N H D M Architects
N H D M Architects | Interim Urbanism: Youth, Dwelling, City, Seoul Biennale of Architecture and Urbanism, Seoul, Korea, 2019. Image courtesy N H D M Architects
The Architectural League’s annual Emerging Voices program spotlights North American architects, landscape architects, and urban designers who have significant bodies of realized work and the potential to influence their field.
Nahyun Hwang and David Eugin Moon of N H D M Architects won a 2023 award.
Nahyun Hwang and David Eugin Moon founded N H D M Architects in New York City in 2010. Operating at the intersection of architecture and urbanism, the collaborative design and research practice “aims to explore some of the most critical inquiries of our times through the rigorous investigation of, and provocative propositions in, the built environment,” in its own words. Through built work and speculative research, N H D M explores a wide range of topics, including immigrant and migrant spaces; emerging dwelling typologies; environmental justice; and reuse and reprogramming.
Projects include:
- Open Ground / Flux NJP Playroom, the redesign of two major spaces in Korea’s Nam June Paik Art Center
- Interim Urbanism: Youth, Dwelling, City, an installation that explores the past and present conditions of youth dwelling in New York City
- Librería Barco de Papel, a nonprofit bookstore and cultural center in Queens.
The work of N H D M has been shown at the Venice Biennale of Architecture, the Seoul Biennale of Architecture and Urbanism, and the International Architecture Biennale Rotterdam. The practice received a 2022 AIANY Design Award, a 2020 Architectural Record Design Vanguard award, and a 2018 AIANY New Practices New York award.
Nahyun Hwang holds a bachelor’s in architecture from Yonsei University and an MArch from Harvard University GSD. She is an adjunct associate professor at Columbia University GSAPP.
David Eugin Moon holds a bachelor’s in architecture from University of Michigan’s Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning and an MArch from Harvard University GSD. He is an adjunct associate professor at Columbia University GSAPP.
More information
- A Moving Archive, Metropolis
- NHDM Architecture + Urbanism, Domus
- Design Vanguard 2020: N H D M Architects, Architectural Record