Kelly Locke is an independently-directed architect and project consultant based in Santa Monica, CA. His predilections towards design are innate; he has spent his entire life pursuing passions directed towards the built environment. Following fruitful early forays into construction using only locally-available refuse materials, Kelly has repeatedly sought out projects that allow him to oversee and integrate all aspects of a structure’s creation. His encompassing grasp on the vicissitudes of planning, design, and construction has afforded him a perspective on architecture that takes into account the interdependency of each element, a kind of foresight and ability-to-contextualize that can come only from diligent and impassioned efforts to maintain a unified view of the process. Bringing this expertise to bear on the design aesthetics of residential communities, Kelly has created structures that appear to bridge seemingly inaccessible gaps between form and function, attempting to instill in the architectural community a sense of the untenability of choosing one of the terms of this divide over the other.
In addition to the hospitals, educational facilities, and institutional centers that constitute the core of his firm-employed successes, he has consistently partaken in the design and construction of residential structures as an independent architect. Having approached each personal project from the perspective of owner, project planner, designer, and construction coordinator, Kelly Locke has become well acquainted with the complications and potentialities of small-scale projects, the architectural services offered to his clients thus capable of encompassing broader consulting duties as well. You can read more about the scope of his offered services here.
Kelly received his Master’s of Architecture from the Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI-ARC) and his Bachelor’s from the University of California, Berkeley. His combined years of experience working for established architectural giants in the world of institutional construction—his countless hours spent with such firms as Anshen & Allen, Gensler, CO Architects, and Cannon Design—span the course of three decades