For over 65 years, Kanner Architects has established an approach to modernist design that is aesthetically and contextually cohesive.  Each project is treated as an endeavor of passion; we take our sensibilities as a studio and run it through the filter of each project’s specific challenge.  Sensitive to site and budget, mindful of conservation and sustainability, we take every opportunity to achieve the most creative design solutions to enhance the built environment. 

Kanner has received over 50 design awards, many from the local, state and national chapters of the American Institute of Architect.  Our collaboration with Lorcan O’Herlihy Architects won the 2010 AIACC and AIA/LA Awards for Disney’s IM Digital Facility.  The firm won the 2008 AIA National Housing Committee Award.  It has also brought home the Chicago Athenaeum:  Museum of Architecture and Design Award, the Next LA Award, the IDEA Award as well as numerous Los Angeles Business Council Awards.

Internationally recognized, Kanner Architects has been featured in several publications such as Abitare, the Architect’s Newspaper, Architecture, Architectural Record, Architectural Digest, Dwell, GRID, Interior Design, L’Arca, LA Architect, Metropolis, the Los Angeles Times, the New York Times and Trends.  Beyond our extensive local work, we have designed projects in New York Nashville, Oakland, Ghana as well as 130 stores for PUMA, which appear in every major city in North America, Europe and Asia.  Monographs on the firm’s work were published in 1998 and 2006.