Our Studio Nyandak Dharamsala team went back to Zanskar to continue documentation of the Valley’s monasteries and nunneries. They drew the elevations and sections and documented the damage of each monastery's main chapel building. See more about this research project here!

The abbot of the Rato Dratsang visited our Dharamsala office to discuss the ongoing Rato Dratsang campus design.

Our office donated a large poster of the U-2 spy plane image of Lhasa taken in 1959 to the Tibet Museum director Tenzin Topdhen la in Gangkyi, Dharamsala. The image was generously donated by our research collaborator Lin Xu as part of our Tibet from Above research initiative.

Our office donated a large poster of the U-2 spy plane image of Lhasa taken in 1959 to the director of Library of Tibetan Works and Archive (LTWA) Geshe Lhakdor la in Dharamsala. The image was generously donated by our collaborator Lin Xu as part of our Tibet from Above research initiative.

Our Dharamsala team took a field trip to the city of Chandigarh to visit several material fabricators and distributors. They also visited the Rock Garden designed by the incredibly gifted artist Nek Chand. This trip was part of our ongoing efforts in the Studio Nyandak Workshop.

Lin Xu visited our NYC office to discuss the Tibet From Above research project and to share his immense knowledge about U-2 spy plane and satellite images. We are very grateful to him for his generosity in sharing his knowledge and deep passion with our team.

Once a month, our Dharamsala office members go out for a team dinner and explore different restuarants in the Dharamsala area. Their favourite spot is the karaoke bar in McLeod Ganj.

The Radio Free Asia interviewed Studio Nyandak for our ongoing pro bono work to renovate and transform the lower Tibetan Children's Village school into a Tibetan-medium school for children visiting from the west.

We hosted a meeting in our NYC office to discuss several of our research projects with our collaborators Prof. Karl Ryavec, Catherine Tsuji and Prof. Gray Tuttle.

The Studio Nyandak teams from both NYC and Dharamsala visited the remote Himalayan region of Zanskar to work on the documentation of monasteries and nunneries. We were fortunate enough to be joined by our collaborators John Harrison and Ingun Amundsen. Tenzin was a summer intern for John Harrison back in 2007, and together they worked on the renovation of Munshi House in the old Leh town in Ladakh.

We received a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) to work with the non-profit Folkstreams and Drung film collective to produce a documentary on our Zanskar research work. The documentary will be completed by the end of 2024 and will be hosted on Folkstreams website.

Studio Nyandak completed the fit-out of our NYC office located at Union Square. The workstations and furniture were designed and fabricated on site in light Baltic birch plywood. A model making workshop and our library emphasize our interest in interdisciplinary design and iterative work processes.