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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
Jianqing Shou
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 signature architectural approach is transparent, flexible spaces between architecture and nature. Our work, which includes private residences, museums and other buildings around the country and the world, tends to have what we call a “matrix plan”: rooms that circle a central area and can either be closed off into separate rooms, such as sleeping spaces for nighttime, or kept open to use as offices and lounges during the day. Such a layout is not only more efficient, but also creates a more communal and spiritual awareness of living.

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, AD Italia, Architectural Record, Architectural Digest, Architect Magazine, L'Architecture d'Aujourd'hui, Dwell, The Oregonian, Wallpaper*, and The Wall Street Journal. 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.

2022	165 Charles: Urban Tree House, featured in “They Had Space to Spare Inside Their Huge Manhattan Condo. So They Built Two Treehouses,” Wall Street Journal \| LINK \| PDF
2022	Flower House, Courtyard House, and Cloud Forest featured in “Next Progressives: No Architecture,” Architect Magazine \| LINK \| PDF
2022	Courtyard House featured in Dezeen "Ten homes centred around bright interior courtyards" \| LINK \| PDF
2021	Flower House featured in “Una casa visionaria a forma di fiore, in Massachusetts,” AD Italia \| LINK \| PDF
2021	Ali Van's "Blue I Am" opens at the Courtyard House, 10/10/21-5/31/22 \| LINK \| PDF
2021	Flower House featured in “Architecture et melting-pot,” L'Architecture d'Aujourd'hui, no. 443 \| LINK \| PDF
2021	Fourteen30 Contemporary's "Bitter Cherry, Bleeding Heart" opens at the Courtyard House, 6/12/21-8/15/21 \| LINK \| PDF
2021	Flower House featured in “Six Overlapping Pavilions Create a Flower-Shaped Home in Massachusetts,” Dwell Magazine \| LINK \| PDF
2021	Flower House featured in “Full Circle,” Dwell Magazine, January-February, pp. 50-57 \| LINK \| PDF
2021	Flower House featured in “Full Circle,” Dwell Magazine, Apple News \| LINK \| PDF
2020	Cloud Forest featured in “Re-Source,” an exhibition showcasing 26 of the most current and innovative practices in the discipline \| LINK \| PDF
2020	Courtyard House featured in “An Architect Designed This Oregon Home for Two Crucial Clients: His Parents,” Wall Street Journal, September 11, p. M5 \| LINK \| PDF
2020	Courtyard House featured in Mansion Global “An Architect Designed This Oregon Home for Two Crucial Clients: His Parents” \| LINK \| PDF
2020	Courtyard House featured in Wall Street Journal “An Architect Designed This Oregon Home for Two Crucial Clients: His Parents” \| LINK \| PDF
2020	Courtyard House featured in Wall Street Journal “Keeping It In The Family” \| LINK \| PDF
2020	Courtyard House featured in Dezeen "Faceted glazed courtyard pierces Oregon house by No Architecture" \| LINK \| PDF
2020	Courtyard House featured in Cultured Magazine \| LINK \| PDF
2019	TRANSPARENCY: ON NATURE AND THE OUTDOORS opens at the Courtyard House, 10/5/19 \| LINK \| PDF
2019	Cocktails at the Courtyard House, “Dine and Design” benefit cocktail party for the Architecture Foundation of Oregon, 10/5/19 \| LINK \| PDF
2019	Courtyard House featured in Cultured Magazine, Sep/ Oct/ Nov 2019, p. 90 \| LINK \| PDF
2019	Courtyard House in Oregonian, August, 20th 2019, p. C3 \| LINK \| PDF
2019	NO ARCHITECTURE SHORTLISTED FOR QIANHAI NEW CITY CENTER \| LINK \| PDF
2019	Courtyard House aired and featured on Luxe.tv, "Courtyard House, a residence with original aesthetics" \| LINK \| PDF
2019	“绿色建筑圈子的闯入者 \| 访谈纽约建筑师Andrew Heid,” “Intruder in the Green Building Circle \| Interview with New York Architect Andrew Heid,” 12/22/18, Li Wenhai, 李文海" \| LINK \| PDF
2019	Andrew Heid interviewed for ATU China, ATU观筑, “观筑推介 × NO ARCHITECTURE事务所，纽约,” Viewing and Promoting × NO ARCHITECTURE Office, New York,”" \| LINK \| PDF
2018	Courtyard House featured in Cultured Magazine, Dec/ Jan/ Feb 2019, p. 80 \| LINK \| PDF
2018	Invited lecturer, “Rough Void” at “PLEA 2018: Smart and Healthy Within the Two-Degree Limit,” 34th International Conference on Passive and Low Energy Architecture; Dec 10-12, 2018, Hong Kong, China \| LINK \| PDF
2018	Flower House featured in “Cultured 25,” Cultured Magazine, winter, p. 73 \| LINK \| PDF
2018	Courtyard House receives highest Honor Award for 2017 Boston Society of Architects/ AIA New York Housing Award \| LINK \| PDF
2017	Vertical Hutongs featured in “Vertical Green Neighborhoods Proposed for Residential Redevelopment in Chinese Cities,” Revitalization News, May 1st \| LINK \| PDF
2017	Vertical Hutongs featured in “NO ARCHITECTURE Emphasizes Urban Sustainability and Interaction with Alternative Residential Towers in China,” ArchDaily, April 15th \| LINK \| PDF
2016	Invited lecturer, “Housing and Habitat” at the Beijing International Design Week, Beijing, China
