Archi-Tectonics

WHO WE ARE

Archi-Tectonics’ innovative multidisciplinary work combines advanced digital design processes, rigorous research, and new fabrication methods across scales to create smart buildings and healthier forms of urban living. We create concept-driven environments, buildings, and urban systems that foster more equitable, and sustainable ways of life.

We value performance over form and design intelligence over style. Our approach is based on extensive testing and prototyping, resulting in purpose driven designs that have a unique character and identity. Through innovative design, prefabrication, and optimized implementation, we deliver efficient, sustainable, and imaginative solutions for 21st-century challenges.

We create great value for our clients; typically our clients sell our designs after multiple years of use for double or triple the value.

Founded in 1994 by Winka Dubbeldam, Archi-Tectonics is a WBE-certified design studio with offices in New York City, Amsterdam, and Hangzhou. Dubbeldam and Justin Korhammer, partner since 2016, lead a multi-national team of architects, designers, urbanists, and engineers that work across scales and types.

Archi-Tectonics Portfolio

LEADERSHIP + COMPETENCY

WINKA DUBBELDAM is the founding partner of the WBE firm Archi-Tectonics NYC, LLC [1994], and is widely known for her award-winning work. She was the Chair and Miller Professor of Architecture at UPenn for 20 years, and has taught at Columbia, Cornell and Harvard University. She has been the external examiner for the AA [6 years], and at the Bartlett UCL, both in London. She has chaired many design juries, such as the AIANY, Prix de Rome, Plan Magazine, and Boffo, and was named one of Design Intelligence's 30 Most Admired Educators in 2015. Winka was the creative director for the Visual Italian Pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale [2021-2023] and has lectured worldwide at many symposia and universities.

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JUSTIN KORHAMMER is partner at Arch-Tectonics since 2016. Before joining, he was the founder and principal of Anima LLC since 1999. He also collaborated with several internationally renowned architectural firms, including Daniel Libeskind, Peter Einsenman, and Steven Holl. During his 7 years at Steven Holl Architects, Justin was the project architect and main designer for numerous award-winning projects. In addition in obtaining his degree in architecture, Justin studied Industrial Design. He has taught design studies at the Berlage Institute, Columbia University, Pratt Institute and the University of Pennsylvania. Justin works as an independent critic and freelance writer for international architecture magazines.

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NINA KULMALA with 20+ years of administrative management in NYC, Nina has been working with Archi-Tectonics and their team for over 7 years, providing back-office support services with a focus on office management and bookkeeping. Her attention to detail and appreciation for design is also reflected in her event-planning for charity, theater & the arts, and networking across the different layers of her personal and professional communities.

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BOWEN QIN is a LEED certified senior designer at Archi-Tectonics with extensive experience in parametric design and BIM modeling. He graduated in Advanced Architectural Design from the University of Pennsylvania in 2018, with a focus in advanced digital fabrication technology and data-based computational design, studying under Cecil Balmond. He has completed several research-based exhibitions in Greece, Venice, and Philadelphia, and has been working part-time in UPenn’s Autonomous Manufacturing Lab since December of 2019. Bowen has been with Archi-Tectonics for 4 years, and successfully completed numerous commercial, institutional and residential buildings. He has been instrumental in leading the project coordination and communication of our Chinese projects, including the Asian Games 2022 Master Plan and Stadiums.

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DIEGO CAMINO has lead our marketing and business administration for the last 2 years. He is an accomplished and energetic professional offering 5+ years experience and has sales and marketing expertise. He drives achievement through sheer persistence and hard work with a positive approach to every challenge. Diego's international flair, cultural experience and passion for art, architecture and design makes him the perfect fit for Archi-Tectonics Team

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JEAN-FRANCOIS GOYETTE is responsible for media strategies, public relations and business development at Archi-Tectonics. He is the founder of Future-Future – a global strategic communications, public relations, and commercial development agency based in New York and Hong Kong. He holds extensive international experience from a multidisciplinary career across architecture, urban design, communications, and cultural institutions. In London, he held posts within the digital departments of the Institute of Contemporary Arts as well as the Barbican Centre and led the ground-breaking Phaidon Atlas of Architecture Online digital project. In Hong Kong he served as Public Relations Manager at OMA, overseeing external relations and communications throughout the Asia-Pacific region. Before founding Future–Future, he was Director of Communications at Bruce Mau Design.

