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2024

Grant: NO OFFICE is awarded a grant for the 2024 Infrastructure Project Policy, Delivery, and Design: I-81 Viaduct Grant Program. “Freeway Futures” is a collaborative project between NO OFFICE, Thomas Hogge, and Jess Myers.


Award: NO OFFICE is awarded Honorable Mention in the Architects Newspaper, AN’s Best of Practice Awards in the Architect (New Firm)—Northeast category.

2023

Juror: Omar is on the jury panel for the CNY Arts Onondaga County Public Arts Grant program awarding $500,000 in grants to local municipalities for public art projects.

Nomination: Omar is nominated for the prestigious WOJR/Civitella Ranieri Architecture Prize for 2024-25. “Garden Rooms: Material Inhabitation of the Margins.” A six-week-long design-build architecture residency in Umbria, Italy.

Publication:  Ali, S.O. “Collective Domestic: Theorizing the Intermediate Commons” Proceedings to ACSA 111th Annual Meeting, “In Commons,” March 2023.

Publication:  Ali, S.O., Anwar, N. “Finding Common Ground: Reimagining Suburban Housing and Public Space” Proceedings to ACSA 111th Annual Meeting, “In Commons,” March 2023.

Achievement: Nimet and Omar join the faculty at Syracuse University, School of Architecture.

Exhibition: “Evolutive Housing” in “Home, Sweet Home” at the Albert and Tina Small Center for Collaborative Design. Opening Friday, 4-6 pm, May 19, 2023, 1725 Barrone Street.

Publicity: “Home Sweet Home” exhibition opening profiled on Archinect and Bustler.

Speaking: Omar is presenting his paper, “Collective Domestic: Theorizing the Intermediate Commons” in St. Louis at the ACSA 111th Annual Meeting: In Commons.

Speaking: Nimet and Omar are presenting their paper, “Finding Common Ground: Reimagining Suburban Housing and Public Space” in St. Louis at the ACSA 111th Annual Meeting: In Commons.

Exhibition: “Evolutive Housing” at the Tulane Research, Innovation and Creativity Summit (TRICS). Wednesday- Thursday, March 1–2, 2023, Jung Hotel Grand Hall 1500 Canal Street.

2022

Juror: Omar is invited to the University of Virginia, School of Architecture for Final Reviews.

Publicity: Nimet and Omar are profiled in “New Zine: An Annual Publication of the Tulane School of Architecture”.

Speaking: Nimet joins Jenny Sabin as the respondent to her lecture, “Biosynthetic Design: Towards Adaptive Architecture” at the Tulane School of Architecture, 14 Nov 2021 5:15pm–6:30pm.

Publicity: Omar is profiled in Tulane Today as a part of the Dean’s Equity and Inclusion Initiative.

Achievement: Nimet is promoted to Visiting Assistant Professor at Tulane University, School of Architecture.

Grant: NO OFFICE receives research funding from the Phyllis Taylor Center and the Michael Sacks Chair, to study affordable and accessible middle scale housing and cooperative land ownership in Houston.

Juror: Omar is a juror for the 2021 + 2022 Architecture Student Show at the Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning.

Achievement: Nimet completes the licensure process and is a Registered Architect in the state of Illinois.

2021

Publication: Keenan, J.M., Jover, M., & Ali, S.O. (2021). Climate Futures and the Digital Civic Universe. Topos: The International Review of Landscape Architecture and Urban Design. 117(1), 30–35. Infrastructures – Topos curated by West 8.

Speaking: Omar joins Germane Barnes as the respondent to his lecture, “Call Me If You Get Lost” at the Tulane School of Architecture, 1 Nov 2021 5:15pm–6:30pm.

Exhibition: “Within / Without” at Space p11, 55 E Randolph Street, Pedway Level, Chicago, 14 Sep–30 Nov 2021.

Residency:  Omar and Nimet are awarded the I(R)L: Interior Landscape Residency at Space p11, awarded exhibition with stipend.

Publicity: Omar is profiled on Archinect and E-Flux following his fellowship appointment.

Award: Omar is awarded the inaugural Architecture and Urbanism Fellowship at Tulane University, School of Architecture. As part of his two-year fellowship, he also joins the first cohort for the newly launched national Deans’ Equity and Inclusion Initiative.

2020

Publicity: Nimet and Omar are part of a team profiled in Metropolis Magazine. “Novel Architecture in the Age of the Novel Coronavirus,” by Peter Dumbadze November 24, 2020.

Award: Nimet and Omar are part of a team that received an Honorable Mention in the 2020 Burnham Prize Competition: Burnham 20/20, hosted by the Chicago Architectural Club.

Exhibition: Nimet and Omar are part of a team that contributed to a group exhibition, "In Open Air", in “Working Remotely,” Risograph Print, a83 Gallery, 83 Grand Street, New York, NY, July 31-November 1, 2020.



About Us

NO OFFICE is a design and research practice focusing on architecture, urbanism, and everything in between. Much of our work seeks to reevaluate existing policies and conditions and to reframe them in a way that is more equitable and dynamic. Our ethos is to constantly challenge and rethink established systems rather than accept them as they are.
What We Do

NO OFFICE is a full-service architecture firm, licensed to practice architecture in the states of Illinois and Texas. We design buildings from feasibility and zoning through design and construction. We work on architecture, interiors, urbanism, and objects. We are open to discuss your ideas and bring them to life through drawings, visualizations, and models.