2016	Invited lecturer on “Housing in the Fourth Industrial Revolution,” Positive Economy Forum, Le Havre, France \| LINK
2016	Courtyard House nominated for the MCHAP.emerge, Mies Crown Hall Americas Prize at the IIT \| LINK \| PDF
2016	Courtyard House featured in “This House Gets Better with Age,” Dwell, April 14th \| LINK \| PDF
2016	Courtyard House featured in “7 Modern Homes in the Forest,” Dwell, April 6th \| LINK \| PDF
2016	Courtyard House featured in “6 Homes Framed by Trees,” Dwell, April 3th \| LINK \| PDF
2016	Courtyard House featured in “6 Modern Home Offices We Love,” Dwell, February 9th \| LINK
2016	NOA exhibited “From Collective Form to Ecological Urbanism: Towards Climate Resilient Housing” at the 2015 BI-CITY BIENNALE OF URBANISM ARCHITECTURE, Shenzhen, China, December-February \| LINK
2015	Courtyard House published in Architecture Now! 2015, Philip Jodidio, Taschen, October, 2015, pp. 38-43, 487 \| LINK \| PDF
2015	Courtyard House featured in “6 Modern Retreats in the Forest,” Dwell, December 29th \| LINK \| PDF
2015	Guggenheim Helsinki, Flower House, and Courtyard House featured in profile in “The Topologist,” Cultured, winter, pp. 260-263 \| LINK \| PDF
2015	“From Collective Form to Ecological Urbanism: Towards Climate Resilient Housing” featured in Re-Living the City, 2015 BI-CITY BIENNALE OF URBANISM ARCHITECTURE, Shenzhen, China, December, pp. 354-355
2015	“From Collective Form to Ecological Urbanism: Towards Climate Resilient Housing” featured in Guide Book, 2015 BI-CITY BIENNALE OF URBANISM ARCHITECTURE, Shenzhen, China, December, pp. 248-249
2015	Courtyard House featured in “5 Spaces Transformed by Interior Plants,” Dwell, November 3rd \| LINK \| PDF
2015	Courtyard House featured in “7 Homes With Dramatic Valley Locations,” Dwell, September 15th \| LINK \| PDF
2015	Courtyard House featured in “6 Creative Ways to Bring Light Into the Home,” Dwell, July 9th \| LINK \| PDF
2015	Courtyard House featured in “7 Modern Homes in the Forest,” Dwell, April 6th \| LINK \| PDF
2015	Courtyard House featured in “6 Homes Framed by Trees,” Dwell, April 3rd \| LINK \| PDF
2014	Courtyard House featured in “Projetos Selecionados,” ArchDaily Brasil, October 27th \| LINK \| PDF
2014	Courtyard House featured in “The Great Indoor-Outdoors,” Architectural Digest, August 31st \| LINK \| PDF
2014	Courtyard House featured in “Obras Destacadas,” ArchDaily Mexico, August 20th \| LINK \| PDF
2014	Courtyard House featured in “This Contemporary Courtyard House is a Modern, Multi-Generational Masterwork,” The Coolist, August \| LINK \| PDF
2014	Courtyard House featured on Ignant, August \| LINK \| PDF
2014	Courtyard House featured in “Bungalow in Oregon von NOA,” BauNetz, August \| LINK \| PDF
2014	Courtyard House featured in “Selected Works,” ArchDaily, August 4th \| LINK \| PDF
2014	Courtyard House featured in “Featured Houses,” Architectural Record, July \| LINK \| PDF
2014	Courtyard House featured in “Glashaus Am Pudding,” AD Germany, July/ August, pp. 82-85, 170
2014	Lectured at “Design for Humankind” at Dwell on Design; Los Angeles, CA, June 22nd
2014	Courtyard House featured in “Design for Humankind at Dwell on Design,” Dwell, June 11th \| LINK \| PDF
2014	Courtyard House featured in “NOA gives the traditional courtyard house a bold twist in Aurora, Oregon,” Wallpaper*, May14th \| LINK \| PDF
2014	Courtyard House featured in “Complete Transparency,” Dwell, pp. 96-103, April
2014	Courtyard House featured in “5 Green Homes from Dwell’s April Outdoors Issue,” Dwell, March 26th \| LINK \| PDF
2011	Shenzhen Design Forum & Exhibition 2011, “Architecture after relentless urbanization: sustainability or spatial organization in the contemporary metropolis and contemporary wilderness”; Shenzhen University, Shenzhen, China, lecture and exhibition
2011	Featured as one of the ten up-and-coming architects in New York City in “Ten Questions, Ten Architects,” PIN-UP No. 10; New York, pp.78
2010	865 UN Plaza featured on the cover of Casa da Abitare; Milano, cover, “Self Portrait”, pp.150-159, 212, 214 \| PDF
2010	Snow Mound featured in “Lumi on niin inspiroivaa!”; Länsi-Suomi, Rauma, Finland, cover, pp. 6-7,
2008	Ten Canonical Buildings 1950-2000 published by Rizzoli
2007	Lectured at What Matters International Design Symposium, “Grounded,” Otis College of Art and Design; Los Angeles, CA
2006	Exhibited at Architecture Biennale Beijing; Beijing, China
2006	Lily Superpad/low/wet/humid featured in “Grounded, an Abbreviated History,” Pidgin 2; Princeton University, p.32-47 \| PDF
2004	Exhibited at Museum of Modern Art, “Tall Buildings” Exhibition, World Trade Center structure drawing, with Guy Nordenson; New York, NY
2003	High Line prize-winning entry published in “This is Not a Park: Fabricating a Contemporary Wilderness for the Contemporary Metropolis,” Designing the High Line, New York, p. 9 \| PDF
2002	Published in “This is Not a Park – Adding 250 Acres of Nature,” Resource Architecture: Defining an Architecture for the 21st Century, Birkhäuser, Berlin, p. 17-19 \| PDF