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DSH // architecture is a practice founded on the belief that design makes a difference. Our portfolio of award-winning residential and educational projects includes tactile, light-infused and materially rich environments along with skillful transformations that foreground architecture's responsibility to urban communities.
DSH employs a research-focused, people-oriented design process that blends empathy and logic into a single thread of creative thinking. From concept to execution, we engage clients, understand their mission, and use our deep ability, experience and judgment to execute an elegant, beautiful, meaningful and affirming solution.
Through a thoughtful and investigative process, DSH creates work known for its creative use of color, light and materials, as well as its congruent design of site and landscape, all with an appreciation of the broader urban context and issues unearthed in the consideration of history.
2026
AIA California Residential Design Award
Citation Award, rhomboid retreat
Residential Architect Design Award
Citation Award, rhomboid retreat
SARA National Design Honor Award
Design Award, rhomboid retreat
California Preservation Foundation Preservation Design Award
Larchmont Charter @ Lafayette Park
2025
AIA Los Angeles Residential Architecture Award
Merit Award, rhomboid retreat
2024
Merit Award, Watts Community Hub
SARA California Council Design Award
Design Honor Award, g-h studio
Association of Licensed Architects Design Award
Award of Merit, Larchmont Charter @ Lafayette Park
2023
Semi-finalist, Fallen Journalists Memorial Design Competition
Fallen Journalists Memorial Foundation
2021
Finalist, Chicago Prize Design Competition
There's Something for Everyone! - Proposal for the reuse of Helmut Jahn's James R. Thompson Center
Los Angeles Conservancy Preservation Award
Larchmont Charter @ Lafayette Park, adaptive reuse of Welton Becket's NY Life building
2020
Educational Interiors Showcase, American School & University
Outstanding Design Award, Pre‐K / Early Childhood Education
Vine Street Early Head Start
Eric Haas elevated to Fellow of the American Institute of Architects
2019
Fast Company Innovation by Design
Social Good Category, Honorable Mention
Vine Street Early Head Start
2018
Architect's Newspaper Best of Design Winner
Children's Institute Long Beach Hub - Interiors, Unbuilt
Los Angeles Business Council Architectural Award
Para Los Niños Sixth Street Projects
2017
Re-Thinking The Future Award – Residence (Concept)
G-H Studio
Docomomo US Residential Design Award of Excellence
Bubeshko Apartments
Westside Urban Forum Westside Prize, Public/Institutional Citation
Para Los Niños Sixth Street Projects
Architizer A+Awards finalist: Architecture + 3D printing
Spiral Kitty
2016
2016 USC Mentoring Award
given by USC's Center for Excellence in Teaching: Eric Haas
2014
Spark>Spaces Design finalist
Larchmont Charter at Lafayette Park
Re-Thinking The Future: Honorable Mention - Interior Design Commercial - Built
Para Los Niños Family Center
Re-Thinking The Future: Honorable Mention - Residential Concept
Villa Tangente
2013
Spark>Spaces Design: Finalist
Para Los Niños Family Center
Modular Building Institute Award of Distinction: Education
St. James' Preschool, first place
2011
California Preservation Foundation Preservation Design Award
Bubeshko apartments rehabilitation
2010
AIA California Council Merit Award for Architecture
Bubeshko apartments rehabilitation
California Governor’s Preservation Award
Bubeshko apartments rehabilitation
Los Angeles Business Council Architectural Award
Bubeshko apartments rehabilitation
Los Angeles Conservancy Preservation Award
Bubeshko apartments rehabilitation
Residential Architect Design Awards
Restoration/Preservation Merit Award
Bubeshko Apartments rehabilitation
2009
AIA Los Angeles Design Honor Award
rehabilitation of R.M. Schindler’s Bubeshko Apartments
1996
San Francisco Prize - 2nd Place
Phillip Burton Federal Building Plaza design competition co-sponsored by SFMOMA and GSA
2024
“Hundreds of children live on Skid Row. Can L.A. do more for them?” on Para Los Niños
2021
“Renovation Realities: New Life for Life Insurance Building,” by Mike Kennedy
Architect's Newspaper
“Winning designs revealed for the Thompson Center Design Ideas Competition,” by Matt Hickman
2020
Educational Interiors Showcase, American School & University
“Outstanding Design Award: Pre‐K / Early Childhood Education.”
Central City Association of Los Angeles Education Task Force
Chava Danielson, advisor for white paper "Expanding Opportunities for Child Care and Schools in DTLA"
2019
Fast Company: Vine Street Early Head Start
“The Year’s Best Design for Social Good.”
