Kevin Daly Architects was founded in 1990 as an architectural practice with a focus on craft, construction systems, and material research in work that highlights the interrelationship of research and fabrication, material and form, sustainability and livability.

ABOUTWe maintain a fundamental belief in the practical magic of architecture. At the conjunction of alchemy and technology architecture transforms, surprises and inspires. We are committed to responding to the urgent challenge of building in an environmentally sound manner and see this as the primary mission of contemporary architecture. We work in the public realm, creating communities for education, the arts and dwelling, often by giving a second life to existing buildings through reclamation and reconsideration. Our award-winning portfolio includes environmentally and socially responsive educational, residential, and institutional projects ranging in scale from single room artist workspaces to campus master planning, including the new Ostin Music School at UCLA.

The firm’s work has been widely recognized in the press and noted for the inventiveness and ingenuity we bring to projects that demand economy and discipline. Our work in the transformation of inner-city neighborhoods demonstrates an acute awareness of context and urban design that has been recognized with a National AIA Design Award and by the Rudy Bruner Foundation with a Gold Medal for Urban Excellence. KDA was designated the 2009 “Firm of the Year” by the AIA/Los Angeles.

Current projects in the office include a housing complex for UCSB, the Robertson Recreation Center, a new basketball training facility at UCLA, and custom residences. KDA sustains a diverse scale of work, including custom residences and artist studios, non-profit collaborations, and cultural buildings.

3617 W Exposition Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90016 t. 310 656 3180

UCLA OSTIN MUSIC BUILDINGLocation Los Angeles, CA

Project type Academic

Area 20,000 SF

Completion December 2014

Recognition AIA/LA Next Award 2015 Westside Urban Forum Award

3617 W Exposition Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90016 t. 310 656 3180

The new Evelyn and Mo Ostin Music Center at UCLA provides a pioneering new home for UCLA’s outstanding Music, Ethnomusicology, and Musicology departments, where music is created, shared, and studied in digitally integrated, professional-quality facilities. Two pavilions, one a state-of-the-art recording studio and the other an ensemble performance rooms, are attached to the existing Herb Alpert School of Music. The ensemble rehearsal space with café at ground level and faculty offices and teaching studios above faces the landmark Inverted Fountain. The second pavilion is a commercial quality recording studio featuring a live room large enough for film scoring with a string orchestra.

BI(H)OME

3617 W Exposition Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90016 t. 310 656 3180

Location Los Angeles, CA

Project type Prototype Accessory Dwelling

Area 450 SF

Completion June 2015

Recognition

2016 Westside Urban Forum Award 2015 Fast Company Innovation by Design

The Backyard BI(h)OME is an ultra-modern, lightweight accessory dwelling unit that has the potential to meet Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti’s call for 100,000 new housing units by 2021. The BI(h)OME demonstrates — in its design, fabrication, occupation, and recycling, what sustainability means at a personal level. The BI(h)OME was initiated by UCLA’s CityLAB and designed by Kevin Daly Architects.

BERKELEYGLOBAL CAMPUS

3617 W Exposition Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90016 t. 310 656 3180

The master plan is for a satellite campus to support the next century global research initiatives and public private partnerships anticipated by a large California university and nearby national laboratory. The campus is developed on a historic field station operated by the University and is set in a restored wetlands and grassland at the edge of the San Francisco Bay.

Location Richmond, CA

Project type Academic & Public Realm

Area 5.4 MILLION SF

Completion Fall 2015

Recognition AIA/LA Next LA

BROADWAYHOUSING

3617 W Exposition Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90016 t. 310 656 3180

Location Santa Monica, CA

Project type Housing

Area 33 - 2 and 3 bedroom units

Completion 2012

Recognition 2015 AIA National Honor Award 2014 Westside Urban Forum Award 2013 AIA/CC Design Award 2013 AIA Social Impact Design Award 2013 American Architecture Award

The objective of Broadway Housing is to provide low income families that work on the Westside of Los Angeles with affordable housing that is both environmentally and economically sustainable. The design clusters economical, repeatable housing blocks around the canopy of an existing shade tree.

VENICERESIDENCE

3617 W Exposition Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90016 t. 310 656 3180

The on-site two-bedroom rear main house and front pied-a-terre above the garage (a reversal of the more common relationship between main and guest house found in this neighborhood) was a dated 1980s remodel in an American Southwestern style.

Location Venice, CA

Project type Residences

Area 2,000 SF

Completion 2010

Recognition 2011 AIA/CC Design Award 2011 AIA/LA Design Award 2007 AIA/LA Next LA

BMW DESIGN- WORKS USA

3617 W Exposition Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90016 t. 310 656 3180

BMW Group DesignworksUSA is a global design consultancy with both an automotive and product design studio, enabling the transfer of knowledge and inspiration between various design disciplines. BMW Group DesignworksUSA has brand communications, strategy, research, design development, engineering, modeling, and color and materials expertise with studios in Los Angeles, Munich, and Singapore. They are hired to design anything from a roadster, a cell phone, an airplane interior, a vacuum cleaner, to a smart watch. Their process entails a balance between an analog method of using pen and paper to fully realized digital modeling.

Location Newbury Park, CA

Project type Interiors & Installations

Area 20,000 SF