Mimi Hoang, co-founding partner of Brooklyn-based nArchitects, will deliver the 2024 Harris Armstrong Fund Lecture as part of the Sam Fox School’s Public Lecture Series at WashU.

Hoang co-founded nARCHITECTS with Eric Bunge with a belief in architecture as an agent of positive change, responding to and connecting people with the environment in unexpected ways. Responding to our world in flux while fostering social engagement guides her work. Born in the tropics of Vietnam and trained in Amsterdam and New York City, she brings a global outlook and an obsession with greenery to the firm’s design culture. Hoang teaches graduate design studios as an adjunct associate professor at Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation and previously taught at Yale University.

nARCHITECTS’ honors include the 2023 National Design Award in Architecture, an American Academy of Arts and Letters in Architecture Award, the 2017 AIA New York State Firm of the Year Award, an AIA National Institute Honor Award, AIA NY and NYS Design Awards, an AIA NYS Excelsior Honor Award, the Architectural League of New York’s Emerging Voices, the AIA NY Andrew J Thomas Award for Pioneers in Housing, a Fast Company Innovation by Design Award for Spaces, Places, Cities, and the Canadian Professional Rome Prize.