What people are saying.
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“... The work Dan Brunn has done in the architectural field, of evolving how one perceives the spaces we live in, negotiate, and move through, proves he’s a leading mind.” -
Holger Hampf, President, BMW Designworks
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“Dan Brunn is, as vigorous as ever... He’s careful to square that ambitious mindset with meaningful service to people. As Brunn’s practice matured, clients encouraged his intuition- first approach with more enthusiasm. Brunn responded with characteristic gusto—and with a greater sense of nuance.”
LA LA Magazine David Sokol, Editor
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“One can draw a straight line from Craig Ellwood or Pierre Koenig to Brunn’s Flip Flop House. Demonstrating that he can sprinkle intellectual bravura with playful touches....”
Architectural Digest David Sokol, Contributor
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“Innovation in technology and sustainability are re-imagining every aspect of our lives, but the revolution has largely left the American home behind... until now. The city has also inspired some of the world’s most important residential architecture and with its bold aesthetics, new technologies and commitment to sustainability, Bridge House continues that heritage.”
WHERE Guestbook Roger Grody, Editor-in-Chief
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“His recent projects, call to mind the distinctness of a Frank Lloyd Wright or Mies van der Rohe home. Like Wright’s cantilevered Fallingwater, or Mies’ glass-on-stilts Farnsworth House, Brunn’s stylish and contemporary Flip Flop and Fold Up houses have a shape, flow, and design that’s both visually arresting and not easily forgotten.”
Ocean Home Magazine David Eisen, Editor
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“Dan Brunn’s Pared-Down Yet Playful Sensibilities Shine ...
Interior Design Magazine Edie Cohen, Editor
WORLDWIDE PRESS and AWARDS
INTERNATIONAL AWARDS
Holcim Sustainable Awards: Global Prize Dan Brunn Architecture (2009)
RED Dot Design Award: Germany Caesarstone Showroom (2008)
RIBA: Restaurant and Bar Design Awards: England Yojisan Sushi (2012)
BUILD: Architecture Awards: England Most Innovative Residential Design Zig Zag House (2016)
REGIONAL DESIGN AWARDS
LOS ANGELES BUSINESS COUNCIL
2018 Architectural Award RTA
2017 Architectural Award Hide Out House
2015 Architectural Award Flip Flop House
2014 Architectural Award Yojisan Sushi
2002 Architectural Award LADC
WINDSOR SQUARE-HANCOCK PARK HISTORICAL SOCIETY
2022 Landmark Awards Bridge House
WESTSIDE URBAN FORUM
2017 Design Awards RTA
2003 Design Awards Los Angeles Design Center
PROFESSIONAL RECOGNITION and ACCOLADES
2020 Interior Design Magazine Best of Year Architect Honoree
2020 USC Generation Next
2018 Surface Magazine The List
2018 California Home and Design Emerging Designer
2018 Interior Design Magazine 40@Forty
2017 Build News Architecture Top 50
2015 Ocean Home Magazine Top 50 Coastal Architects
2015 Interior Design Magazine Residential Leaders 100
2015 Build Direct 14 Best Architects in Los Angeles
2015 Architectural Digest 10 Firms to Watch, Rising Stars
AIA AWARDS
NATIONAL
2004 Honor Award for Architecture LADC
CALIFORNIA
2005 California Council Merit Award LADC
NEVADA
2021 Design Merit Award RTA Las Vegas
LOS ANGELES
2020 Residential Citation Award Bridge House
