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Hiring an AIA architect could be the best decision you'll make for your residential or commercial design project. Our members encompass large firms, sole practitioners, and everything in between! One thing they all have in common - they are proud members of the American Institute of Architects, meaning they exemplify the highest standards of professional integrity, sustainability, and knowledge. AIA architects pursue design excellence and uphold ethical standards of practice. Find an AIA architect at a firm near you. Query our database of amazing architects and designers, or use the search bar below for specific inquiries.
Cyrus Cowasjee Architects (CCA) is an Architecture, Interior Design, and Design/Build Professional Corporation located in Encinitas in North County San Diego. Our goal is to reflect the client’s core values by understanding their work process and providing creative options through the dynamic use of space.
DGA is one of California's leading advanced firms specializing in the design of technical facilities for the advancement of the life sciences, technology, mission critical, healthcare and education.
DGA’s philosophy is built around the concept of "The Union of Design and Technology". Our focus is on providing an exceptional combination of design, systems integration and technical expertise to create a solution that joins the “Technology” created by the Client with the “Design” created by the Architect.
With principal architects Paul Gallegos and Josh Eckle's combined 40 years of architectural experience, AlphaStudio Design Group is able to provide completed projects that exceeds the client's expectations and create a true sense of home.
Our studio is centered on a collaborative approach to design, bringing the owner, architect, and contractor to the table early and often. Utilizing this approach we are able to provide architectural services that respond to the pragmatic needs of the project, but also go beyond and address the artistic necessity that creates memorable spaces.
The DuCharme Architecture design process, led by Laura DuCharme Conboy, AIA, involves the creation of inspiring and engaging custom single family residences. Our client and project-specific approach ensures the final design to be a personal fit, whether contemporary or traditional. Ultimately, we create spaces that enhance and enrich peoples' lives, and we take that very personally.
Established in 1985 by Principal Architect, John S. Beery A.I.A., BGI Architecture has over 35 years of experience creating built environments to enhance our client’s lifestyle. As a full service architectural design firm, we credit design creativity, building quality, problem solving, and budgetary experience as keys to our success.
Christian Rice Architects is an AIA award winning architectural practice based in Coronado, California. Our portfolio of work includes a wide range of public and private projects. Christian and his team work closely with all clients and are focused on listening to all aspects of a specific program in order to develop a cohesive approach to each project. Our goal is to create architecture that responds to the site, the surrounding environment, and the specific needs of each client, including their budget. The firm is committed to seamless project management, achieved through open collaboration with all members of a project team. We strive to deliver architecture that is not only functional, but timeless, engaging, and unique.
CRB is a leading provider of sustainable engineering, architecture, construction and consulting solutions to the global life sciences and advanced technology industries. Our more than 1,000 employees provide best-in-class solutions that drive success and positive change for our clients, our people and our communities. CRB is a privately held company with a rich 35-year history of serving clients throughout the world, consistently striving for the highest standard of technical knowledge, creativity and execution.
Diehl Group Architects is a full-service design and consulting firm specializing in forensic architecture, quality assurance, and expert witness testimony. We insure sound design and legal compliance throughout a buildings lifespan, from cradle to grave.
Since 1961, Delawie has made a lasting impact on Southern California’s built environments with designs that complement skylines, activate learning environments, transform communities, create corporate identities, and advance the functionality of civic and government facilities.
When John Cuningham founded Cuningham Group in 1968, he developed a model of architecture that is highly inclusive and incorporates extensive client, consultant, engineer, and contractor participation. Nurtured by John and a committed team of leaders, we have expanded locations, services, and markets over the decades to meet a growing demand from respected local, regional, national, and international clients.
SDA is composed of a diverse and talented team of professionals, working together to provide exceptional service to clients. We listen closely to clients and building users and take our architectural cues from those discussions; using our creativity to find appropriate solutions to meet your design needs.
Our work does not carry with it a stylistic signature. Instead, the common threads to all of our work are an understanding of place, context and climate; a commitment to efficiency and performance; an expression of optimism, delight and surprise; and a respect for budget, program and schedule. We infuse our work with light, air, views, and outdoor connections to bring extraordinary results to every unique project.
BNIM is an innovative leader in designing high performance environments. Through an integrated process of collaborative discovery, we create transformative, living design that leads to vital and healthy organizations and communities.
DAHLIN is a global, diverse architecture and planning practice of 150+ multicultural professionals working with developers, municipalities and private clients.
With 6 offices worldwide, DAHLIN is committed to collaborating to craft sustainable communities and urban environments. Our design solutions are innovative, real and achievable. Our people are passionate about creating places that promote human fulfillment and well-being.
As an integrated, global design firm, we leverage the heart, passion and intelligence of our more than 1,000 creative thinkers to develop solutions for some of the greatest challenges facing our clients and society. Whether designing for equity in education, accessible healthcare, inclusive communities, new scientific discoveries or the “next big idea” in business, we partner with organizations to help them improve human life.
domusstudio architecture is an award-winning design firm (formed in 1986 as Dominy + Associates Architects) with a philosophy to maintain close participation in projects, and produce quality design on a variety of project types.
domusstudio architecture strives to creatively enhance the lives of people through timeless sustainable designs, which seek to evoke an emotional, spiritual response and enrich the human experience.
