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Iman Ansari is an architectural historian, designer, and assistant professor of architecture at The Ohio State University’s Knowlton School. His work examines the intersections of architecture with science, technology, and medicine in the modern era, particularly how architectural elements and building technologies mediate social norms and scientific protocols. 

His writings have appeared in the Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, Architectural Theory Review, Log, Cabinet, Thresholds, and Places, among others. As founding principal of AN.ONYMOUS, which he leads in collaboration with Marta Nowak, Ansari has worked on projects with NASA JPL and Hyperloop Transportation Technologies. Their work has been recognized with awards and exhibited at MoMA PS1, Hammer Museum, A+D Museum, the European Centre for Architecture, and in the permanent collection of the Chicago Athenaeum: Museum of Architecture & Design. 

“At Spitzer, I found myself in an environment where diverse cultural identities and intellectual approaches couldn’t be separated from one another, where different ways of seeing and thinking about the world constantly informed each other. As both a scholar and a practitioner, this fundamental understanding continues to shape my approach to architecture as a global discourse with rich interconnected histories and ideologies.”