NOUMEN STUDIO
Noumen Studio is an architecture and design collective dedicated to enhancing human life by applying technological innovation and interdisciplinary research methods to the design process.
Building on our diverse experience from New York, London, and Budapest, we work with the conviction that good design, shaped around the human experience, positively influences well-being, creativity, and productivity.
Informed by neuroaesthetics, the study of how the brain responds to art and the design of our surroundings, our mission is to go beyond the world of observed phenomena and access the unknowable.
AKOS ORBAN
After graduating from Budapest University of Technology and Economics, and working with Balazs at 81font Architecture & Design on award-winning projects, Akos moved to New York to work with Suchi Reddy at Reddymade.
While at Reddymade, Akos gathered knowledge on building the design process around the human experience while utilizing and contributing to the field of neuroaesthetics in different art and architecture projects.
Akos is a PhD-in-practice researcher at Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design.
Titled Feeling Architecture, his research explores how our environments impact our physical and mental wellbeing. It is a phenomenology-based research revolving around neuroaesthetics, multisensorial aesthetics, atmospheres, and how to apply all that knowledge to practice.
BALAZS HUDY
After graduating from Budapest University of Technology and Economics, and working together with Akos at 81font Architecture & Design on award-winning projects, Balazs moved to London to work with Jonathan Tuckey Design.
While at JTD, Balazs gathered knowledge on how to find the soul of an existing structure, and recontextualize them using innovative building materials and technologies.
Balazs is a PhD-in-practice researcher at Budapest University of Technology and Economics this fall.
His research explores the harmony between old and new, looking for the fine line where they can support each other in architecture, and seeking technologies to transform and reuse the existing building stock for our modern needs.