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Ball-Nogues Studio is an integrated design and fabrication practice that creates experimental built environments to enhance and celebrate the potential for social interaction through sensation, spectacle and physical engagement while striving to infuse the matter of the built environment with a downstream purpose. To achieve these results, we work with unusual materials, develop new digital tools, and apply architectural techniques in unorthodox ways. We share an enthusiasm for the fabrication process as it relates to the built object both physically and poetically by letting the properties, limitations, and economic scenarios associated with a material guide a structure's ultimate form while developing methods to extend the intertwined boundaries of a material's aesthetics, physical potential and lifecycle.

Indianapolis Museum of Art, installation, September 2010

UCLA campus, installation, Los Angeles, April 2010

Cradle, Santa Monica Parking Structure 7, Santa Monica, 2010

Linking Hand Cloud, Mercy Housing, San Francisco, 2010

Linking Hand Veil, Mercy Housing, San Francisco, 2010

Linking Hand Screen, Mercy Housing, San Francisco, 2010

Built to Wear, Shenzhen, China, 2009

Spock's Blocks, Bordeaux, France, 2009

LA County Permit Office interior, Los Angeles, CA, 2009

Exposed, Long Beach, CA, 2009

Elastic Plastic Sponge, Coachella Valley Music and Art Festival, CA, 2009

Feathered Edge, MOCA, Los Angeles, CA, 2009

Elastic Plastic Sponge, Indio, CA, 2009

Echoes Converge, Venice, Italy, 2008

Copper Droopscape, Indio, CA, 2008

Unseen Current, Chicago, IL, 2008

Liquid Sky, Museum of Modern Art / P.S.1, NY, 2007

Skin + Bones, Los Angeles, CA, 2006

Rip Curl Canyon, Houston, TX, 2006

Maximilian's Schell, Los Angeles, CA, 2005

2009 UCLA Arts Initiative Grant

2008 Graham Foundation Exhibition Grant, Life Cycle Design in Temporary Spatial Installation through Cross Manufacturing.

2007 Interior Design Magazine, Best of Year - Exhibition / Installation, Rip Curl Canyon

2007 United States Artists Target Fellowship

2007 California Home and Design Magazine, 10 to Watch

2007 Los Angeles AIA Design Award, Citation - Rip Curl Canyon

2007 Otis College of Art and Design, O Award and Grant

2007 Museum of Modern Art P.S.1., Young Architects Program - Winner

2006 LA Architect Magazine, 10 to Watch

2006 Durfee Foundation, Artist's Resource for Completion Grant

2006 Los Angeles AIA Design Award, Honor Award - Maximilian's Schell Installation

2006 I.D. Magazine Annual Design Review, Best of Category: Environments