SHOUTS & MURMERS

Dutton Architects designs a major renovation for a custom modern house in the Tustin Hills.

Dutton Architects designs modern mountain-top residence in Mount Washington with scenic views overlooking mountains and the Los Angeles Basin.

Dutton Architects is designing a 9,000 sf house on Mulholland Drive that opens to the valley on one side and downtown LA on the other.

John Dutton publishes an article in the journal My Livable Cities on architects role in creating green, sustainable, and livable cities.

John Dutton authors and article on Otto Wagner’s celebrated Postparkasse in Vienna, reviewing it as a building that mediates between modern and traditional, architecture and urbanism

Dutton Architects hill modern top house almost completes construction.

Dutton publishes an article in the book Streets for All on the innovative public space design of the streets of Barcelona.

Large artist loft is being designed for art collectors in Los Angeles’ downtown Arts District

New riverfront house sits within the levee of the Sacramento River, opening up to vistas to the river and agricultural fields beyond

The headquarters for a new boutique intellectual property law firm in Silicon Valley is being designed by Dutton Architects.

Dutton Architects is renovating a brick and concrete warehouse in Los Angeles into 18 units of artists lofts. The interventions are intended to be minimal, maintaining and respecting much of the original industrial qualities of the building.

A new modern hillside house in Malibu, set into a series of terraces, with views up and down the Malibu coast.

Dutton Architects moved into the Elysian, a restored building originally designed by William Perreira for the Metropolitan Water District.

At the 2017 CNU in Seattle, John Dutton lectured on Barcelona Modernisme and Architectural Character.

The panel focused on the idea of character, as opposed to style or typology, two better-known terms these days. Character implies the notion of architectural judgment, as articulated in Samir Younes’ “The Imperfect City: On Architectural Judgment.”

Dutton Architects is creating a new two-story addition to a modern house in Brentwood and renovating the rest of the house.  The addition accommodates two home offices for the couple, both TV/film writers, three bedrooms, a kitchen, a family room, and other support spaces.

A new house for the celebrated artist Mr. Brainwash is under design by Dutton Architects. The house is very open, and fluid, with very tall ceilings on both floors and some double height spaces. As befitting an artist, lots of light, especially through a central circulation atrium space that divides the front and the back. The volumes of the house are a collage of materials: corrugated steel, concrete, wood, and large Neolith panels. Accents of wood warm the space, and furniture-like elements help bring the scale down.

Dutton Architects recently completed a major renovation of a 1960’s post and beam house in the hills of Beverly Hills.

John Dutton, and Barbara Bestor (of Bestor Architecture), won a Next LA award from the American Institute of Architects (A.I.A.) for their collaboration on their new senior housing prototype for the emerging baby-boom generation that is healthier, more social, active, and urban than previous generations.

Dutton Architects has completed a design for a guest pavilion and meditation  room on a spectacular site on top of Micheltorena Avenue in the Silver Lake neighborhood of Los Angeles.

John Dutton taught in Japan for USC’s AALU (Asian Architecture and Landscape Urbanism) program his fall, where he brought students to Kyoto, Kanagawa, Takyama, and Tokyo.  They analyzed the architecture and urbanism of these cities, and visited internationally renown design studios such as SANAA.

John Dutton and Barbara Bestor presented their Grey Gardens concept for senior housing at Dwell On Design 2015.  They discussed the history and evolution of California modern housing, and presented their project as an urban alternative for baby boomers instead of the warehouses of elderly in the desert.

John Dutton presented his award-winning proposal for the transformation of Los Angeles freeways into a new network of Greenways.  In place of the ribbons of freeway concrete will be transit, bike lanes, recreational parks, community gardens, multi-modal stations, and vertical gardens.

This spring, John Dutton taught a combined architecture and landscape studio at USC focusing on Eminonu waterfront in the historic center of Istanbul.

Dutton Architects submitted an entry for the international competition to design the new headquarters of the World Health Organization.

For more information see the WHO project page.

Below are the most recent images of the Instagram feed for Dutton Architects. The images represent some visual observations of Los Angeles and other areas I’ve travelled to. For the full grid of past images please go to #duttonarchitects.