Environment
Our name and identity recognizes that the decisions we make today directly impacts the people and environment of the future. We believe designers, owners, builders, and decision-makers alike share responsibility in prioritizing wellness and well-being by embracing systems that reduce carbon and energy usage, sourcing materials responsibly, and ensuring that present projects result in a healthier, more sustainable future.
Connective
We believe our work should be more than just a transactional relationship between people and the environment. We strive to foster inclusive and meaningful dialogue between owners, designers, developers, and craftspeople to create spaces that are genuinely personal, sustainable, and socially engaging.
Equality
We believe having diverse voices throughout our work results in an inclusive built environment rooted in shared values and community well-being. We recognize the role architecture has to play in dismantling barriers in our built environment to basic human rights.
Place
Connection to place is integral to who we are as architects and we believe every place is unique. Our work is responsive to the people whom the spaces will serve and rooted in the local climate and conditions of the site. These elements combine to produce unique site-specific designs that seek to enrich our inner lives and connect us to the outside world in new and profound ways.
Listening
Our approach to design embraces both the commonalities and unique ambitions of our clients. We form close relationships with our clients throughout the design and construction process to create spaces that support the intricacies of daily life.
Optimism
Our practice seeks to make positive changes in our communities. From domestic spaces to furniture pieces to public art, we believe in a built environment that inspires, brings joy, and exists with purpose.
July 2023
Performance Art Loft featured in AN Interior Spring/Summer 2023 print magazine
September 2022
Clinton Hill Apartment featured in Clever (Architectural Digest)
September 2019
Future Projects curates exhibition and conference at Fundacion Cerezales in Spain
December 2023
Future Projects selected as Editor's Pick for the Young Architects Award
December 2023
Performance Art Loft awarded Editor's Pick in Interior Residential category
December 2023
Studio Loutsis project awarded Editor's Pick in Interior Workplace category
November 2023
Performance Art Loft is shortlisted for the Dezeen Awards 2023 in the Home Interior category
September 2023
Performance Art Loft is longlisted for the Dezeen Awards 2023 in the Home Interior category
September 2023
Khoi Nguyen teaches architectural advanced design studio at Columbia GSAPP with Leslie Gill
May 2023
Studio Loutsis is a finalist at the 2023 NYCxDESIGN Awards in the Creative Office category
May 2023
Omsom HQ is a finalist at the 2023 NYCxDESIGN Awards in the Environmental Graphics category
May 2023
Performance Art Loft is a finalist at the 2023 NYCxDESIGN Awards in the Apartment Transformation category
September 2022
Khoi Nguyen teaches architectural design studio at Columbia GSAPP with Leslie Gill
September 2021
Khoi Nguyen teaches architectural design studio at the New Jersey Institute of Technology
February 2020
Khoi Nguyen gives lecture at Columbia GSAPP on their work at the Oslo Architecture Triennale
January 2020
Khoi Nguyen teaches architectural design studio at Columbia GSAPP with Pedro Rivera
January 2020
Khoi Nguyen discusses recent work with the Advanced Architectural Design program at Columbia GSAPP
September 2019
Future Projects leads Extra-Local workshop at Fundación Cerezales Antonino y Cinia in Spain
September 2019
Future Projects exhibits work at the Oslo Architecture Triennale
January 2019
Khoi Nguyen teaches architectural design studio at Columbia GSAPP with Pedro Rivera
Abundance Workshop
The global and local market, as it overlaps with the construction of the built environment, is predicated on value systems based fundamentally on supply and demand. Abundance Workshop is a research collective, initiated by Jesse McCormick and Khoi Nguyen, which uses this as a point of entry into rethinking the way in which architecture relates to systems of value and society.
Unspeculative Architecture
This recurring series of architectural design studios seeks to expand a body of knowledge investigating how architecture and the built environment at large intersects with the forces of the market. The studio reconsiders the terms with which architecture is produced and the architect's role in building communities to imagine a more just and equitable future.
Extra-Local
Extra-Local is an initiative that engages communities through student workshops that use experimental construction techniques combined with local building knowledge to investigate the built environment and the community design. Local, defined as a focus on a particular area, and Extra, meaning 'outside of' or 'beyond', present a paradox when understood together and form the framework for examining how architects engage with the public.