2018 Design Award Coffee For Sasquatch
2017 Residential Honor Award Hide Out House
2017 Design Merit Award RTA LA
2006 Decade Award LADC
2004 Design Honor Award LADC
NATIONAL AWARDS
CHICAGO ATHENAEUM:AMERICAN ARCHITECTURE AWARD
2017 Best of Year Award Hide Out House
2004 Best of Year Award LADC
ARCHITECTURAL RECORD
2014 House of the Month Flip Flop House
INTERIOR DESIGN MAGAZINE
2022 Best of Year Honoree Award RTA New York
2017 Best of Year Award RTA Los Angeles
2017 Best of Year Honoree Award Coffee For Sasquatch
2013 Best of Year Honoree Award Flip Flop House
2013 Best of Year Honoree Award Flip Flop House
2012 Best of Year Award Yojisan Sushi
2007 Best of Year Merit Award Caesarstone USA Showroom
ARCHITIZER A+
2017 Popular Choice Award Hide Out House
SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA DEVELOPMENT FORUM
2012 Design Award Yojisan Sushi
VISUAL MERCH. and STORE DESIGN MAGAZINE
2017 Retail Renovation of the Year RTA
2017 Retail Renovation of the Year Coffee for Sasquatch
SIGNIFICANT PUBLICATIONS - BOOKS
Contemporary Interiors
Publisher Flexform
Country Italy
Date 2021
Project Hide Out
The American House: 100 Contemporary Homes
Publisher Images Publishing
Country Australia
Date 2017
Project Hide Out House
Restaurant & Bar Design
Publisher Taschen
Country Germany
Date 2014
Project Yojisan Sushi
DreamWork Space: Residential Design
Publisher Designerbooks
Country China
Date 2011
Project Fold Up House
Modern Lux Housing
Publisher Sandu Cultural Media
Country Singapore
Date 2012
Project Hayvenhurst House
Interior Design: Decade of Design
Publisher Sandow
Country United States
Date 2016
Project Yojisan Sushi
A+ Architecture: The Best of Architecture 2017
Publisher Phaidon
Country United Kingdom
Date 2017
Project Hide Out House
Artists Homes
Publisher Images Publishing
Country Australia
Date 2021
Project Hide Out House
Architects at Home
Publisher Images Publishing
Country Australia
Date 2023
Project Bridge House
X PACE - Public Space
Publisher Rihan
Country Hong Kong
Date 2010
Project Caesarstone USA
SIGNIFICANT PUBLICATIONS - JOURNALS
GRID
Country Germany
Date 2014
Project Yojisan Sushi
VISUAL MERCHANDISE and STORE DESIGN
Country USA
Date 2017
Project RTA Los Angeles
COMMERCIAL ARCHITECTURE
Country USA
Date 2018
Project Coffee for Sasquatch LA
I + D
Country USA
Date 2019
Project Coffee for Sasquatch LA
HAUSER
Country Germany and Austria
Date 2020
Project Bridge House
SIGNIFICANT PUBLICATIONS - PRINT
#9 DREAM
Hypebeast; “#9 Dream: An Architect’s Guide to Interior Design” (August 2014)
Los Angeles Times; “Home of the Times: Transforming the traditional” (January 28, 2017)
BRIDGE HOUSE
Angeleno; “Building Bridges” (January 7, 2020)
Dwell; “Greetings From Bridge House” (March/April 2017)
Dwell On Design; “The Bridge House” (February 2018)
I + D Magazine; “Residential Revolution” (June 5, 2020)
Los Angeles Times; “He Built his 20-foot wide house over a secret brook in the middle of LA” (January 21, 2020)
COFFEE FOR SASQUATCH
Commercial Architecture; “Cutting Edge Restaurants” (April 2018)
I+D Magazine; “Design Thinking” (February 7, 2019)
Interior Design; “Best of the Year” (December 1, 2017)
FLIP FLOP
Architectural Record; “Perspective: House of the Month” (September 2014)
Interior Design; “Best of Year Projects: Merit Kitchen/Bath Award” (December 2013)
Los Angeles Magazine; “The Long View” (October 2015)
The New York Times; “On Location/Los Angeles: Bauhaus on the Beach” (September 5, 2013)
