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NO ARCHITECTURE
NO ARCHITECTURE



“EVERY NO ARCHITECTURE SPACE FEELS HUMAN CENTERED.” 


 — Architect Magazine



NO ARCHITECTURE is a minority-owned, single-office international architecture and design practice based in New York.

Founded by Andrew Heid in 2014, NO ARCHITECTURE is known for realizing spaces that offer greater spiritual, ecological, and cultural harmony.





"NO ARCHITECTURE IS PASSIONATE ABOUT ARCHITECTURE'S ABILITY TO INFLUENCE SOCIAL INTERACTION"


— Dwell

PROCESS


Our holistic, iterative design process combined with a rigorous interrogation of site, context, and constraints yields each project’s outcome. In the context of each project, we are inspired to translate our expertise in integrating mass timber design & digital prefabrication, for sustainable living, connected to nature into larger scale urban vision of high density housing, culture, mixed use retail, and commercial types. 

APPROACH


Our signature approach prioritizes transparency and activity to create harmony between architecture and nature. Our current work includes private residences, interiors, museums and other buildings around the country and the world. We are thought leaders in community engagement participation, and public processes to encourage and receive input across each stage of design.

"NO ARCHITECTURE REINVENTS TRANSPARENCY NOT ONLY THROUGH MATERIALITY, BUT HOW PEOPLE INTERACT".


— L’Architecture d’Aujourd’hui


Andrew Heid

Founding Principal

A licensed architect, Andrew is founding principal of NO ARCHITECTURE, a practice that creates harmony between nature and architecture. Known for realizing spaces that offer greater spiritual, ecological, and cultural harmony, NO ARCHITECTURE’s work has been recognized by Forbes 200 best residential architects list, Architect Magazine’s Next Progressives, the Boston Society of Architects’ Honor Award, AIA New York’s Honor Housing Design Award, the Union Internationale des Architectes’ Japan Institute of Architects Prize, and Princeton University’s Suzanne Kolarik Underwood Prize.

Andrew’s work has been nominated for the Mies Crown Hall Americas Prize, Harvard University's Wheelwright Prize, and has been featured in Architectural Digest, AD China, AD Germany, AD Italia, AREA, Arch Daily, Architect, Architectural Digest, Architectural Record, Aesthetica, Civil Art, Cultured, Design Milk, Detail, Divisare, Dwell, L'Architecture d'Aujourd'hui, Luxe TV, Mansion Global, NBC, Phaidon, Plain Magazine, Taschen, The Aspen Times, The New York Times, Vogue China, Wallpaper* and The Wall Street Journal. PIN-UP Architecture Magazine published NO ARCHITECTURE as one of New York's most innovative practices.

Based in New York City and working in different regions across the United States and internationally, Andrew leads private and public projects known for adaptable flexible spaces, that create connectivity between indoors and outdoors, private and communal activities, and live and work spaces. Current work includes private residences, interiors, museums and other buildings around the country and the world. Recent projects include Nanchong Nature City, Beijing Tongzhou Grand Canal, Qianhai New City Center in Shenzhen, and houses in Costa Rica, Ibiza, Aspen, the Berkshires, Canada, Connecticut, New York, Oregon, California, Pennsylvania, and Korea.

Andrew is currently contributing editor at Phaidon. Previously, Andrew was Design Critic in Architecture at Harvard University Graduate School of Design, visiting assistant professor at Pratt, visiting assistant professor at GSAPP at Columbia University, lecturer at the New York Institute of Technology’s School of Architecture, and architecture editor at Cultured Magazine. He has also been an invited juror at Harvard, Columbia, The Cooper Union, The Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies, NJIT, NYIT, Pratt, Parsons, Temple, UCLA, and Yale.

Andrew has lectured on his work at the Aspen Art Museum, Yale Beijing Center, Hong Kong University, Tongji and Shenzhen Universities, the Positive Economy Forum, and at the Beijing International Design Week. Andrew has exhibited work at Storefront for Art and Architecture, the Shenzhen Design Forum, MoMA, and the Beijing Architecture Biennale.

Before founding NO ARCHITECTURE, Andrew practiced at Rem Koolhaas/ OMA and REX in New York and Rotterdam, and Adjaye Associates in London. Along with editing Glass Houses (Phaidon 2023), Andrew designed and edited Ten Canonical Buildings: 1950-2000, with Peter Eisenman from Rizzoli. Andrew is an AIA, Swiss REG, MBE, NCARB-certified architect, with licensure in New York, Oregon, and Pennsylvania. Raised in Oregon of Chinese and German heritage, he studied architecture at the Architectural Association, received his BA in architecture with distinction from Yale University, and his M.Arch from Princeton University.

RECOGNITION


1st Prize Nanchong Nature City
1st Prize for Qianjiang Nature Island
1st Prize for Tongzhou Grand Canal
Finalist for Qianhai New City Center
Finalist for Fantawild Headquarters
Invited lectures at Tongji University, Shenzhen University, Beijing International Design Week, Positive Economic Forum
Courtyard House awarded highest Honor Award from Boston Society of Architects and AIA New York
Nominated for the MCHAP.emerge, Mies Crown Hall Americas Prize, Harvard Wheelwright Prize
Exhibited at Hong Kong and Shenzhen Biennale, Beijing Biennale, Beijin Design Week, MoMA, and Storefront for Art + Architecture
Awarded Princeton’s highest honor Suzanne Kolarik Underwood Prize
Awarded the New York Heritage Award for the Highline
Awarded Japan Institute of Architects Prize

PROJECTS

113 West 136th St
1032 Cottage
165 Charles St
201 8th St
319 West 35th
350 Bowery Hotel
56N Canal St
630 9th Avenue
75 First Avenue
865 UN Plaza
913 Lafayette Avenue
Aalto University
Allegheny Mountain House Aurora City Hall
Berkshire Artisit Studio
Busan Opera House
Bytedance Headquarters
C40 Chicago Pershing Road
Casa Playa Hermosa
Cheisp Street Idea Store Library Cloud Forest
Cluster Villas
Contemporary Art Museum
Courgar Ridge House
Courtyard House
Courtyard Housing
Culture Bridge
Dee and Charles Wyly Theater
Devil Lake House
Dubai Towers Tunis
Fantawild HQ
Flower House
Forest City
Foward Loft
Guggenheim Helsinki
Guoshen Museum
Hester Hotel
Hi-lo Line Wilderness
Klekovaca Mountan Resort
Lily Superpad
Lima Art Museum
Lishui Shangshui City Master  Plan
Long House
Mediatheque Lausanne
Museum Plaza
Nanchong University
Natural History Museum
Nature Bridge
Natural History Museum
New Museum of Architecture and Design in Helsinki
Omniyat Towers
Oregon Wine Hotel
Qianjian Nature Island
Qianhai New City Center
Risingmountain
River House
Science City
Science Island
Shenzhen Biennale
Shenzhen Mangrove Wetland Museum
Shenzhen Opera House
Shenzhen Working People’s Cultural Palace
Sola Radhus
Sonnen Terrasse
Snow Mound
Taichung City Cultural Centre
Terrace House
The High Line
This Is Not A Park
Tongzhou Grand Canal
Trail House
Unitheque New Library
University of Manitoba
Urban Tree House
Vakko Media Headquarters
Vertical Medina
Watermill Center

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