Chava Danielson
Principal
Adjunct Professor
USC School of
Architecture
M.Arch.
Harvard University
BA, UC Berkeley
Chava Danielson, AIA, is Principal of DSH // architecture with specialties in design, project advocacy, and serving non-profit organizations. She focuses on imparting beauty and sensitive programming to recharge underserved neighborhoods through educational, therapeutic and residential projects.
Danielson leads DSH's civic and child-centered work, including early education centers in which alternatives to conventional practices are employed to spark curiosity and wonder in the minds of young children. Larchmont Charter High School at Lafayette Park, an inventive adaptive reuse of the former New York Life Insurance headquarters, catalyzed the neighborhood’s revitalization and continues DSH's forward-looking approach to historic preservation.
Danielson is Adjunct Professor at the USC School of Architecture, and currently serves on the Board of Directors of the AIA Los Angeles. She has taught design studios and urban history at the Otis College of Art + Design. Chava has served as a Director for the Los Angeles Forum for Architecture and Urban Design and as a founding board member of Larchmont Charter School. She holds an M.Arch. from the Graduate School of Design at Harvard University and a B.A. in Comparative Literature from the University of California, Berkeley.