The New York Times profiles two up and coming big-name architects, Gaston Nogues and Benjamin Ball.

In an era that celebrates big-name architects and multimillion-dollar building projects, Gaston Nogues and Benjamin Ball offer a change of pace. One wears siren-red Converse sneakers, the other a beatnik fedora and goatee; their studio is a three-car garage in the Echo Park section of Los Angeles that is taken up mostly by building tools. Neither has yet turned 40.