nARCHITECTS, PLLC (USA/CANADA) was founded in New York City by partners Eric Bunge (b. Montreal, Canada) and Mimi Hoang (b. Saigon, Vietnam) in 1999. 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 through cultural as well as technical frameworks. Rather than a check list of features, integrated sustainable thinking occurs at every step. In short, we achieve simple designs that produce a richness and flexibility of experience, with an economy of conceptual and material means.

Eric Bunge, AIA, Partner
Bunge received a Master of Architecture from the Harvard University Graduate School of Design and a Bachelor of Architecture from McGill University. He teaches at Columbia University, and has taught at Harvard, Yale, Parsons School of Design, R.I.S.D., Barnard College, 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.

Mimi Hoang, NCARB, Partner
Hoang received a Master of Architecture from the Harvard University Graduate School of Design and a Bachelor of Science in Architecture from M.I.T. She is an Adjunct Professor at Yale University, and has taught at Harvard, Columbia, and UC Berkeley. Prior to co-founding nARCHITECTS, she trained in New York, Boston and Amsterdam.

Team
Stephen Hagmann, RA, Project Architect
Ammr Vandal, Project Architect
Dominique Gonfard, Project Architect

Seung Teak Lee, Architectural Designer
Julia Chapman, Architectural Designer
Christopher Grabow, Architectural Designer

Jack Hudspith, Architectural Intern

Recognition
nARCHITECTS’ work has been recognized internationally as an emerging practice with awards, exhibitions and publications in over 15 languages. Recent awards and recognition include 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). In 2009, nARCHITECTS was selected by the Museum of Modern Art as one of five firms to design a future vision for New York City’s harbor with respect to rising sea levels, exhibited at MoMA March-October 2010 (MoMA Rising Currents). nARCHITECTS was selected for the Design Excellence programs of both the New York City Department of Parks and Recreation (as one of eight firms) and the New York City Department of Design and Construction (as one of twenty-four firms).

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