Roger Sherman Architecture and Urban Design

Profile of Roger Sherman Architecture and Urban Design

Business Name

Roger Sherman Architecture and Urban Design

Location

United States

Services

Architecture

Website

http://www.rsaud.com

Principal(s)

Roger Sherman (born 1958)

• M.Arch. with Distinction, Harvard Graduate School of Design, 1985
• B.Arts Magna Cum Laude, Univ. of Pennsylvania, 1980
• Licensed Architect, California and New York, 1989
• Member, American Institute of Architects
• Advisory Boardmember, Livable Places (non-profit housing developer)
• Boardmember, Westside Urban Forum
• Adjunct Associate Professor, UCLA Dept. of Architecture and Urban Design
• Co-director, cityLAB (UCLA urban thinktank)
• Wheelwright Fellow, Harvard GSD, 1995

Philosophy

Roger Sherman Architecture (RSA) specializes in the design of single and multi-family residential projects. Its work is attuned to lifestyle as a source of design ideas, as well as how to design and plan residential interiors and exteriors to maximize flexibility and accommodate change. This translates to an effort to consider and integrate the landscape and interior as equal components of the domestic realm. But also, in a period of escalating construction and land cost, it has also become quite strategic in terms of how to affordably achieve a strong architectural character in each project. This involves looking for ways to do more with less-such as trying not to build more square footage than is actually necessary, in order to attain a high quality of space, finish, and craftsmanship.

Accordingly, its office is familiar with many of L.A.'s finest residential contractors, craftsmen, engineers and consultants, and keeps itself and its clients up-to-date with the latest sustainable materials and equipment, crafts and techniques, and ecologically-friendly building technologies.

RSA's design work has been the recipient of numerous design awards, and the subject of several exhibitions and publications nationally and internationally. The most recent of these include an exhibition of the Flex-Spec-Deck House in Gloucestershire, UK, at both the Victoria and Albert Museum and RIBA Gallery in London, in July of 2005. It also won an American Institute of Architects (AIA) Merit Award the same year for the 3-in-1 House in Santa Monica, which was featured in the July 2005 issue of Los Angeles Magazine.

The firm limits overhead expenses so that its staff may optimize their time and attention with regard to the design of the projects themselves, at every level of detail, affording a unique degree of attention to the client and their programmatic needs.

Background

• Founded: 1990
• Offices: 1
• Design team: 5

Key projects

• Flex-Deck-Spec House, Gloucestershire, UK: current. New residence
• De La Torre House and Rental House, L.A., CA: under const. Two new residences
• Gill/Weg Residence (remodel), Silverlake, CA: completed 2007. Complete remodel
• 3-in-1 House, Santa Monica, CA: completed 2004. New residence
• Maatta Residence Remodel/Addition, Los Angeles, CA: completed 2001. Kitchen/living room remodel/addition
• Radford Residence Kitchen Remodel/Addition, North Hollywood, CA: completed 2000. Kitchen remodel/addition
• Office Condominiums (35,000 SF), Culver City, CA: current
• Avenue 26 Mixed Use/ For Sale condos (151 units/200,000 SF) : Lincoln Heights (L.A.): 2005
• Melrose Triangle Mixed-Use Live/Work Housing (325,000 SF), West Hollywood, CA: 2001
• Mission Hill Artist's Live/Work, Roxbury (Boston), MA: 1987

Key publications

• FORM, Sept/Oct 07, pp. 40, 42
• Esquire Japan, "New Blood", August 2007, p. 69
• L.A. Architect, "Water" (Flex-Spec-Deck House); Balcony Media,Inc., Jan/Feb 2007
• Architecture Now, Volume 4 (3-in-1 House), Feb. 2006
• Los Angeles Magazine, "Downsize Me!" (3-in-1 House), July 2005
• L.A. Architect, "Awards Issue" (3-in-1 House), Jan/Feb 2005
• G/A Houses (52): Project 1997 (Thompson-Makin Residence)
• Re: American Dream: Six Housing Prototypes for Los Angeles, Princeton Architectural Press, 1994 (editor, contributor)

Key awards

• AIA/NextLA Award (Railyard Park, Santa Fe), 2007
• AIA/NextLA Award (Gateway Park, Toledo), 2007
• Home of the Year Award (3-in-1 House), Architect Magazine, 2006
• AIA/Design Award (3 - in - 1 House), 2004
• P/A Honor Award, RePark: Freshkills Landfill End Use Plan, 2003
• American Society of Landscape Architects/Honor Award (RePark: Freshkills Landfill End Use Plan), 2003
• AIA/Next LA Honor Award (RePark: Freshkills Landfill End Use Plan), 2002
• AIA/Next LA Honor Award (North Hollywood Development Plan), 1998
• P/A Award, Urban Design (West Hollywood Civic Center), 1989
• Winner, West Hollywood Civic Center International Design Competition, 1987