Eric Bunge | nARCHITECTS

Armatures

How can architecture perform as an armature? An armature is inherently incomplete and open-ended, awaiting the enactment of its potential. Armatures invite appropriation and reconfiguration, shifting some agency onto users and “mis-users.” Armatures are also ambiguous: a midpoint between buildings and something else. Eric Bunge will present this framework through a variety of buildings and public spaces designed by his firm nARCHITECTS, co-founded with Mimi Hoang in New York City in 1999. These will include The Jones Beach Energy & Nature Center, the NYS Equal Rights Heritage Center, the A/D/O Design Center and the modular Carmel Place (New York City’s first micro-unit building).

About Eric Bunge, FAIA

Eric Bunge, FAIA is a co-Founding Partner of Brooklyn-based nARCHITECTS. Born in Montreal of Argentinian heritage, Eric trained in London, Calcutta, Paris, Boston and New York before co-founding nARCHITECTS with Mimi Hoang in 1999. Eric is an Adjunct Associate Professor at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Architecture, Preservation and Planning, and has taught at Parsons School of Design, R.I.S.D. and Columbia/Barnard Colleges, and as a visiting professor at Harvard University, Yale University, UC Berkeley, Université de Montreal, University of Toronto, and this year at UT Austin. He holds a Master of Architecture from the Harvard University Graduate School of Design and a Bachelor of Architecture from McGill University.  Along with Mimi Hoang, Eric is the co-author of "Buildings and Almost Buildings." 

nARCHITECTS received the 2023 National Design Award in Architecture by the Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum. Additional honors include an American Academy of Arts and Letters in Architecture Award, AIA New York State Firm of the Year Award, AIA National Institute Honor Award, AIA NYS Excelsior Honor Award, AIANY Design Honor / Merit awards, AIANY Andrew J. Thomas Award for Pioneers in Housing, The Architectural League of New York’s Emerging Voices, Consortium for Sustainable Urbanization’s President’s Award, and two Fast Company Innovation by Design Awards for Spaces.