info@denari.co

NMDA works on projects at all scales in multiple design-media systems.
For more on some of the people, institutions, and ideas that have informed the work, please click on the links in lime green.

Founded: 1998, Los Angeles by Neil M. Denari, FAIA / Professor, UCLA Department of Architecture & Urban Design
Services: Site Planning / Architecture / Interiors / Graphic Design / Landscape Design / Furniture Design / Facades
Projects: Asia, North America, European Union, South America

NMDA is a Los Angeles based office dedicated to exploring the worlds of architecture, urbanism, and graphic design. Working across virtually every scale, from furniture to high rises and large scale planning projects, the office approaches design as the outcome of research and speculative thinking. We place equal emphasis on the sustainability of culture and its mirror, the sustainability of the planet.

Neil M. Denari, FAIA, is the founder and principal of Neil M. Denari Architects and a Professor of Architecture at UCLA, The University of California / Los Angeles.

Between 1982 and 1998, he operated as COR-TEX Architecture.

Among his many personal awards are the 2011 Los Angeles AIA Gold Medal, the chapter’s highest honor for a practitioner; the Interior Design Hall of Fame in 2010; the USA Artists Fellowship in 2010; and the mid-career award from the Academy of Arts & Letters New York in 2008.

Denari is the author of three books on his work and ideas, including MASS X, a 775 page monograph published in 2018 by AADCU of Beijing. His next book, Annotated Notebooks, will be released in 2024.

Denari received a Bachelor of Architecture in 1980 from the University of Houston and a Master of Architecture from Harvard University in 1982. He lived and worked in New York between 1983 and 1988 and in Tokyo from 1990 to 1991. His work is held in the permanent collections of eight museums including MoMA New York ,FRAC Centre Orleans, and San Francisco MOMA. He continues to exhibit and lecture around the world.

His most recent lecture, THE SOUND OF SCRAPING GUITARS IN PERFECT HARMONY, is available to watch on Vimeo.

2211 Corinth Avenue / Suite 201 / Los Angeles, CA 90064 / Tel: 1_424_248_3021 / info@denari.co

NMDA works on projects at all scales in multiple design-media systems. For more on some of the people, institutions, and ideas that have informed the work, please click on the links in lime green.

2211 Corinth Avenue / Suite 201 / Los Angeles, CA 90064 /
Tel: 1_424_248_3021 / info@denari.co

NMDA works on projects at all scales in multiple design-media systems.
For more on some of the people, institutions, and ideas that have informed the work, please click on the links in lime green.