Is architecture inherently complete? Or is it a state of incompletion and seeming inadequacy that incites us to imagine architecture as an armature for an ever-changing daily life? Across a range of buildings, public spaces, and ephemeral installations, Brooklyn’s N Architects, led by cofounding principals Eric Bunge and Mimi Hoang, argues for the formal and social potential of an architecture that remains somehow incomplete and ambiguously perceived — or in the architects’ words, “almost buildings.” The firm’s works include Equal Rights Heritage Center, a 696-square-metre complex dedicated to upstate New York’s pioneering role in the civil rights, suffragette and LGBTQ rights movements, and the A/D/O by Mini building in Brooklyn.
