NANO is a renowned architecture firm based in New Orleans. For us, architecture is about building environments that connect to the present while opening possibilities for the future.
Founded in 2001 by Terri and Ian Dreyer, the firm has cultivated a diverse portfolio that spans cultural, civic, commercial, retail, residential, industrial, hospitality, and education sectors, focusing on projects that enhance the built environment and foster a stronger sense of place.

Persistent design is the implicit intent to create occupiable art that both reflects and expands the architectural language of our time. The success of our ethos is one of spatial relationships based upon a series of scales where every project encompasses not only the most removed, observable viewpoint, but also the most detailed. No programmatic element is ever overlooked, whether large or small in scale. We approach every project not only at the scale of the city, the block and the street, but also at the level of the smallest minutiae – the joint, the reveal and the grain. No scale is superior, but rather informative, relating to the other, culminating in a unified architectural language.