AVRP Skyport is widely known across the region for its decades of design excellence, creativity, and planning some of the most prominent, visionary, and vibrant projects in Southern California. The firm is led by four principals: Douglas H. Austin, FAIA, LEED AP, MAIBC; Christopher T. Veum, AAIA, IIDA; Randy Robbins, AIA, LEED AP; and Frank Wolden.
Founded in 1975, HPI Architecture (formerly Hill Partnership) prides itself in creating tailored solutions that are reflective of our clients’ visions and objectives. Our planning, architecture, and interior design services result in plans, buildings, and spaces that foster meaningful experiences and support our client’s aspirational outcomes.
EOS Architecture specializes in high-end design through planning excellence, technical development, beauty in detailing and execution. We accomplish this by assembling an excellent team of designers, engineers and contractors. We establish a very open and transparent communication process with our clients to assure their values are revealed through the design process. os architecture provides complete architectural services from project inception through permit issuance and construction coordination. We specialize in high-end custom residential, multi-family, mixed-use, restaurant and commercial projects.
HGW Architects is an architecture, site and interior design studio that focus on the process of problem solving while making beautiful and sustainable places. We view architecture as a means to better the world and see each project and client as a unique circumstance for positive change.
KIM GRANT DESIGN, INC. is an award-winning Architectural Firm specializing in Historic Properties and Coastal Area homes. We provide personalized design services from the initial meeting thru construction and move-in.
Hauck Architecture is a San Diego based, full service Architecture and Interior Design firm specializing in craft brewery, bar, restaurant, and custom residential projects. Since 1996 we have been assisting our clients in design, layout, engineering and navigating governmental agencies for their projects. Unmatched experience, expertise, creativity and attention to detail is at forefront of every project.
Gensler is an integrated architecture, design, and planning firm with over 48 offices worldwide, providing global reach with a local touch. Consistently ranked by U.S. and international industry surveys as the leading architecture and interior design firm, we leverage our resources and expertise to develop design solutions for industries across the globe.
HMC Architects designs solutions that work, wow, and withstand. We partner with healthcare, education, and civic clients to design buildings that promote healing, inspire learning, and create vibrant communities. Whether it’s a hospital, elementary school, student union, or community center, our empowered teams are experts when it comes to delivering successful projects and creating meaningful spaces.
For over 25 years, Ergo Architecture has practiced thoughtful, specific contemporary design for passionate and highly engaged clients. Our services include architecture, interior architecture, feasibility assessment, entitlements, and permitting. Ergo Architecture has received the AIA Young Architect or the year award, and the honor of the AIA public service award.
For over 40 years, HBG Design has been pioneering the creation of imaginative and memorable guest experiences. As a Top 5 hospitality design firm in the U.S., our team of architects and interior designers share a passion for making stories come to life by shaping physical space and connecting people to place. We are hospitality and entertainment industry specialists. Our design leaders and teams translate market influences, brand, culture, original storytelling and sustainable concepts into inspired design for our clients and their guests.
With a specialization in the restoration, reconstruction and conservation of historical sites, Heritage Architecture has been invaluable in maintaining and preserving the architectural history of San Diego. Projects include some of San Diegos most treasured buildings such as the San Diego Administration Center, Santa Fe Depot, and the Balboa Theatre.
Established in 1990, Prater Architects offers a full range of architectural services to the private and corporate community. We are well versed in the design of a variety of building types, with particular expertise in the specialty of residential design. In addition, we provide construction consulting and forensic litigation to support building owners, property managers and attorneys.
As an award-winning architecture & planning firm, M.W. Steele Group’s portfolio reflects a vision built upon our clients’ needs and our extensive experience. With projects based around the world, we are best known for the contextual quality of our work and the level of sensitivity to site evident in each completed project. We are also recognized for design and planning that is simultaneously innovative and based in reality. Our staff of professionals includes architects, certified planners, and urban designers.
Legacy. Design. Service. Founded in 1946, PGAL is an international design firm specializing in architecture, interiors, engineering, and planning for a diverse portfolio of public and private sector clients.
Mascari Warner Dinh Architects is an architecture firm focusing on healthcare planning and design. We provide a unique, custom experience for our clients. We go the extra mile to understand client needs and values, and to provide a high level of service backed by seasoned staff.
Our commitment is to achieve our clients’ aspirations through collaboration, unwavering integrity and excellence in design.
Island Architects continues to build twenty-five plus years of experience into an extensive portfolio of finely designed and crafted homes. Their passion for design, rooted in modern and classical aesthetics, delivers enduring value that is singular to the client’s goals and dreams and contextual to its Southern California environment.
We see the practice of architecture as a form of art that encompasses the proportionate importance of people’s aspirations, site context, sustainable practices, past and current trends, regulations, financing and budgets.
