Manifesting ideas in everyday building
Now Here is an award-winning Los Angeles-based office working on a range of scales from objects to buildings. Formed in 2017, Now Here is equally interested in the tangible and intangible, the abstract and the material, but mostly in the tension between them. Both “Nowhere” and “Now Here”, the work of the office looks to ideas and things to loosen conventions and generate new possibilities in architecture.
TEAM
KATY BARKAN formed Now Here in 2017 as a studio that would bring together multiple modes of practice from drawings to objects, texts to buildings. She received the Rome Prize in Architecture at the American Academy in Rome in 2020 and has exhibited her work widely, including at the Venice Biennale, the UCLA galleries, and at the American Academy in Rome. Her built projects and writing have been published in Architectural Record, Architect’s Newspaper, and Log Magazine, among others. Katy is faculty at UCLA where she has been teaching since 2014. Before joining the faculty of UCLA, Katy taught at Harvard Graduate School of Design where she also received her M.Arch.
HANNAH HORTICK joined Now Here in 2021. She received a B.S. in Architecture from UIC and worked for several years at Canopy Architecture + Design focusing on affordable multi-family projects in Chicago. She received her M.Arch from UCLA and is currently faculty at Woodbury University.
RECENT COLLABORATORS
Jingbo Huang
Laura Grombone
Michael Deprez
Zephyr Zhu
Sana Jahani
Sarah Caluag
Eric Wall
Christina Moushoul
Melinda Denn
Chihiro Isono
Kristen Fong
Casey Knudsen
Nick Miller
Photo by Catherine Opie
Website and Identity by Still Room Studio