PROFILE
Gaston Nogues was born and raised in Buenos Aires before moving to Los Angeles at age 12. Frequently accompanying his father to his job as an aerospace engineer, Nogues acquired a fascination with the hands-on process of building. An honors graduate in architecture from SCI-Arc, he moved directly from school into a position at Gehry Partners where he worked in product design and production and became a specialist in creative fabrication. He remained there until 2005 except for a one-year stint in 1996 as an assistant curator at a fine arts publishing house, Gemini GEL. In his current collaboration with Benjamin Ball, Nogues is focused on fabricating what they visualize; on process as it relates to the built object. In his spare time, Nogues builds custom automobiles.
Benjamin Ball and Gaston Nogues explore the nexus of art, architecture, and industrial design. Their work has been exhibited at major institutions throughout the world, including the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Guggenheim Museum; PS1; the Los Angeles County Museum of Art; arc en rêve centre d'architecture + Musée d'Art Contemporain de Bordeaux; the Venice Biennale, the Hong Kong | Shenzhen Biennale; and the Beijing Biennale. They have received numerous honors including three American Institute of Architects Design Awards, United States Artists Target Fellowships and a grant from the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts. In 2007, the Studio was the winner of the Museum of Modern Arts PS1 Young Architects Program Competition. Recently, their work became part of the permanent collection of MoMA. The partners have taught in the graduate architecture programs at the Southern California Institute of Architecture;the University of California, Los Angeles, and the University of Southern California. Their work has appeared in a variety of publications worldwide including the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, the Guardian, Architectural Record, Artforum, Icon, Log, Architectural Digest, and Sculpture.
The studio is currently working on permanent public commissions for Los Angeles World Airports, Mercy Housing San Francisco, the City of West Hollywood, the Los Angeles Community Redevelopment Agency; the City of Edmonton, Alberta; as well as a wildlife observation building in Saugerties, New York.
EDUCATION
STUDIO
Ball Nogues
AWARDS
2011 Table Cloth and Cradle Honored by Americans for the Arts Public Art Year in Review
2011Selected for the Emerging Voices Lecture Series by the Architectural League of New York
2010 Interior Design Magazine Best of Year Awards Finalist - Built to Wear, Table Cloth
2009 Los Angeles AIA Design Award, Merit – Table Cloth
2009 Shenzhen Hong Kong Biennale, Innovation Award, Built to Wear
2009 UCLA Arts Initiative Grant
2009 Graham Foundation Exhibition Grant, Life Cycle Design in Temporary Spatial Installation through Cross Manufacturing.
2008 California Home and Design Magazine, 10 to Watch
2007 United States Artists Target Fellowship
2007 Interior Design Magazine Best of Year Award - 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
2007 Los Angeles AIA Design Award, Citation – Rip Curl Canyon
2006 Durfee Foundation, Artist’s Resource for Completion Grant
2007 Los Angeles AIA Design Award, Honor Award – Maximilian’s Schell Installation
2006 LA Architect Magazine, 10 to Watch
2006 I.D. Magazine Annual Design Review, Best of Category: Environments - Maximilian's Schell
