New Practices in Conversation: AUR & IGG with Nahyun Hwang

In conjunction with the New Practices New York 2025: Voice exhibition, the AIANY New Practices Committee is hosting a three-part event series, featuring the six winning firms of this year’s New Practices New York: Voice competition. A biennial competition since 2006, New Practices New York serves as New York City’s pre-eminent platform to recognize and promote new and innovative architecture and design firms. Each event in the series will feature a lecture by two winning firms followed by a moderated discussion that will highlight their range of work and approach to this year’s theme, Voice.

Speakers:
Aurgho Jyoti, AIA, Founder and Creative Director, AUR
Ignacio G. Galán, Founder, IGG

Moderator:
Nahyun Hwang, Partner, NHDM Architects

About the Firms:
AUR, और in Hindi, signifies the "other" and signals a "prompt". AUR (Architecture Urbanism Research) is an international architecture practice between New York and New Delhi invested in providing a voice for the other. Architecture is perceived as a responsibility, and history as an instrument to facilitate cultural continuity, social equity, and material specificity. We are interested in an architecture of material and memory that crafts histories of the future thoughtfully excavating histories of the past. The work is embedded in narratives of cultural significance, social relevance, and environmental resilience, addressing the crises of our times. Architecture remains a highly political act and the production of space gets contested through forces of migration, labour, climate, and colonialism. AUR was founded in 2019 by Aurgho Jyoti. He was educated as an architect at Harvard, Cornell, and SPA Delhi. The firm’s awards include AIA Long Island Archi Award 2024, India Humanitarian Hub Award 2022, and India Art, Architecture, Design Biennale 2023.

IGG seeks to contribute to the shaping of coalitions, both in its exploration of architecture as a mediator of diverse forms of interdependence and in its operation through diverse forms of collaboration. Architecture is an enactment of complex social and environmental articulations: not the container and representation of pre-packaged relationships but a medium for motley associations. The material definition of architecture makes the encounter of diverse individuals possible and assembles communities amongst them. It also shapes ecosystems that bring together otherwise independent organisms. IGG explores how these encounters situate architecture within alternative forms of gathering, shifting pursuits for belonging, new forms of support, and distinct positionings within the environment. Seeking to participate in these encounters, IGG practice situates architecture within alliances amongst difference.

More Events in the Series:
June 9: New Practices in Conversation: A+A+A & aanda with Koray Duman
June 26: New Practices in Conversation: BAAB & Mattaforma with Tal Schori