Iman Ansari, Ph.D. is a founding principal of AN.ONYMOUS. He is an architectural historian, designer and educator, an Assistant Professor and Chair of Undergraduate Studies in Architecture at the Knowlton School at the Ohio State University. His work explores architecture's entanglement with science, technology, and medicine, examining how design mediates the relationship between bodies, environments, and institutions. He has been a TEDx speaker, keynote speaker at the Future of Architecture and Buildings Conclave in Mumbai, and has lectured at institutions across North America, Europe, Asia, and the Middle East. His writings have appeared in the Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, Architectural Theory Review, Architect's Newspaper, Log, Thresholds, and Architectural Review, among others. Prior to establishing AN.ONYMOUS, Ansari worked at numerous architectural offices in London and New York, including Foreign Office Architects (FOA), Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM), Leeser Architecture, Pei Cobb Freed & Partners, and Gensler. Ansari holds a Bachelor of Architecture from the City College of New York, a Master of Architecture in Urban Design from Harvard University Graduate School of Design, and a PhD in Architecture from UCLA.
Marta Nowak, AIA is a founding principal of AN.ONYMOUS. She is a licensed architect and is currently the Senior Innovation Manager at Google R+D, and the Christos Yessios Digital Fabrication Assistant Professor of Architecture at the Knowlton School of Architecture at the Ohio State University. Prior to establishing AN.ONYMOUS, Marta worked for multiple architecture offices including Safdie Architects in Cambridge, Toshiko Mori Architects in New York, and Skidmore, Owings, & Merrill (SOM) in New York, and was an editorial assistant at Harvard Design Magazine. Marta's art and architectural work has been widely exhibited in galleries across the United States, such as MoMA PS1 in New York, A+D Museum in Los Angeles, Catherine G. Murphy Gallery in St. Paul Minnesota and at Harvard University in Cambridge Massachusetts. She has been recipient of numerous scholarships and grants including Harvard University International Community Service Fellowship to work at the United Nations Human Settlement Programme (UN-Habitat) in Nairobi, Kenya. She has presented her work at numerous international conferences including World Economic Forum and Automobilia. She has taught in various universities, including the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), ArtCenter College of Design, and Northeastern University. Marta holds degrees in Studio Arts from St. Catherine University in Minnesota, and in architecture from Harvard University.