2018
An Architectural Guidebook to Los Angeles, Sixth Edition, David Gebhard and Robert Winter
rehabilitation of R.M. Schindler’s Bubeshko Apartments
Podcast: Archinect Interview by Paul Petrunia with Mimi Zeiger, Chava Danielson and Michael Sweeney
on the publication of the LA Forum Reader
Los Angeles Forum for Architecture and Urban Design Newsletter Publication
“#idestroyedthat” in Re:Learning, Summer 2018
From the Archives of the Los Angeles Forum for Architecture and Urban Design
ACTAR Publishers. Chava Danielson, co-editor
2016
Mid-Century Modern Architecture Travel Guide,
Sam Lubell; Phaidon
rehabilitation of R.M. Schindler’s Bubeshko Apartments
Fast Company, Dezeen, Inhabit, The Architect's Newspaper
Spiral Kitty
Nanotecture: Tiny Built Things,
Rebecca Roke, ed. Phaidon, 2016
Cat's Cradle
2015
National Trust for Historic Preservation: Larchmont Charter at Lafayette Park
“L.A.'s Larchmont Charter High School: A Lesson in Adaptive Reuse and Urbanism,” by David Weible
Dwell Magazine: Larchmont Charter at Lafayette Park
“Secondary Education,” Kelly Vencill Sanchez on adaptive reuse
2014
"Cat's Cradle": Architects for Animals
14 Amazing Cat Shelters Designed by Los Angeles Architects
Larchmont Charter at Lafayette Park: Welton Becket headquarters building transformed into school
OMAG: OTIS College of Art and Design Magazine, Vol. 15
Architecture/Landscape/Interiors Faculty Projects
Rudolph Schindler's Only Church is Resurrected
2013
Culture Now: "Art, Architecture and History in the Public Realm"
Bubeshko Apartments
Fresh DIRTT (Do It Right This Time): "Agile Architectural Solutions"
Nonprofit category, Issue 227 : Para Los Niños Family Center
2012
Dwell Magazine: Bubeshko Apartments
“Self Preservation,” Alissa Walker on the rehabilitation of the R.M. Schindler buildings
Zocalo Public Square: "Is Downtown Finally Looking Up?"
Chava Danielson, "Bigger Vision . . ."
2011
Los Angeles Times, Pro Portfolio: Nylon Habitat
“A Hollywood Hills Remodel that Glows with Light, Color”
2010
Residential Architect
2010 Residential Architect Design Awards; May/June
Los Angeles Times: “The People’s Courts”
Home Section, Mary MacVean on projects honored by the Los Angeles Conservancy
Form Magazine
AIA Los Angeles Design Awards; January/February
2009
Interior Design online
AIA/LA Presents 2009 Design Awards
2008
Key Urban Housing of the Twentieth Century, Hilary French; W.W. Norton & Co.
Rehabilitation of R.M. Schindler’s Bubeshko Apartments
Urban Transformation, Enterprise Community Partners
Los Angeles Small Lot Subdivision Design Competition; Winning entries, Finalists and Selected Submissions
Omage08: The Artists, Designers and Writers of Otis
Exhibit at Track 16 Gallery, Bergamot Station, Santa Monica, CA
2004
The Home House Project: The Future of Affordable Housing,
MIT Press, David J. Brown, ed.
Projects from Southeast Center for Contemporary Art competition
1997
Competitions Magazine
Winning entries, San Francisco Prize Competition for the Phillip Burton Federal Building plaza,
San Francisco, CA
1995
Housing Summit ’95: "Design and the Art of Housing”
Chava Danielson, correspondent, national AIA conference
1994-7
Los Angeles Forum for Architecture and Urban Design
Chava Danielson, newsletter editor articles: “Art & Architecture: A Discussion”;
“Binary Formations”; “Returning to LA”
1993
Studio Works, Harvard University Graduate School of Design
Eric Haas, “Insulation and Fluidity” GSD Thesis project
2023
Say it Loud - Beyond the Built Environment - AIA California Council
California Exhibitor, Great Designers Library2021
Thompson Center Ideas Competition - Chicago Architecture Center
"There's Something for Everyone!"
2016
Efflorescence Cognitionum, USC Microlibrary
Created with USC librarians Melissa Miller and Marje Schuetze-Coburns
Architects for Animals
Spiral Kitty
2014
Architect for Animals
Cat's Cradle
2011
Little Tokyo Design Week: 2636 Residence
“Tokyo/LA Houses”
2010
13.3%: Drawings from NATV@Lindblade
“13.3% is an exasperated response to those who say there are no women making architecture.”
