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.