Firm Bio: 

Darin Johnstone Architects (DJA) is an award-winning, Los Angeles-based practice dedicated to design innovation across multiple scales and building types. A belief in architecture as an overarching discipline emboldens the practice to accept a wide range of design challenges, including: urban planning, master planning, programming, building design, landscape design, interior design, furniture design and more.

Firm Philosophy:

Collaboration, invention, form and engagement generally describe a kind of trajectory we strive to produce afresh each time we are given the opportunity to design something. Every design problem contains the capacity to engender discovery. That potential is what drives the work. As a way of combating pre-determination we attempt to engage each project on its own terms mining it for potential partnerships, techniques, systems and modes of operation. Despite the tyrannical forces of economy and fashion we continually strive to maintain a non-specialist experimental approach.