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We help visionary clients tell their stories and create spaces that are right for them, right for the people they serve, and right for the planet.

Since 1998, March Studio’s constant vision and passion, in both our teaching and our practice, is to combine the principles of good design with the best practices in marketing to create branded architecture with purpose. The result is something boldly innovative: beautiful, functional buildings and spaces that tell our clients’ stories, by capturing the essence of who they truly are. Brand is the starting point. It both inspires us and guides us. It helps us to understand whom we are designing for and what’s important to them. The brand helps us to create meaning and purpose in the design. It informs what we are doing, how we are doing it, and why. We value our relationships and believe in a fully collaborative effort that leads to buildings and environments that help to fulfill our clients’ purpose. It is our intention that the spaces we create and the connections we foster will inspire creative collaborations and visionary ideas that add value to the architecture, the brand, and the community.

10/29/2026

What comes first: the form or the experience?

At March Studio, we don’t begin with a predetermined image of what a building should look like.

We begin with questions. How will people move through the space? How will they use it? What should it feel like?

As Todd Erlandson, FAIA, explains, his approach to architecture evolved from thinking about buildings as forms to understanding them as a series of human experiences.

The final design emerges through that process, shaped by the people who will inhabit it.

Experience first. Form follows.

10/23/2026

At March Studio, we believe the most meaningful spaces aren’t necessarily the ones that make the biggest statement. They’re the ones people feel comfortable in, return to and make their own.

Good architecture is about the people who experience it.

10/22/2026

Flashback to Vietnam, 2024. 🇻🇳

During our trip to Cao Bang for the opening of the Family Medical Center, we discovered that happy hour aboard a traditional Vietnamese junk was actually a pretty good place to review architectural plans!

Not a bad setting for a project meeting, surrounded by limestone mountains, beautiful water and a sunset.

One of the things I love about architecture is that the work takes you to unexpected places, and sometimes the best conversations happen far away from the office.

A memorable trip for a project that meant a great deal to us.

10/16/2026

What if the spaces where we work could actively support our wellbeing?

For the City of Santa Monica, March Studio transformed an underused rooftop addition at City Hall into a more welcoming, flexible workplace.

Working within a modest budget, the design introduced natural light, adaptable workspaces and connections to the outdoors, creating an environment that encourages collaboration while supporting the people working within it.

A reminder that thoughtful design doesn’t always mean starting from scratch. Sometimes, it’s about recognizing the potential in what’s already there.

10/15/2026

A little change of scenery for our weekly team meeting. ☕️

Todd, Marisol and Schuyler took their meeting to a coffee shop in Silver Lake, where they were joined by a very special guest: Sid!

Fresh off his first birthday on September 25, Sid was alert, curious and fully engaged in the conversation (or at least everything happening around him!).

A lovely reminder that sometimes the youngest people in the room bring the most unexpected inspiration. 💛

10/12/2026

A little learning, good conversation and some w**e and cheese at the March Studio office. 🍷

We recently welcomed Tibbie Dunbar, Hon. AIA/LA, from Henrybuilt for an evening exploring their work in kitchens and millwork, and the craft, materials and innovation behind it.

Tibbie and Todd go back many years to her time leading the A+D Museum in Los Angeles, so it was especially nice to welcome her into our studio and bring together friends from several Westside architecture and design practices for the evening.

Thank you to Tibbie for sharing her knowledge so generously, and to everyone who joined us. We’re already looking forward to seeing more of Henrybuilt’s work firsthand at their Downtown LA showroom.

Learn more about Henrybuilt

09/30/2026

Another milestone at Friends St. 🏗️

This home is being rebuilt after the fires, making every stage of construction especially meaningful. Wall framing is now complete, the roof is nearly finished and drywall will be going up soon.

Over the next few weeks, we’ll move into finishes and start seeing the character of the home emerge beyond the structure.

There’s still work ahead, but we’re getting close.

We can’t wait to share the finished home and see this family return to a place that feels like theirs again.

09/28/2026

How much of a city do we actually notice when we experience it from behind a windshield?

Back in 2013, for the Windshield Perspective project, March Studio studied a stretch of Beverly Boulevard in Los Angeles, looking more closely at the architecture, history, communities and everyday details that can disappear when we’re simply passing through.

The project transformed those observations into an exhibition at the A+D Architecture and Design Museum, inviting visitors to slow down and see a familiar Los Angeles streetscape from a different perspective.

More than a decade later, the question still feels relevant: what are we missing when we move through our cities too quickly?

09/09/2026

What happens when architecture education moves out of the studio and into the landscape?

Last summer at DSC, students spent seven weeks studying vernacular buildings, developing concepts through sketches and models, working with available materials and ultimately constructing a small chapel together.

The process asked them to do more than design an object. They had to understand the site, respond to limited resources, collaborate closely and learn directly through making.

The finished structure became a quiet place for reflection in the desert, but the lasting value was in the process behind it.

For us, that is one of the most meaningful parts of teaching architecture: helping students understand that design is not only something you draw. It is something you observe, test, build and learn from.

09/02/2026

Things are taking shape at Friends St. 🏗️

We’ve reached the framing stage, and the project is starting to feel less like drawings and more like a real place.

Walls, openings and the roof structure are defining the spaces and giving us the first real sense of scale.

Always an exciting point in the process. More progress to come.

Address

3008 Lincoln Boulevard
Santa Monica, CA
90405

Opening Hours

Monday	9am - 6pm
Tuesday	9am - 6pm
Wednesday	9am - 6pm
Thursday	9am - 6pm
Friday	9am - 6pm

Telephone

+13106640651

Website

https://www.marchstudio.com/

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