MODU

07/14/2025

MODU recently exhibited at the Île-de-France Architecture and Landscape Biennale in Versailles, France. In the exhibition “4 Degrees Between You and Me,” architects highlighted the importance of learning from southern climates as cities in temperate regions continue to heat up. Our contribution connected the climate-adaptable design of Promenade in Houston with our research on micro-climates along New York City’s sidewalks. Many thanks to curators and for including us in this necessary conversation and congratulation on the exhibit!

01/31/2025

We are honored that has been nominated as the building of the year by . It exemplifies the many ways to connect to our by spending more time in the environmental thresholds between indoors and outdoors.

06/05/2024

The migratory corridor of the Snake River brings wildlife close to people, with elks, moose, deer, and bears found nearby and

05/31/2024

&habitats

05/29/2024

Between indoors and outdoors
An all-weather room provides visitors with experiences of thermal diversity. This room, open to the outdoors during the winter, includes hot and cold plunge pools. During inclement weather, the adaptable room is closed to the exterior and open to the interior, with a sauna and a fireplace for gathering. The pools, sauna, and radiant heating use geothermal energy.

05/27/2024

and A raised walkway connects the deck to the terrace, weaving through tree groves with a reading area surrounded by foliage. Habits and Habitats is both an immersive nature experience and a restorative retreat.

05/24/2024

and The observatory is a net zero energy building that meets passive house building standards, though untypically it does so while enabling seasonal open connections to the outdoors. architecture #

05/11/2024

05/02/2024

01/11/2024

Latest News from MODU -

11/27/2023

MODU’s ‘Field Guide to Indoor Urbanism’ is available in bookstores now! This “field guide” leaves behind the binary idea of inside and outside and rather understands architecture as an extension of the environment. Phu Hoang and Rachely Rotem look at three major cities on different continents: New York, Rome, and Tokyo. Book link in bio.

The book was launched in October at an event in New York City’s . This has been followed by several lectures and book talks, some of which included conversations with friends and colleagues. Thank you to Enrique Walker, , , and Michael . Also, tremendous thanks to book designer Sarah Gephart , editor , and publisher .

09/19/2023

MODU's book launch at Rizzoli -

Published by the interdisciplinary studio MODU, this "field guide" explores threshold spaces between the interior and the exterior. What are experiences between architecture and the environment? Where can the boundaries between the interior and the urban be drawn? What role does the climate crisis p...