Harmon Guest House, a sustainable 39-room boutique hotel designed by David Baker Architects in Healdsburg, California. Photo by Bruce Damonte.As Matt Hickman wrote this May in The Architect’s Newspaper, “David Baker Architects (DBA), a San Francisco architecture firm whose solution-oriented work zeroes in on some of contemporary society’s most pressing issues, has received the 2020 California Firm Award. The award, which will join the firm’s already crowded trophy chest, is among the highest annual recognitions bestowed by the American Institute of Architects, California (AIA CA). With recent recipients including Johnson Fain (2018) and HOK (2019), the award recognizes firms 10 years or older which have consistently produced work that has helped better the lives of Californians and those beyond via the built environment.” Read more . . .
Cover shows Tassafaronga Village affordable housing, Oakland, California, 2010, a winner of the AIA National COTE Top Ten Award. Photo by Matthew Millman.
From arcCA DIGEST Season 06, “Materials.”
