California Living: AIA Los Angeles selects 23 Residential Architecture Award winners

From small single-family residences to large multi-unit dwellings, from affordable housing apartment buildings to posh SoCal mansions: the third Residential Architecture Award program presented by the AIA Los Angeles chapter has honored twenty-three new projects at various scales. Three Honor awards for exceptional residential design achievement were given to homes by Ehrlich Yanai Rhee Chaney Architects, Belzberg Architects, and ShubinDonaldson.

The award jury was comprised of Jenna Chandler, Editor, Curbed LA; Mike Deasy, Chief Executive Officer, deasy/penner; and Alice Kimm, FAIA, Co-Founder, John Friedman Alice Kimm Architects (JFAK).

Read on for the complete list of selected projects and images of the nine Honor and Merit Award-winning homes.

Single-Family Residential (up to 2,500 square feet)

Citation

Saddle Peak Residence (Topanga, CA) — Sant Architects

Tilt-Shift House (Los Angeles, CA) — ANX / Aaron Neubert Architects

Single-Family Residential (up to 5,00 square feet)

Merit

Callow Residence  (Altadena, CA) — Corsini Stark Architects

Birch Residence (Los Angeles, CA) — Griffin Enright Architects

Citation

Venice House (Venice, CA) — Rios Clementi Hale Studios

Croft Residence (Los Angeles, CA) — AUX Architecture, Brian Wickersham, AIA

Y Chalet (Faraya, Lebanon) — PARALX

Single-Family Residential (5,00 square feet and up)

Honor

Waverley (Palo Alto, CA) — Ehrlich Yanai Rhee Chaney Architects

Bridge Residence (Los Angeles, CA) — Belzberg Architects

Citation

Brise Soleil (Beverly Hills, CA) — Studio William Hefner

Barrington Residence (Los Angeles, CA) — Eric Rosen Architects

Multi-Family Residential (up to 20 units)

Citation

Bluplex (Culver City, CA) — Yu2e

Multi-Family Residential (20 units and up)

Citation

Otis College of Art and Design Campus Expansion (Los Angeles, CA) — Ehrlich | Fisher

UCSB San Joaquin Housing (Santa Barbara, CA) — Kevin Daly Architects

UCSB San Joaquin Student Housing (Santa Barbara, CA) — Lorcan O'Herlihy Architects

Adaptive Reuse | Renovation | Historic Preservation  

Honor 

Mayumi (Culver City, CA) — ShubinDonaldson

Merit  

Harvey House (Palm Springs, CA) — Marmol Radziner (original design: Buff & Hensman)

Three Schindlers Redux (Inglewood, CA) — Ehrlich Yanai Rhee Chaney Architects (original design: Rudolf Schindler)

Silvertop (Los Angeles, CA) — Bestor Architecture  (original design: John Lautner)

Citation  

Garden House (Atwater Village, CA) — Design, Bitches

The Salkin House (Los Angeles, CA) — Bestor Architecture (original design: John Lautner)

Writer's Block (Arts District, Downtown Los Angeles, CA) — CHACOL, Inc.

Affordable Housing

Merit   

Anchor Place (Long Beach, CA) — The Architects Collective

Check out also the photo gallery below to see the fourteen winners of a Citation Award.