Contact

ARCHI-TECTONICS NYC, LLC
111 John Street #700
New York NY 10038
email studio@archi-tectonics.com
ph (1) 212-226-0303

HANGZHOU
AT-UAD
Architectural Design & Research Institute
866 Yuhangtang Rd, Xihu
Hangzhou, Zhejiang 310027 / China
ph (86) 571 851 88889

LinkedIn, Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, Vimeo

BOOKS

STRANGE OBJECTS, NEW SOLIDS AND MASSIVE THINGS, by Winka Dubbeldam, Actar 2022

ARCHI-TECTONICS: Winka Dubbeldam, DAAB 2011

AT-INdex: Winka Dubbeldam, Princeton Architectural Press 2007

AWARDS

2023 CTBUH Award Of Excellence Winner – Urban Habitat Category: Asian Games 2023 Masterplan

2023 Architizer A+ Awards Jury Winner – Architecture +Innovation Category: Hybrid Buildings

2023 Architizer A+ Awards Finalist – Commercial and Retail Category: Asian Games 2023 Valley Village Mall

2023 Cies Lighting Award, China - Gongshu Canal Sports Park

2022 Luban Award 2022 – Hangzhou Canal Sports Park and Hangzhou Fitness Centre

2022 AIA Award for the 512GW Townhouse & Climate Skin

2021 First Prize in the 9th “Longtu Cup” National BIM Contest by the China Graphics Society for the Asian Games 2022 Masterplan and Buildings

2021 DEZEEN: Twenty-Two Women Architects and Designers You Should Know

2021 ARCHITIZER: 100 Women To Watch In Architecture

2020 ARCHITIZER A+ AWARD: Asian Games 2022, masterplan & stadiums

2020 RTF Rethinking The Future Award 2020: for 512GW Townhouse in SoHo, NYC: Awardee for “Housing Over 5 Floors (Built)” focused on innovation and sustainability

2019 PLAN Magazine Italy: Award for Masterplan “Sports and Leisure” for Asian Games 2022 Sports Park, and stadiums in Hangzhou, China

2019 THA Hospitality Award for Inscape meditation concept space, NYC

2018 Winner Invited Competition ASIAN GAMES 2022, A 116 Acre Park and 7 Buildings; with !Melk, Thornton Tomasetti, and MIC traffic engineers. Under Construction.

2016 WIRED: 25 Masterpieces that prove 2016 was an Incredible Year for Architecture: For Inscape project in NYC

2015 Beverly Willis Foundation and the AIANY: Award for the Greenwich Building by “Built by Women New York City”, organized by the .

2015 Design Intelligence 30 most Admired Educators 2015: Winka named one of the 30 most exemplary professionals in their field.

2014 Finalist; Gateway Waterfront Design Competition, Echo Bay, New Rochelle NY

2013 TED fellow: Winka gives Ted talk in TED Global Edinburgh

2012 First Prize Winner for International Urban Design Competition Yulin China

2011 Award Winner Maashaven Towers Design Competiton, Hommes Foundation, The Netherlands

2010 BoY Award, Nomination for Interior Design Best of Year 2010 for Inflection Sconce designed for Ivalo Lighting

2010 Retail Interiors Awards 2010, 2nd prize in the Shop Excellence Award for PORTS 1961, London

EXHIBITIONS

Above: our exhibition Strange Objects at the Venice Architecture Biennale 2023.
Below: our exhibition Flatlands and Massive Things at AEDES 2019 in Berlin.

ICONS

The BUILDING icon is a stable and efficient block. It is a container.
OBJECT structures are open ended.
The URBAN icon represents a circulation system.

Look for these within each project's description, throughout the site.