A practice tempered slowly, in stone and in light.

Buildings worth keeping come from architects who have stood on both sides of the table. Who have drawn a clinic and then operated inside it. Who have stayed long enough to feel a space breathe at six in the morning, and again at midnight, when the schedule rebuilds itself for the n-th time that week.

The training began in Stuttgart. Two years under David Chipperfield’s studio at the Staatliche Akademie taught constraint, and the value of the unspoken line. José Luis Mateo, in Barcelona, taught the section on logic of climate and courtyard, how an opening to the sky changes how a space holds light through the afternoon. Gensler Los Angeles, from 2003 to 2008, taught the craft of getting it built: SD through CA on the AT&T Tower, Design Development and Construction Documents as executive architect on Renzo Piano’s LACMA BCAM, and LEED Silver hospitality at L.A. LIVE, alongside the documentation rigor that European studios assume but never name.

Then the detour. Fifteen years of owning, designing, and operating a high-end Beverly Hills dental practice through every phase of its life. It is one thing to draw a clinic. It is another to operate it for fifteen years, to learn what the owner pays for, what they regret, what they fight with insurance over, and what they rebuild when the lights are still on past ten.

Independent practice has run since 1996, slowed through the dental years, and returned to its primary focus in 2023 with residential and ADU work across the Westside, scan-to-BIM existing-conditions documentation, and a German-language channel for the family-office tier.