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Marta Nowak is a founding principal of AN.ONYMOUS. She is a licensed architect and is currently the Senior Innovation Manager at Google R+D. 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.

Iman Ansari is an architectural historian, designer, and educator. He is a founding principal of AN.ONYMOUS and an Assistant Professor of Architecture at the Knowlton School. His work explores the application of scientific method and experimental approaches towards architecture and its modes of production. His work has been published widely and exhibited at international venues including the Venice Architecture Biennale, the Hammer Museum, the A+D Museum, and the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York. Ansari research examines the intertwined relationship between architecture and medicine in the production of scientific knowledge and professional expertise in the nineteenth century in the United States. He has contributed to multiple books and edited volumes on architectural history and theory, landscape architecture and urbanism. His writings have appeared in Architectural Review, Architectural Theory Review, Architect’s Newspaper, Journal for the Society of Architectural Historians (JSAH), Log, Metropolis, Places Journal, and Room One Thousand among others. Ansari has previously taught the City College of New York Spitzer School of Architecture, UNLV School of Architecture, UCLA Architecture and Urban Design, and USC School of Architecture. He 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 Ph.D. in Architecture from UCLA.