Archi-Tectonics' innovative multidisciplinary work combines advanced digital design processes, rigorous research, and new fabrication methods across scales to create smart buildings and healthier forms of urban living. We create concept-driven environments, buildings, and urban systems that foster more equitable, and sustainable ways of life.
We value performance over form and design intelligence over style. Our approach is based on extensive testing and prototyping, resulting in purpose driven designs that have a unique character and identity. Through innovative design, prefabrication, and optimized implementation, we deliver efficient, sustainable, and imaginative solutions for 21st-century challenges.
We create great value for our clients; typically our clients sell our designs after multiple years of use for double or triple the value.
Founded in1994 by Winka Dubbeldam, Archi-Tectonics is a WBE-certified design studio with offices in New York City, Amsterdam, and Hangzhou. Dubbeldam and Justin Korhammer, partner since 2016, lead a multi-national team of architects, designers, urbanists, and engineers that work across scales and types.
Adaptive Hybrids and Organic Systems. We think of buildings as active systems rather than inert objects. Like organisms, our buildings dynamically adapt to their environments, and are designed to be energy efficient, and react to changing functional demands, thus expanding the traditional boundaries of program and typology. By treating buildings, landscape, and environments as a continuum, and by understanding architecture as a way of shaping processes and flows, we create buildings that have agency in their environments and ecospheres and promote the well-being of both the inhabitants and their habitat.Designs through Research, Prototyping, and Testing. We value performance over form and design intelligence over style and use 3D digital generative design processes that create new building forms that deliver optimized for performance and identity. Archi-Tectonics continuously refine these forms through extensive testing and prototyping to deliver purpose-driven, efficient, sustainable, and imaginative solutions for 21st-century challenges. Innovation through Collaboration / Non-Standard. Arch-Tectonics fosters creative synergies to generate highly efficient, adaptable buildings and environments by fully integrating a team of creative collaborators, engineers, and fabricators into the design process. Working closely with manufacturers through continuous prototyping and pre-fabrication, enables us to disrupt the standards and limitations of conventional building production, and to generate highly customized but economic structures and materialities.
MONSTERS & MUTANTS, by Winka Dubbeldam, Park Books 2025
STRANGE OBJECTS, NEW SOLIDS AND MASSIVE THINGS, by Winka Dubbeldam, Actar 2022
ARCHI-TECTONICS: Winka Dubbeldam, DAAB 2011
AT-INdex: Winka Dubbeldam, Princeton Architectural Press 2007
ARCHI-TECTONICS NYC
111 John Street #700
New York, NY 10038
studio@archi-tectonics.com
ph (1) 212-226-0303
ARCHI-TECTONICS HANGZHOU
Architectural Design & Research Institute
866 Yuhangtang Rd, Xihu
Hangzhou, Zhejiang 310027, China
ARCHI-TECTONICS LA
530 Molino Street #108
Los Angeles, CA 90013
studio@archi-tectonics.com
MONSTERS & MUTANTS, by Winka Dubbeldam, Park Books 2025
STRANGE OBJECTS, NEW SOLIDS AND MASSIVE THINGS, by Winka Dubbeldam, Actar 2022
ARCHI-TECTONICS: Winka Dubbeldam, DAAB 2011
AT-INdex: Winka Dubbeldam, Princeton Architectural Press 2007
“Working with Archi-Tectonics and Winka Dubbeldam has been a wonderful experience! The firm is the right combination of boutique service with big firm professionalism. The innovation of designs and ideas are jaw dropping while the attentive service remains thorough and personal. ”
Tia Cibani, Fashion Designer, Ports 1961
'Winka Dubbeldam is the most talented architect in the world today (bar NONE) - and I believe I have a good eye for that. I would NEVER consider building anywhere without giving Archi-Tectonics the right of first refusal. They absolutely make it easy! AND the work is stunningly
BEAUTIFUL!"
M. De Paola, Client
In addition to providing an outstanding design for the building, with innovative use of materials and a wonderful layout, I find that, from the perspective of a developer, the team at Archi-Tectonics has exceptional skills with the details of construction, systems, and coordination. The completeness and detail of the documentation that they produced resulted in a seamless contractor bidding process and a smooth construction process."
Charles Dunne, Developer