How Nicolay Boyadjiev is prototyping new types of architecture practice

A co-founder and the director of re:arc institute's Practice Lab, Nicolay is helping connect philanthropy and architecture in service of climate action.

263. Nicolay Boyadjiev

Nicolay Boyadjiev is an architect and creative director based between Copenhagen, Sofia and Mexico City. He is the Director of the Practice Lab at re:arc institute, where he oversees research, strategy and new explorations prototyping alternatives models for philanthropy in architecture. Previously, he was Co-Director of Strelka Institute’s influential design-research program in Moscow.

In this conversation, Jarrett and Nicolay talk about his work at re:arc, new forms of funding architectural projects, and thinking about philanthropy as a design project.

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