HIDE OUT
Abitare #572 “Casa, studio e galleria” - “House, Studio and Gallery”, Italy; (March 2018)
Interior Design; “Editor’s Welcome” (August 2017)
Interior Design Homes; “Residential Leaders” (Fall 2015)
The Hollywood Reporter; “L.A.’s Moat Moment” (November 1, 2013)
Architectural Record; “Perspective: House of the Month” (September 2014)
Wallpaper*; “New balance: painter James Jean blends life and work in a renovated 1970s Frank Gehry home” (May 2017)
Architectural Digest; “Step into the whimsical world of artist James Jean” (September 15, 2022)
RTA Los Angeles
Interior Design; “Road To Success” (April 2017)
Interior Design; “Best of the Year” (December 1, 2017)
YOJISAN
Grid “Zu Gast Im Traumwald” (“A Guest in the Dream Forest”) (Germany); (February 2014)
FIRM PROFILE
California Home + Design; “Emerging Designer” (Spring 2018)
Chicago Tribune; “Low profile, high style” profile Dan Brunn Architecture (March 25, 2018)
Flaunt; “To Live, To Fight, To Dine, To Die” (Fall 2013)
Interior Design; “Headliner’s: Dan Brunn Architecture”(August 2017)
Interior Design; “40@ Forty: Lingua Franca” (November 2017)
Ocean Home; “Out of the Box” (October/November 2013)
Ocean Home; “Ocean Home 50: Our Top Coastal Architects of 2015” (October / November 2015)
SIGNIFICANT PUBLICATIONS - ONLINE
#9 DREAM
WSJ.com “The Secretly Stylish Interiors of Undercover Luxury Homes” (August 30, 2018)
FLIP FLOP
ArchDaily.com “Flip Flop House” (December 11, 2013)
FICKETT
ArchitecturalDigest.com “A Music Industry Insider’s Midcentury Los Angeles Home” (March 28, 2018)
BRIDGE HOUSE
ArchDaily.com “Bridge House LA” (January 6, 2020)
Archinect.com “Dan Brunn redefines net zero housing with a California mid-century modern flare” (October 19, 2018)
SurfaceMag.com “Project Spotlight: Bridge House, Dan Brunn Architecture” (October 15, 2018)
RobbReport.com “A River Runs through it: Homes Built over Streams and Waterways” (December 18, 2018)
KCRW.com “Modernist homes, Hollywood veterans” (September 4, 2018)
ElleDecor.com “The Home of The Future Floats Over Water” (April 21, 2020)
POSITIVELY NEGATIVE
ArchDaily.com “Positively Negative” (May 10, 2021)
Wallpaper.com “Venice Beach house bridges pragmatism and minimalism” (May 13, 2021)
Design-Milk.com “The Minimalist Positively Negative Residence by DBA Architecture” May (6, 2021)
HIDE OUT
ArchDaily.com “Hide Out” (June 8, 2017)
Dezeen.com “Dezeen Awards interiors longlist revealed” (July 26, 2018)
SurfaceMag.com “7 Serene Spaces We Could Spend All Summer In” (August 1, 2018)
Hypebeast.com “‘Hide Out’: A Look Inside Artist James Jean’s Live-Work Space in LA” (May 24, 2017)
DesignBoom.com “Dan Brunn Overhauls Frank Gehry-Designed Los Angeles Home for Visual Artist” (June 2, 2017)
Dezeen.com “Dan Brunn renovates Frank Gehry-designed LA house for an illustrator” (June 15, 2017)
RTA
Dezeen.com “Dan Brunn plants olive tree in centre of RTA Melrose boutique in Los Angeles” (June 18, 2017)
ZIG ZAG
ArchDaily.com “Zig-Zag House” (May 20, 2015)
PROFILE
ArchDaily.com “Discover Los Angeles Architecture Studios Through the Lens of Marc Goodwin” (January 24, 2019)
ArchitecturalDigest.com “Rising Stars” January 5, 2015
CaliforniaHomeDesign.com “2018 CH+D Awards: Emerging Designer, Dan Brunn” (April 24, 2018)
KCRW.com “DnA: Bauhaus, Modernism, Moholy-Nagy and the White City”; DB interview (February 14, 2017)
SurfaceMag.com “Dan Brunn Architecture” (August 1, 2018)
