Episode #28

Dean Amale Andraos speaks with Mimi Hoang and Eric Bunge, founding partners of nARCHITECTS. Hoang and Bunge are Adjunct Assistant Professors at Columbia GSAPP, where they regularly teach Core Architecture Studios. In this episode, they discuss the need to rethink a building’s interaction with the city and its occupants, teaching students to consider typological, social, and economic units in new ways, and finding an alternative way of presenting their office in print – as a project in itself, rather than a through a series of projects – with their forthcoming book “Buildings and Almost Buildings”. 

“Carmel Place is trying to reflect and respond to how we have changed — how the family structure has changed, how the demographics of cities have changed. All of that is pushing against our known assumptions of how we live. It was an extremely inspiring act to inset architecture into these much larger discussions about housing policy, zoning codes, etc., and to really insert architecture as a necessary act to respond to change.”
—Mimi Hoang on nARCHITECT’s modular housing project for Kips Bay, New York.

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