Ryan Enschede Studio

Ryan Enschede Studio Sustainable architecture adapted to New York City’s climate and built conditions. Making poetry out o

Founded in 2006, Ryan Enschede Studio is a small architecture firm striving to find a new built poetry through development of sustainable architectural solutions adapted to New York City's unique climate and built conditions. Technical areas of expertise include ultra-low energy and Passivehouse construction, sunlighting, and alternative energy. Additional areas of focus include passive heating an

d cooling, climate-responsive design, and building-integrated vegetation. I believe these ingredients can create a critical pleasure and a returned intimacy with “nature” in our built environment. I work for clients seeking professionally delivered architectural services and high-quality outcomes who demand both aesthetic and technical excellence, and who strive to balance the altruistic with the economic. Although I bring a clear viewpoint to any project I most enjoy working collaboratively with an active client to get inside the needs of a project and together make it into art. accreditation:
State of New York: Licensed, Registered Architect
New York City: Special Inspection Agency No. 001612
Passive House Institute US: Consultant in Training
United States Green Building Council: LEED accredited professional

education:
Passive House Institute US: Passive House Training, 2008
Art Student's League of NY: 2000 – 2005
Pacific Northwest College of Art: 1995, 1998
University of Oregon: B.ARCH, 1996

finally had a chance to stop into the AIA's Center for Arch...
07/10/2026

finally had a chance to stop into the AIA's Center for Arch...

I had the happy occasion to celebrate my Niece's graduation yesterday, and the surprise of the event being held in this ...
05/24/2026

I had the happy occasion to celebrate my Niece's graduation yesterday, and the surprise of the event being held in this building. So... many... thoughts: an immensely impressive technical accomplishment... a confoundingly complex and gigantically precise single-layer skin construction that was clearly not leaking at all on a rainy day... beautiful, beautiful material contrast between the glowing satin-y metal set against the lush green backdrop. Also the classic Ghery outside/inside, front/back disconnect... gloomy daylighting and a bit all-over-the-place in the the lobbies between skin and house, where the potential for interesting-ness was greatest. And then there was the political backdrop of a private, largely politically 'progressive' (I believe?) liberal-arts college holding its Master's degree graduation ceremony - complete with Epstein-fueled student protest disruption - unironically within what must be one of the costliest $/sf buildings I've ever set foot in. Whew. So many thoughts. But regardless: congrats Emi!!

Nothing like having an old friend visit to get me out to see stuff: Walter DeMaria's Broken Kilometer. I almost forgot h...
04/08/2026

Nothing like having an old friend visit to get me out to see stuff: Walter DeMaria's Broken Kilometer. I almost forgot how cool this thing is. REALLY gives me the urge to go heft one of those babies. And I kinda feel like surely there must be some dust bunnies in the back there. But how cool that this is still here, open to the public, surrounded by what SoHo has become?

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