Woodbury University Wuho Gallery
2009
The Best of the Now and the Next
AIA Los Angeles 2009 Design Awards Winners Exhibit
2006
Small Lots, Smart Designs
Enterprise Forum Network Conference, exhibit of competition finalists
Omage: The Artists, Designers and Writers of Otis
Exhibit at Track 16 Gallery, Bergamot Station, Santa Monica, CA
2003
SECCA Home House Competition Traveling Exhibit
Selected competition entries at Southeast Center for Contemporary Art, Winston-Salem, NC;
Cooper Union, NYC and other locations.
1996
San Francisco Prize Winners Exhibit
San Francisco Planning & Urban Research Association (SPUR), San Francisco, CA
The Perfect Chair for Barbie
Exhibit of selected competition entries, Vitra Design Museum - Weil am Rhein, Germany
2024
AIA-LA Design Technology Conference
Chava Danielson, opening remarks
2023
Roundtable: State of the State of Housing
Chava Danielson, moderator, "New Initiatives for Housing Development and How to Use Them"2021
California Preservation Conference: “Radical Conservation: Leading from the Left Coast”
Eric Haas, speaker, Relevance Roundtable: Health
USC School of Architecture Symposium: “Designing for Social Justice”
Eric Haas, presentation, “Places of Promise”
2020
Eric Haas, paper presentation, “Put Your Sweater On! A Case for Low Performance"
2018
MAK Center event
2016
Lecture at Wilshire Ebell
Chava Danielson
AD&A Museum at the University of California Santa Barbara
2015
Modern Snapshots from the Field: “Larchmont Charter at Lafayette Park”
Chava Danielson, for the Getty Conservation Institute’s Conserving Modern Architecture Initiative
MFA Residency in Graphic Design, “How the City Works”
Chava Danielson at Design Week 2015 - I Am the City, OTIS College of Art and Design
Society of Architectural Historians
Bubeshko Apartments
Dwell on Design, “Historic Preservation and Adaptive Reuse”
Chava Danielson and Eric Haas on Larchmont Charter at Lafayette Park
2014
AICAD Conference at Columbus
Chava Danielson
From the Field: Conserving Southern California’s Modern Architecture: “Syntax and Sensation”
Eric Haas, for the Getty Conservation Institute’s Conserving Modern Architecture Initiative
The Mediated City - Los Angeles
Eric Haas, paper presentation, "Do We Have to Stick to the Script? Cities, Surveys and Descripting"
AIA National Convention - 2014, Chicago
Presentation: 'Design Advocacy and Leadership'
2013
John Liechty Middle School Career Day
Eric Haas, Communities in Schools of Los Angeles mentor
Cosponsor, USC Solar Decathlon
2013 entry, "Flux Home"
Friends of San Diego Architecture: "Syntax and Sensation"
Eric Haas, at the New School of Architecture, San Diego
Political Outreach Committee, AIA/LA
Chava Danielson, Chair
2012
AIA/LA Modernist/Contemporary Tour 3
Bubeshko Apartments
Getty Conservation Institute – Conserving Modern Architecture Initiative
Advisory panel
Top Fuel 2012: Funnels Design-Build Workshop, USC
Eric Haas, curator and coordinator of week-long practicum, featuring Achim Menges
Dwell on Design, “Renovating an Icon”
Eric Haas on working with historic modern architecture
LACMA Evening for Educators, “Configure: Geometry, Architecture, Design”
Chava Danielson on Mathematics, Architecture and Art
CELA conference: "Urban Nature"
Eric Haas, paper presentation, "Metes and Bounds, on Surveying"
Top Fuel 2011: Filters Design-Build Workshop, USC
Eric Haas, co-organizer of week-long practicum, featuring Frank Barkow and Thomas Auer
2010
“Habitation: On the Map, the Bubeshko Apartments”
Los Angeles Forum for Architecture and Urban Design event and tour
Mobius LA: “Massive Media: Architecture and Communication in Downtown LA”
Eric Haas, with John Chase, David Sloane and Tom Marble
K-Talk/AEC Knowledge
"Color – A Building Material," Eric Haas, online presentation
2007
“Out There Doing It” – DSH Recent Work
Los Angeles Forum for Architecture and Urban Design lecture series
2004
Otis College of Art & Design – DSH Recent Work
Department of Architecture/Landscape/Interiors
2002
AICAD Conference
Chava Danielson: “Elastic Edges,” on the subject of multidisciplinary education,
at the Association of International Colleges of Art and Design annual conference
1999
“Out There Doing It” – DSH Recent Work
Los Angeles Forum for Architecture and Urban Design lecture series
Woodbury University – DSH Recent Work
Department of Interior Architecture