NO OFFICE is an architecture, design, and research practice that focuses on architecture, urbanism, and everything in between.
Projects
Grounding the Middle Ground
A Small, but Tall House
Waiting for the Storm
Within / Without
Bhola House
Jade Island House
Ragbale Ring
Trail Mix
Research
Evolutive Housing
Collective Domestic
Disruptive Voids
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2023
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.
Speaking: Nimet and Omar are presenting two papers in St. Louis at the ACSA 111th Annual Meeting: In Commons.
2022
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.
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.
2023
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.
Speaking: Nimet and Omar are presenting two papers in St. Louis at the ACSA 111th Annual Meeting: In Commons.
2022
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.
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.