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

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?

A recent extracurricular trip took me up to New Haven, where the suggested event parking was… in none other than Paul Ru...
09/18/2025

A recent extracurricular trip took me up to New Haven, where the suggested event parking was… in none other than Paul Rudolph’s Temple Street Parking Garage! It’s “brutal,” no doubt, and for such a simple layout it was confusing as hell to get around inside, but it’s no doubt super beautiful sculpture and just the right balance of ugly with pretty for me… I loved it.





Circling back to a small but very very sweet little outdoor-spaces-only project that is moving into construction, with s...
09/14/2025

Circling back to a small but very very sweet little outdoor-spaces-only project that is moving into construction, with some photos from last Friday's visit to Francisco Viveros at Metal Prestige in East New York, who is fabricating the planter boxes. What a tight and professional shop, and such an easy conversation instead of what often devolves into a battle of wills. The work looks great. Perhaps someday I will get to spend more of my days in a shop like this....












More Azores: spectacular and wild hot springs bathing in the ocean, thoroughly genteel parkland hot springs bathing in t...
02/12/2024

More Azores: spectacular and wild hot springs bathing in the ocean, thoroughly genteel parkland hot springs bathing in the rain.







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A couple winter vacation latergrams (if that is that still a thing) from the Azores Islands. Credit to my wife for dragg...
02/09/2024

A couple winter vacation latergrams (if that is that still a thing) from the Azores Islands. Credit to my wife for dragging me to this confounding, beautiful place.





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Bathroom tile too… Meadow Passive House – AKA 73 Mitchell Street – Hillsdale, NY. For inquiries contact our brokers Simo...
02/07/2024

Bathroom tile too… Meadow Passive House – AKA 73 Mitchell Street – Hillsdale, NY. For inquiries contact our brokers Simone Consor (214) 558-2115 and Michael Stasi (732) 241-1723 at Corcoran Country Living.



























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Kitchen cabinets, getting close. Thanks to Palo Samko. Meadow Passive House – AKA 73 Mitchell Street - Hillsdale NY. For...
02/06/2024

Kitchen cabinets, getting close. Thanks to Palo Samko. Meadow Passive House – AKA 73 Mitchell Street - Hillsdale NY. For inquiries contact our brokers Simone Consor (214) 558-2115 and Michael Stasi (732) 241-1723 at Corcoran Country Living.



























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Winter beach, Breezy Point, NYC, looking across the Coney Island Channel at Brighton Beach and Coney Island.
02/05/2024

Winter beach, Breezy Point, NYC, looking across the Coney Island Channel at Brighton Beach and Coney Island.










Winter beach, Ft Tilden, NYC. This little strip of abandoned military base is an oasis.
02/05/2024

Winter beach, Ft Tilden, NYC. This little strip of abandoned military base is an oasis.









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