Andre Kikoski Architecture (AKA) is committed to the idea that architecture should be both transformative and transformational. For AKA, architecture is a definitive tool for advancing communities and cities to make our world a better place. The firm defines its success in terms of its ability to solve problems with dynamic and elegant new ideas for these and future generations. Agnostic to scale, typology, budget, and location, AKA works across a global range of creative endeavors to rethink what others take for granted. With a sense of nimbleness, a focus on craft and materiality, and an encyclopedic reservoir of historical knowledge, AKA reimagines cities, buildings, interiors, and environments that respond to social, cultural, and ecological needs, and it injects a sense of energy, change, and joy into whatever challenges present themselves.
Going beyond function and aesthetics, the firm’s projects examine the future of work, the future of food, and the future of living, among other topics. From a new workplace that responds to the shifting culture of work, to a net-zero farm that revolutionizes agriculture in the desert, to a dramatically sited oceanfront house designed to the highest standards of climate resilience, and other projects, AKA’s values-driven architecture examines, and solves for, pressing issues of our time.
AKA’s portfolio has garnered more than 70 international design awards and includes private residences, workplaces, galleries and museums, mixed-use developments, hospitality projects, and public and cultural projects. AKA has been featured in more than 1,000 publications across 30 countries, including Architectural Digest, Architectural Record, Fast Company, Interior Design, Surface, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and Wallpaper*.
