NEWS
10.20.2023
“Why Do The Bad Guys Live In The Coolest Houses?” Valery Augustin featured on Architectural Digest
08.10.2023
Valery Augustin gives a tour of Disney Concert Hall for Architectural Digest Magazine.
07.05.2023
Valery Augustin gives a walking tour of Downtown Los Angeles for Architectural Digest Magazine. Learn about local landmarks, including the Million Dollar Theater, Union Station, the Eastern Columbia Building, and Central High School No. 9 by Coop Himmelblau.
05.25.2023
Architectural Digest features Valery Augustin on episodes of Blueprint. Watch as he describes five different housing types found in Los Angeles.
03.06.2023
DNA Architecture + Design featured in the Come Home exhibition at the Chicago Architecture Center.
https://www.world-architects.com/en/architecture-news/found/new-designs-for-the-missing-middle
01.27.2023
DNA Architecture + Design was shortlisted to participate in the Come Home Initiative. Organized by the Chicago Architecture Center in cooperation with the City of Chicago, the juried competition and wealth-building initiative will support the design of “missing middle density” infill housing in some of the City’s storied historic neighborhoods. The Come Home Initiative is part of Mayor Lori E. Lightfoot’s signature community development effort, INVEST South/West, which aims to reverse decades of disinvestment and depopulation and transform the urban fabric of Chicago’s South and West Side neighborhoods.
https://www.architecture.org/learn/resources/come-home/
01.15.2023
DNA Architecture + Design will collaborate with artist Sage Ni’Ja Whitson on Transtraterrestrial. Transtraterrestial is the prequel to an upcoming dance theater installation premiering at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute’s Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center (EMPAC) in Spring 2023.
https://empac.rpi.edu/events/2023/transtraterrestrial
10.14.2022
FIT Miami 6: Principal Valery Augustin was a featured panelist at the 2022 Fit Miami 6 conference.
08.17.2022
DNA Architecture + Design, Inc. and AKA Architecture + Design awarded M Motel Homekey project in El Monte, California. The rehabilitation and renovation will provide 71 units for homeless families in the area along with associated support services. Completion anticipated in Spring of 2023.
06.13.2022
Clover Park Restroom Replacement project receives a 2022 CMACN/AIA CA Honor Award in the Public/Civic Design category. Congrats to all the winners.
https://cmacn.org/design-awards/
06.08.2022
Ladera Heights ADU featured on Dwell.com. “Budget Breakdown: An Architect Overhauls His Garage Into a Finely Tuned ADU for $75K”
06.01.2022
“From Skateland to Hopeland” YouTube video of the Trebek Center ribbon cutting and virtual tour featuring principal Valery Augustin (18:25).
05.09.2022
Interview and article on DNA Architecture + Design’s work on the Trebek Center featuring Valery Augustin on KPCC/National Public Radio (NPR) and LAist
02.04.2022
Valery Augustin featured on Dirt.com’s list of “15 Trailblazing Black Architects You Should Know, Past and Present.”
https://www.dirt.com/gallery/more-dirt/design/black-architects-1203451856/
12.21.2021
Trebek Center Bridge Housing was featured in On The Boards in the November/December issue of Architect Magazine.
Trebek Center Bridge Housing, by DNA Architecture + Design | Architect Magazine
05.26.2021
Raymer Street Shelter receives a 2021 Residential Architecture Award in the Temporary Shelter category.
10.01.2020
Above The Line was featured in Los Angele s Magazine article on affordable housing.
https://www.lamag.com/citythinkblog/housing-solutions-los-angeles/
09.23.2020
Riverside Family Shelter breaks ground
09.09.2020
Clover Park Restroom Replacement project was featured in the July 2020 CMU Profiles in Architecture published by the Concrete Masonry Association of California and Nevada.
http://www.cmacn.org/PDF/CMU_Profiles_July_2020.pdf
12.10.19
DNA Architecture + Design, Inc. was commissioned to design 85 bed Bridge Housing project in North Hollywood, CA
11.15.19
Clover Park Restroom project completed
10.20.19
Principal Valery Augustin was interviewed by CNN for an article on the world’s tallest buildings.
https://www.cnn.com/style/article/tallest-buildings-world-2019/index.html
06.2019
BANDIER Los Angeles Flagship completed
05.2019
Delicious at the Dunbar selected as a 2019 AIA/LA Restaurant Design Awards Finalist.
https://tinyurl.com/rda-2019-peoples-choice
11.2018
Delicious at the Dunbar opens in South Los Angeles
https://la.eater.com/2018/11/9/18079764/delicious-at-dunbar-opening-central-avenue-los-angeles
08.2018
Clover Park Restroom Pavilions break ground
05.2018
Hancock Park residential addition completed
01.2018
Melrose commercial renovation project completed
05.2017
Air Food completed.
03.2017
Construction begins on Air Food restaurant
02.2017
Clover Park Restroom Pavilions granted Santa Monica ARB Approval
01.2017
Construction begins on Delicious @ Dunbar restaurant and lounge
05.2016
Melrose commercial renovation project breaks ground at the corner of Melrose and Crescent Heights
04.2016
DNA A+D was commissioned to design a restaurant at the historic Dunbar Hotel in South LA. The Dunbar was the center of the Central Avenue jazz scene in the 1930s and 1940's and hosted prominent jazz legends including Billie Holiday, Louis Armstrong, and Duke Ellington
01.2016
DNA A+D with Pleskow Architects awarded City of Santa Monica Clover Park Restroom Replacement Project
12.2015
DNA A+D commissioned for a new restaurant project in Santa Monica
10.2015
Lyceum Residence completed
07.2015
Easton Drive Residence completed
05.2015
Lyceum Addition begins construction
04.2013
Does Architecture Matter?
04.2013
Does Architecture Matter? Valery Augustin in discussion with Thom Mayne and Fred Kent at the Getty Center. Organized by Zocalo Public Square and the J. Paul Getty Museum, the half-day conference explored the impact of architecture on the present and future.
http://www.getty.edu/museum/programs/lectures/architecture_symposium.html
04.2013
d3:Sketch 2013. Drawings by Valery Augustin selected for Sketch 2013. Organized by d3, the international exhibition was displayed at Fordham University's Center Gallery in Manhattan