The Los Angeles-based firm established in 2000 by Margaret Griffin, FAIA and John Enright, FAIA, fuses interests in innovation and experimentation with a desire to explore cultural complexities relative to the built environment. Griffin Enright Architects is an award-winning, interdisciplinary Los Angeles firm with institutional, cultural, and residential projects built nationally and abroad. For
almost two decades Griffin Enright has crafted attentive and elegant contemporary architecture for which the office has received more than 50 commendations for design excellence, including the American Architecture Award from the Chicago Athenaeum, and local, state, and national AIA awards, as well as having been extensively published and exhibited nationally and internationally. Established in 2000 by Margaret Griffin, FAIA, and John Enright, FAIA, LEED AP, their experience in the production of innovative form and their thoughtfulness for the complexities of the built environment merge to define a practice both forward-looking and sensitive to possibilities of architectural space. Careful attention to details of assembly and construction, the utilization of local characteristics of environment and light, and the high-level craft of geometry and materials activate Griffin Enright projects as explorations of movement and space. The firm employs a multi-cultural staff with experience in multiple continents and languages, and undertakes projects that range from the design of fixtures and spaces to large scale urban projects. John Enright currently serves on the Los Angeles Mayor’s Design Advisory Board, and is the Vice Director of the highly ranked Southern California Institute of Architecture, as well as a visiting critic at universities worldwide. Margaret Griffin serves on the City of Santa Monica’s Architectural Review Board, the Syracuse University School of Architecture Advisory Board, having previously served on the Los Angeles AIA Board of Directors, and is design faculty at the Southern California Institute of Architecture.