UCLA Architecture and Urban Design interview West of West co-founders
"In 2014, UCLA Architecture and Urban Design alumni Jai Kumaran and Clayton Taylor (both MArch '11) founded West of West, an architecture and research practice with completed projects in Los Angeles, New York, Tokyo, San Francisco, Seattle, Austin, and Portland. Kumaran, Taylor, and their office engage the worlds of design, art, culture, and technology to shape contemporary life and the built environment at all scales. They seek collaboration with pioneering people and organizations to develop environmentally and socially responsive buildings and communities. Their projects interweave innovation and craft, and include new models of housing, retail environments, creative workplaces, and experimental urban infill structures."...
...read the full interview at the link above.