Oda New YorkODA is a New York-based architecture and design firm. In the nine years since its inception, the office has designed forty-five buildings in New York City, encompassing a broad range of scales and typologies. They are not looking to create monuments ut to divert the perspective of dwelling and over time influence the city. ODA strives to rearrange priorities and put people first, searcing of the best practices to develop a new paradigm that infects vertical living with the social qualities of the low scale housing formulas. Its designs are meditating this condition, envisioning spaces that satisfy three human needs: the desire to observe wide perspectives and reach beyond boundaries, protection and intimacy, and the transition between in and out. The office works within the system to exploit the system. Read More Read Less