About ANX – Aaron Neubert Architects
The work of ANX – Aaron Neubert Architects begins with a fundamental optimism with regard to the continued value and impact that design and architecture have on our cities and their inhabitants. Our approach is positive, opportunistic, and intellectually flexible with every theoretical and commissioned project – both large and small. Our belief is that one can affect significant change through a careful analysis and deconstruction of project conditions, and the application of a thoughtful, conceptually rigorous process.
Constraints are opportunities. A broad analysis of a project’s site conditions, environmental context, program, budget, schedule, and jurisdictional parameters are mined for latent opportunities to be metabolized towards innovative and novel design solutions. Our process resists the autonomous and pure in favor of the dependent, messy, and complex possibilities of a poetic inclusion of multiple and often conflicting influences. This process ultimately leads to the intersection of architecture, landscape, and urban networks, and the inherent negotiations necessary to implement a coherent experience respectful of the impact upon the environment.
Assumptions are challenged. Our understanding of the capacity for design to organize complex systems with thoughtful intention, environmental appropriateness, and a practical dose of both form and function, is coupled with our belief in the responsibility of the designer to ask questions and challenge assumptions of the built environment. Our ongoing interest in developing experiences that explore space, scale, orientation, light, detail, materiality, and emerging technologies is demonstrated in a wide range of residential, cultural, commercial and landscape projects that question, and when appropriate, inflect existing paradigms.
Flexibility is required. We do not jump to conclusions; we test conventional and novel solutions to problems with equal fervor. The manipulation and application of accepted organizational typologies, as well as the transposition of foreign typologies are all fair game. Our design process takes into consideration numerous configurations for all projects and attempts to embed conceptual rigor within each. However, the project’s performance is maintained as the ultimate proof of its success.
Collaborations are embraced. To this end, the work of the studio draws on the expertise of the principal, staff, clients, consultants, and a diverse network of contractors, designers, artists and fabricators. We assemble the right team and design a working method specific to each project. We’ve instituted advanced tools to study, experiment, visualize, and communicate to our clients the development of each project throughout the creative process.
LOCATION: Los Angeles, California / Las Vegas, Nevada
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ANX / Aaron Neubert Architects unveil R+R House, a stunning architectural achievement perched gracefully on a primary hillside in Silver Lake, Los Angeles, designed for both aesthetic harmony and functionality.
Aaron Neubert Architects presents Pyramid Place House, a residence for a young family perched atop Los Angeles’ Hollywood Hills, offering commanding views of the San Fernando Valley, Griffith Park, and the iconic Hollywood Sign.
Weary from years of two-hour work commutes, the project owners engaged ANX / Aaron Neubert Architects to develop a new residence within a mile of their Southern California manufacturing company’s facility and offices.
The original Hanna-Barbera Production studio is the site for this adaptive-reuse transformation for a rising film production company’s headquarters. Affectionately called “The Bunker” by Hanna-Barbera’s employees for the windowless treatment of the one-story building
Sited on a private coastal California hillside street lined with five tightly stacked homes, the 3000 square foot residence optimizes a compact footprint, resulting in an experience that maximizes outdoor living, without compromising the privacy of the family.
The project site for this 2,100 sf residence is a 3,750 sf ascending northwesterly facing parcel with panoramic views towards Los Angeles’ Silver Lake Hills and Reservoir. The Tilt-Shift House is situated adjacent to multiple significant mid-century modern homes
Located in the Elysian Heights neighborhood of Los Angeles, the Echo House and detached artist studio are positioned to perceptually inhabit the adjacent community garden, and present views of the downtown skyline and surrounding hills
