Honored to be named in Forbes’ “Architects Best in State” alongside practices we admire.
This recognition reflects what we care about most: designing with intention, connecting to nature, and creating spaces for meaningful living.
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Partially excavated into a hillside, the project’s topography offers thermal insulation while modulating the interior spaces along spectrums of open to closed, public to private, above and below grade. Uphill to the west, clerestory windows illuminate the bedrooms and baths; while downhill to the east, the more public programs open to the surrounding landscape through floor-to-ceiling windows. #flowerhouse #glasshouse #timberhouse #concretehouse 📷 @iwanbaan
A plan organized around an open center, where each room constructs its own horizon.
Not simply a superimposition of independent elements, the project is composed as a single architectural whole: precise, continuous, and deeply resolved. The overhang becomes a defining device, giving form and cohesion to what reads as a series of houses conjoined as one, each room framing earth and sky through a rotated canopy.
A Canadian winter wrapped in quiet blues — so we nested into Devil Lake House.
Steel, glass, and forest in slow conversation.
#NOARCHITECTURE #DevilLakeHouse #GlassArchitecture #ForestHouse #ModernPavilion
Thank you to the Philip Johnson Glass House and the New Canaan Library for hosting NO ARCHITECTURE’s founding principal, Andrew Heid, as part of the Glass House Presents lecture series. Andrew shared insights from Glass Houses, a new Phaidon publication featuring 50 iconic glass homes from Philip Johnson and Mies van der Rohe to Sejima and Nishizawa, as well as NO ARCHITECTURE’s own Courtyard House. The lecture also explored how NO ARCHITECTURE’s ongoing work reimagines how we live in harmony with naturespiritually, socially, and ecologically.
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April 17, 2025
Located on a narrow ridge sloping toward a protected lake in Ontario, the Devil Lake House is conceived as a series of seasonal cabins that disperse and connect to take advantage of the panoramic views of the lake to the south and the forest to the west. The final structure creates a modern expansion to an existing multi-family compound overlooking Devil Lake.
Continuing to work with the idea of the flexible plan, the installation of two tree houses responds to the grand proportions found in the newly combined double-height space, which opens to the city through
22-ft tall glass walls on three sides and brings the landscape into the apartment. To reduce this vertical
volume without sacrificing the desirable qualities of its light-filled open plan, we inserted two tree houses
connected by a self-supporting spiral stair. The tree houses introduce transparency while creating
intimate interior living spaces where one can experience nature beyond. @noarchitecture@noarchitecture_land@studiogumjung@mikeyholtz@gmsllp@blueberrybuilders@adchina_official@wsj
The Flower House reinterprets and expands on the glass house typology through its dynamic relationship to the native landscape and a plan configuration that organizes the 6 interlocking pavilions into “petals” around a central open courtyard. Partially excavated into a hillside, the project’s topography offers thermal insulation while modulating the interior spaces along spectrums of open to closed, public to private, above and below grade. #glasshouse #timberhouse #concretehouse
By rethinking the rural vernacular America barn into a new urban, clustered courtyard type, the proposed Aurora City Hall sponsors a new spiritual, social, and ecological harmony between nature and community. #wip #nature #harmony #timber #masstimber #transparency
Located in the heart of Oregon wine country and conceived as a new typology for a winery and boutique hotel, individual pavilions are alternated with exterior garden courtyards into a chessboard plan. #wip #oregon #oregonwinecountry #glasshouse #timber #masstimber #hotel #courtyard
Located in a small town in the Oregon wine country, the Courtyard House harmonizes with its context by burrowing the house into the land so that it remains unseen from the street. To the west and north, this strategy minimizes the visual and acoustic connections between adjacent structures and increases thermal insulation. As a result, an exterior glass courtyard is carved into the center of the floor plan, to bring nature, light, and air into the heart of the house. Spanning a terrace escarpment, however, the structure emerges from below ground. To the east, the concrete floor slab cantilevers over the hillside, and through floor-to-ceiling windows, frames expansive views of the wild river, field, pond, and wetlands below. #oregonwinecountry #oregonwine #glasshouse #concretehouse #timberhouse #modernhouse #contemporaryhome