PACIFIC 33 architects, Inc., is a collaboration of architects and designers focused on understanding the relationship between people and the built environment in order to construct spaces that promote wellness and healing.
IS Architecture is a highly qualified award-winning firm dedicated to the preservation and renewal of our built environment. The firm specializes in custom residential architecture and the historic restoration and adaptive reuse of existing structures, with an expertise in the technical, aesthetic, building code, and structural and agency review aspects of architectural design for historic structures and custom residences.
Founded in 1993 , Lord Architecture has completed scores of both public and private projects that include schools (K - 12 and university), religious facilities, health care, and commercial office projects, which reflect a balance of client needs and architectural design. Katherine Lord joined the firm in 2008, bringing her extensive experience in design and management of a wide variety of projects that include master planning, facility assessment and feasibility study, modernization, additions and expansions, and new construction projects for public school districts in Southern California.
LUCE et studio is a collaborative studio practicing at the intersection of architecture, art and design. The studio’s work spans multiple scales from regional masterplans to custom furniture. Commissions include projects for museums, corporate design firms, boutique hotels, civic institutions, colleges, and private residential clients. Canadian-born architect Jennifer Luce established the Studio in 1990.
Reyes Studio was established in 2011 and is committed to a comprehensive and holistic approach to residential architectural design and planning. Principal Architect Reggie Reyes has over 30-years experience designing quality high-end residences.
Established by the husband-and-wife team of Taal Safdie and Ricardo Rabines, Safdie Rabines Architects strives for design solutions that are sensitive to the natural and built context of each project while responding to the specific needs of its clients. The firm’s wide range of experience includes the design of residential and institutional buildings, bridge and infrastructure projects, and large urban master plans.
RY+A (Richard Yen and Associates) practices in a collaborative setting centered on the Client’s goals, needs, and aspirations. Our staff brings many years of experience in a wide variety of building types to the table.
Based in San Diego, California, the firm works throughout the Southwestern United States and has built a varied body of work ranging from private residences to affordable housing, mixed-use, civic, and urban planning projects. The firm has received numerous design awards, including three National American Institute of Architects Honor Awards. The California Council of the American Institute of Architects named Studio E one of California's Emerging Talents in 1999. Studio E's collaborative approach extends to its successful use of client and community workshops in the design process. The work of the office is noted for its understanding of place, its authenticity and its inventive optimism.
Established in 1980, the beliefs of Roesling Nakamura Terada Architects, Inc. (RNT) are firmly rooted in creating meaningful and sustainable environments that elegantly meet or exceed our clients’ objectives. With a team of 34 design professionals and support staff in our San Diego and Ventura offices, we provide a rational approach to problem solving with artistic vision and grace. Through our collaborative approach toward architectural design and programming, urban design, community planning and industrial and graphic design, RNT creates places that transform communities and enrich lives.
Taylor Design is a strategy-based design firm with practices in Architectural Design, Interior Design and Design Strategy; with offices in northern and southern California. For more than 37 years the firm has built a national reputation in the healthcare design industry, and has since established a growing presence in the education, science & technology, and senior living market sectors. Taylor Design works with clients to discover, develop, and design solutions for the built environment.
We are an award-winning, multinational integrated design firm with a team of 1,300 experts across 15 offices in the U.S. and China. We employ research, data, advanced technologies and design thinking to help clients solve their greatest challenges. Our specialists—from artists and engineers, to nurses, workplace strategists and beyond—develop beautiful, sustainable, future-focused solutions for healthcare providers, science and technology organizations, higher education and cultural institutions, urban environments, diverse workplaces, mixed-use and waterfront developments, and parks and open spaces.
The Stantec community unites approximately 22,000 employees working in over 400 locations across 6 continents. Our work—engineering, architecture, interior design, landscape architecture, surveying, environmental sciences, construction services, project management, and project economics, from initial project concept and planning through to design, construction, commissioning, maintenance, decommissioning, and remediation—begins at the intersection of community, creativity, and client relationships. With a long-term commitment to the people and places we serve, Stantec has the unique ability to connect to projects on a personal level and advance the quality of life in communities across the globe.
For 65 years, Steinberg Hart has been shaping environments and creating inspiring places through an idea driven, results-oriented approach to design.
Our team of architects, designers, planners and sustainability experts share the belief that design can create profound and unexpected connections between people and place. With a focus in education, residential, arts, urban mixed-use, hospitality, civic, and commercial office projects, our full-service architecture firm creates environments that sculpt space to shape lives in subtle and empowering ways.
A global, award winning firm, Ware Malcomb brings integrated architecture and design services with an emphasis on creative, quality design with an entrepreneurial approach.
the firm specializes in the design of commercial office, corporate, industrial, science & technology, healthcare, retail, auto, public/educational facilities and renovation projects.
RAD LAB is a San Diego based architecture firm focused on cutting edge design and development within the public and private realm.
Best known for their large scale work, such as the San Diego Central Library and expansion of the San Diego Convention Center, Tucker Sadler has been shaping the city of San Diego for over 50 years. Current works include the Portside Pier and performance park on the San Diego Bayfront.
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