Normal Architecture Office (NAO)

07/19/2021

Urban Farm by NAO.NYC Idea: gather and relay organic food from the countryside at the very gate of metropolis.

11/21/2020

New book edited by Agata Rogos will have a story about Villa 62 by NAO and Ordos 100 masterplan by Ai Weiwei from 2008. Written in the first personal account by Srdjan Jovanovic Weiss.

11/16/2020

Flashback after a Zoom lecture given for Iowa School of Architecture. Conceptual scenario for the birth of Villa 62 Ordos designed by NAO.NYC, part of Ordos 100 village curated by Ai Weiwei and consulted by Herzgo & de Meuron Architects, 2008-

08/18/2019

Preparing for upcoming exhibition ArchiLeaks by Srdjan Jovanovic Weiss at the Museum oif Contemporary Art Skopje, North Macedonia. Opening October 24, 2019

02/11/2019

1999. NAO. We brought memory of Lina Bo Bardi’s design for the Museum of Modern Art of Sao Paolo to New York. No .

02/07/2019

2013. NAO in Flint, Michigan, at the Chevy-in-the-hole car plant, defunct. The outdoor installation: Space Between the Rail and the Fence was 400 feet long gesture, one of the two installed, creating a hall to walk through as if being in a protocol of sorts. NAO team: Srdjan Jovanovic Weiss, Shelby Elizabeth Doyle and Jason Harrel. Many thanks to Flint Public Art project and Stephen Zacks.

02/06/2019

2003. Z-Blocks 1.0 - light weight modular furniture were first produced for: TIMEWALL - “Stage design for contemporary dance, St.Mark's Church, New York.
From the description:
“The stage design for Gina Gibney's "Time Remaining" intends to reflect on the impact of time on both the material and the configuration of architectural elements - and this forms a wall made of re-configurable units. By translating both decay and endurance, the modular stage set pieces at one moment are a static backdrop or a line bordering the stage; then they become mere fractures of the whole, remnants for the dancers to interact with. While the impact of time is reflected onto the material, the material influences the perception of time by its artificiality that is timeless yet subject to change. Both massive and light, the pieces are cut from plastic composites by using CNC (computer numerically controlled) technology, where the material is literally eroded by a beam of water into its final shape. Yet once on the stage, the elements of the set take on many shapes; rotating, turning and laid on the floor, they are at the same time pieces of a large assembly, and individual elements within their curvature the dancers will find shells, backrests and seats.”

02/05/2019

02/05/2019

NAO.NYC thesis studio at CUNY_CCNY_SSA Spring 2019.

02/05/2019

2007. NAO.NYC worked with legendary architect/artists Yona Friedman to design and install his first exhibition in the US and in New York. Cardboard, cardboard, cardboard. We were abroad, in Basel at the time, collaborating with H&deM, so everything was remote both for Friedman and for us. One thing was confirmed, Yona is a man of his free words. The exhibition About Cities was set at The Drawing Center and curated by Katherine Carl. Link: http://www.drawingcenter.org/en/drawingcenter/5/exhibitions/327/yona-friedman/

04/28/2017

Flashback: NAO's Z-Blocks confronting the Empire.