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First Office Team: Andrew Atwood, Anna Neimark, Jono Coles, Bailey Bestul
Structural Engineer: Nous Engineering
Contractor and Landscape Architect: Double Iris
Photographer: Eric Staudenmaier

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Our practice approaches architecture as both a craft and a cultural dialogue. We work across scales—from private residences to public spaces—bringing together research, material exploration, and collaborative design to create environments that are functional, expressive, and deeply connected to their context. Guided by curiosity and rigor, our projects reflect an ongoing commitment to shaping spaces that resonate with the lives of the people who inhabit them.

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Our practice approaches architecture as both a craft and a cultural dialogue. We work across scales—from private residences to public spaces—bringing together research, material exploration, and collaborative design to create environments that are functional, expressive, and deeply connected to their context. Guided by curiosity and rigor, our projects reflect an ongoing commitment to shaping spaces that resonate with the lives of the people who inhabit them.

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Our practice approaches architecture as both a craft and a cultural dialogue. We work across scales—from private residences to public spaces—bringing together research, material exploration, and collaborative design to create environments that are functional, expressive, and deeply connected to their context. Guided by curiosity and rigor, our projects reflect an ongoing commitment to shaping spaces that resonate with the lives of the people who inhabit them.

First Office
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Our practice approaches architecture as both a craft and a cultural dialogue. We work across scales—from private residences to public spaces—bringing together research, material exploration, and collaborative design to create environments that are functional, expressive, and deeply connected to their context. Guided by curiosity and rigor, our projects reflect an ongoing commitment to shaping spaces that resonate with the lives of the people who inhabit them.

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Our practice approaches architecture as both a craft and a cultural dialogue. We work across scales—from private residences to public spaces—bringing together research, material exploration, and collaborative design to create environments that are functional, expressive, and deeply connected to their context. Guided by curiosity and rigor, our projects reflect an ongoing commitment to shaping spaces that resonate with the lives of the people who inhabit them.

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Beige House

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First Office Team: Andrew Atwood, Anna Neimark, Jono Coles, Bailey Bestul
Structural Engineer: Nous Engineering
Contractor and Landscape Architect: Double Iris
Photographer: Eric Staudenmaier

First Office

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First Office

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Our practice approaches architecture as both a craft and a cultural dialogue. We work across scales—from private residences to public spaces—bringing together research, material exploration, and collaborative design to create environments that are functional, expressive, and deeply connected to their context. Guided by curiosity and rigor, our projects reflect an ongoing commitment to shaping spaces that resonate with the lives of the people who inhabit them.

First Office
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Our practice approaches architecture as both a craft and a cultural dialogue. We work across scales—from private residences to public spaces—bringing together research, material exploration, and collaborative design to create environments that are functional, expressive, and deeply connected to their context. Guided by curiosity and rigor, our projects reflect an ongoing commitment to shaping spaces that resonate with the lives of the people who inhabit them.

First Office
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Our practice approaches architecture as both a craft and a cultural dialogue. We work across scales—from private residences to public spaces—bringing together research, material exploration, and collaborative design to create environments that are functional, expressive, and deeply connected to their context. Guided by curiosity and rigor, our projects reflect an ongoing commitment to shaping spaces that resonate with the lives of the people who inhabit them.

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Our practice approaches architecture as both a craft and a cultural dialogue. We work across scales—from private residences to public spaces—bringing together research, material exploration, and collaborative design to create environments that are functional, expressive, and deeply connected to their context. Guided by curiosity and rigor, our projects reflect an ongoing commitment to shaping spaces that resonate with the lives of the people who inhabit them.

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Our practice approaches architecture as both a craft and a cultural dialogue. We work across scales—from private residences to public spaces—bringing together research, material exploration, and collaborative design to create environments that are functional, expressive, and deeply connected to their context. Guided by curiosity and rigor, our projects reflect an ongoing commitment to shaping spaces that resonate with the lives of the people who inhabit them.

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Site: Mr. Wren & Friends.  Logo and La Grotesque typeface by Francesca Bolognini

First Office was founded in 2011 by Anna Neimark and Andrew Atwood to create a dialog between architectural practice and academic discourse. Their collaborative work spans buildings, exhibitions, and publications, all rooted in the belief that architecture is a form of cultural production.

The practice has engaged with leading institutions, including the MAK Center for Art and Architecture, the Chicago and Venice Biennials, MoMA PS1’s Young Architects Program, and the Architectural League of New York. The projects and essays of First Office have been recognized with awards and compiled in Nine Essays (Treatise Press, 2015), as well as in Andrew’s publication Not Interesting: On the Limits of Criticism in Architecture (Applied Research and Design, 2017).

Anna Neimark
Design Faculty and Visual Studies Coordinator, SCI-Arc
anna.neimark@gmail.com

Andrew Atwood
Licensed Architect and Associate Professor, UC Berkeley
w.andrew.atwood@gmail.com

About

First Office was founded in 2011 by Anna Neimark and Andrew Atwood to create a dialog between architectural practice and academic discourse. Their collaborative work spans buildings, exhibitions, and publications, all rooted in the belief that architecture is a form of cultural production.

The practice has engaged with leading institutions, including the MAK Center for Art and Architecture, the Chicago and Venice Biennials, MoMA PS1’s Young Architects Program, and the Architectural League of New York. The projects and essays of First Office have been recognized with awards and compiled in Nine Essays (Treatise Press, 2015), as well as in Andrew’s publication Not Interesting: On the Limits of Criticism in Architecture (Applied Research and Design, 2017).

Anna Neimark
Design Faculty and Visual Studies Coordinator, SCI-Arc
anna.neimark@gmail.com

Andrew Atwood
Licensed Architect and Associate Professor, UC Berkeley
w.andrew.atwood@gmail.com

Site: Mr. Wren & Friends.  Logo and La Grotesque typeface by Francesca Bolognini