distefano
Gosia Pawlowska
Guangyu Wang
Harrison Ratcliff Bush
Hyoeun Kim
Jack Hogan
James Kubiniec
Janghee Yoo
Jean Lien
Jennifer Diep
Jennifer Newman
Jialin Yuan
Jie Xie
Jingjing Wu
Jingyuan Yang
Joey Yeh
John Szeto
Junwei Li
Juliana Yang
Katerina Paitazoglou
Kun Qian
Kirby Liu
Li Jin
Lisa Tannenbaum
Lourenco Rebelo de Andrade
Maria Carriero
Marta Rodrigues
Mel Loyola Agosto
Nadya Mikhaylovskaya
Naifei Liu
Nanjia Jiang
Nicholas Stewart
Nicolas Hannequin
Nicole Mattos Toja
Noa Peer
Nour Mobarak
Peter Pak
Po-Yan Hsieh
Praveen Menon
Qiu Jin
Qun Pan
Renjun Liu
Sabrina Wang
Sbrissa Eleonora
Shiyin Zeng
Shunfan Zheng
Shuying Mi
Sophie Maquire
Theo Dimitrasopoulos
Tomas Janka
Tracy Tang
Trendelina Salihu
Veronica Gertrude Watson
Wanpeng Zu
Weiyao Zhang
Weizhong Chen
Wendi Cui
Xiaoyue Yin
Xianghui Kong
Xiangxiang Wang
Xinglu Zhu
Yan Chen
Yawen Jin
Yoki Luo
Yuedong Lin
Zhe Cao
Zhangzheng Yang
Ziwei Deng
We believe design is fundamentally about how we can live together in harmony today, and continue to do so for generations to come. We approach each project to create a higher spiritual, ecological, and cultural harmony between architecture and nature. We are interested in simple gestures that connect people and spaces. We begin each project with a single question: How can we take the best from nature and urban life and connect them?
Form is not the goal, but the result of our design process. We approach every project with a rigorous interrogation of site, context, and constraints. Our design process is holistic and iterative. At each stage, communication is vital as we collaborate with stakeholders to refine a project’s conceptual and formal trajectories. Ultimately, our design process concludes with a clearly defined conceptual problem that is answered through an architectural form. Through this framework, we develop new spatial typologies for living, working, and learning that are dedicated to the harmony of nature, ecology, and urbanism with innovative architecture.
Our expertise is in connecting the individual to the collective: framing how people live convivially at the scale of a room to how communities resiliently adapt at the scale of a city. We research and unpack how the world was organized in the past and present in order to understand how the world can be organized in the future: liberating the built environment to support meaningful, sustainable connections to social and natural ecologies.
NO ARCHITECTURE is a internationally renowned practice based in New York City. The office is known for a diverse range of projects, including Tongzhou Grand Canal in Beijing, Cloud Forest: Qianhai New City Center in Shenzhen, and the Courtyard House, which was awarded the highest Honor Award for the 2017 Housing Design Awards from the BSA/ AIANY. Recent design work and writing have been presented at the Museum of Modern Art, The Positive Economy Forum, The Shenzhen Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism\Architecture, and the Beijing Design Week; and featured in Cultured Magazine, Taschen, AD Germany, Architectural Record, Architectural Digest, Dwell, and Wallpaper*. PIN-UP Architecture Magazine featured NO ARCHITECTURE as one of ten innovative architecture practices in New York City.
Andrew Heid is the founding principal of NO ARCHITECTURE. Currently Visiting Assistant Professor at Pratt Institute and architecture editor at Cultured Magazine, Andrew has taught as an adjunct assistant professor at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation, and as a lecturer at the New York Institute of Technology’s School of Architecture. Previously, Andrew was a lead design architect at REX and Rem Koolhaas' O.M.A. in New York and Rotterdam; prior to this, Rizolli published Ten Canonical Buildings: 1950-2000, which Andrew designed and edited with the prominent architect and educator Peter Eisenman. Andrew studied architecture at Yale, the Architectural Association, and received his M.Arch from Princeton, where his design thesis earned the Suzanne Kolarik Underwood Prize, the graduate school’s highest honor.
NO ARCHITECTURE is a certified minority owned business in New York and Oregon.
Flower House | PDF
Courtyard House | PDF
Cloud Forest: Qianhai New City Center | PDF
Art Villa | PDF
Tongzhou Grand Canal Beijing Master Plan | PDF
Vertical Forest: Huaqiang Fantawild HQ | PDF
Spiral Terrece: ByteDance HQ | PDF
Li Shui Shanshui City Master Plan | PDF
Kongming Lanterns: Shenzhen Natural History Museum | PDF
Forest City: Shenzhen International Qianhai | PDF
Cultural Lanterns: Guoshen Museum | PDF
Opera City: Shenzhen Opera House | PDF
Cultural Palace: Shenzhen Worker's Cultural Palace | PDF
Vertical Hutongs | PDF
Sonnenterrasse | PDF
865 UN Plaza | PDF
Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism Architecture | PDF
Courtyard Housing | PDF
Terrace House | PDF
Science City | PDF
Science Island | PDF
Museum of Contemporary Art | PDF
Unitheque A Dorigny | PDF
Guggenheim Helsinki | PDF
This is not a Park: HI-LO Line | PDF
Low/Wet/Humid | PDF
Berlin Wilderness | PDF
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