Los Angeles based Dutton Architects provides inspiring places to live and work. We create warm and inviting modern architecture at all scales, from custom homes to creative office spaces to multi-family housing and urban infill. We create contextual, sensitive urban design to enable vibrant walkable communities, from specific site planning strategies to neighborhood redevelopment to larger master plans and town planning. John Dutton is a Los Angeles based architect, urban designer, and author. Prior to starting his own firm, he trained in the offices of Pritzker Prize winning architects Morphosis, Renzo Piano, Santiago Calatrava and Richard Meier.
John is equally passionate about designing a house, a place of work, a piece of furniture or a public park. He has a unique background; he trained in world-famous firms (Morphosis, Richard Meier, Renzo Piano, Santiago Calatrava) that produce iconic buildings, but he also has a deep interest and expertise in the design of cities and neighborhoods. This varied background means he knows what it means to live and work on a daily basis in an inspiring and sustainable environment. To this end, his work emphasizes the complementary design of buildings, streets, and open spaces that together form the fabric of the places in which we live and work.
Dutton Architects is committed to creating inspiring urban environments in which to live and work through our deep experience and knowledge of the relationship between buildings and open spaces that make up our urban fabric. Our work challenges the low-density sprawl development of our car-dominated landscape. Rather, we believe in vital, pedestrian-oriented, mixed-use and sustainable neighborhoods to live, work and shop.
Dutton Architects is committed to California modern architecture in the best sense: our houses are designed for contemporary living with comfortable and warm modern designs. Each house is custom-designed for our clients through a close collaborative process with architect John Dutton. We take into account the particulars of each site, and from the beginning envision smart ways of creating a sustainable place to live. We pride ourselves in meticulous designs and details, and will closely follow each project from design through construction, demanding the highest quality build-out by a contractor.