With nearly 38 years of experience in performing public service architecture, Asian Neighborhood Design is dedicated to providing low and moderate income community residents with a full range of high quality professional architectural and planning services. Established in 1973, our Architecture Division is experienced with a variety of building and construction types, including space planning and tenant improvements for non-profit community-serving agencies, day care facilities, affordable low-income housing and multi-unit special-user residential projects, and other facilities addressing people with special needs.  We specialize in incorporating construction efficiencies, sustainable materials and creative design solutions in projects. The architects and designers of A.N.D. have gained a unique breadth of experience in working with other non-profit and community organizations and have participated in more than 300 projects to provide social services and housing for the Bay Area’s low-income communities. The staff has vast experience with seismic retrofitting, building code and life safety issues, adaptive reuse, disabled access requirements, and historic design and research.

A.N.D. provides a variety of services including full architectural services; capital needs assessments, feasibility studies, and community development assistance. We support efforts in the greening of affordable housing by looking at the reduction of waste in construction and materials, maintaining indoor air quality and in the efficiency of building systems and practices.

A.N.D. is nationally recognized for design sensitivity to community concerns, and has received recognition both in the community and in the architecture profession for the quality of its services. Our work has received awards and recognition by the California Preservation Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development and Architectural Record. In 2005, in collaboration with Geoffrey Holton and Associates, A.N.D. was recognized under the San Francisco Prize Competition for the Octavia Boulevard Housing Competition with the “Award for Meritorious Community Ideas."