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AN.ONYMOUS Architects Show Us How Obstacles Make for Better Projects

2018-04-16T09:00:00-04:00

AN.ONYMOUS is a transdisciplinary design firm based in Los Angeles and New York. Founded by Iman Ansari and Marta Nowak, the studio focuses on speculative approaches towards architecture and urbanism in relation to ecology, technology and biology. Since its inception in 2012, AN.ONYMOUS has engaged in numerous international projects, encompassing a diverse range of scales from urban and architectural design to furniture and prosthetics.

For this week's Small Studio Snapshots, we talk with the duo about growing a small practice and embracing all of the obstacles along the way.

Designing the Hyperspace: UCLA studio imagines Hyperloop's future in California

2015-04-01T09:01:00-04:00

Walking into the enormous Hercules building on UCLA’s IDEAS campus, in the tech-infused suburb of Playa Vista, feels a bit like a traveling through a rip in space-time. The Hercules building is a giant airplane hangar – now, it’s neighbor to YouTube’s offices and a twin hangar where film studios stage scenes for steroidal Hollywood blockbusters like Transformers and Avatar, and formerly, it housed Howard Hughes’ Spruce Goose. And since last fall, the hangar has played host to another audacious promise of transportation technology: the Hyperloop.