The Los Angeles Design Group, LLC (The LADG) is a firm specializing in contemporary design at all scales. We have particular expertise in a materialist approach to design problems, exploiting the properties of pragmatic building materials to create environments and objects that are tailored to generate a specific sensory experience. Often, this approach utilizes advanced digital modeling software and machine fabrication to drive down costs and allow the emergence of rich textures, complex form, and refined detailing at the scale of human interaction. This narrow focus has produced a diverse array of executed projects, including multi-family residential buildings, retail interiors, tenant improvement packages, single-family residential buildings, interior renovations, graphic design and industrial design. Established in 2004, the firm has completed projects in California, Hawaii, Oregon, Colorado, New York and the UK.
We are a business committed to buildable, pragmatic architecture with the aid of a professional staff and sustainable balance sheet. We are also a design collective committed to advancing the state of architectural discourse through research, provocation, and novelty.
Our built work depends directly on our speculative, research-based projects. Speculative work is the laboratory which allows us to discover new solutions to design problems that can later be selectively borrowed and applied to commercial projects. The relationship between the two is analogous the relationship between concept cars and mass-production vehicles. The more radical design proposals of our speculative work inform our built work as innovations in structure, materials, form, program, and aesthetics. Our clients take advantage of forward-thinking design strategies without incurring the risks of experimentation. Our goal is not to produce innovation for its own sake, but to relentlessly question the fundamental assumptions of design and construction in order to find a solution that satisfies the specific demands of each project.