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

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.