The latest news, events, and details about current projects and office activities.
April 4, 2024
Ed Ogosta delivered a guest lecture on EOA’s work at the University of Hawaii School of Archtecture today. The hour-long talk covered the creative origins of various projects in our portfolio, as well as strategies for concept generation and implementation. Thanks to Professor Yasushi Ishida for the invitation!
February 29, 2024
Groundbreaking is now underway at our 5000 s.f. new house project in Pacific Palisades. Located on Chautauqua Blvd just up the street from the Eames House, the project will reinvent this site with a sensitively-scaled 1-story modern residence full of light, warmth, and texture. Project renderings will be up on our site soon!
September 1, 2023
Winners were announced today for the 2023 AIA California Design Awards, for which Ed Ogosta had the honor of serving as a juror. The five-member jury met over two days in July to review over 200 entries, narrowing it down to 19 awardees, which represent the best recent works of architecture in California. Congratulations to all the winners, which can be viewed here.
July 12, 2023
Today marks the end of eight years of service Ed Ogosta has provided to the Culver City Planning Commission. His second term now completed, he was honored today in a ceremony at City Hall council chambers, where speeches were given, thank-you’s exchanged, and citations were provided. In the time he served as Commissioner, Culver City has undergone tremendous changes, and Ed was instrumental in reviewing and approving major projects such as the Amazon Prime campus at Culver Studios, Culver Steps, Apple TV HQ, Ivy Station, and numerous housing projects. As the only architect on the five-member Commission, Ed provided a forward-looking perspective on the issues facing the City with regard to design, zoning, social issues, and the built environment. Thanks are in order to past and present Commissioners, City staff, and citizens for this very warm recognition of Ed’s service. A video of the ceremony can be viewed here, with Ed’s farewell speech beginning at the nine minute mark.
December 2, 2022
Ed Ogosta was in Chicago this week to pick up a 2022 American Architecture Award from the Chicago Athenaeum Museum for our Orbital House project. The gala event, held at the Arts Club of Chicago, awarded outstanding architecture from around the country. We are honored that our project received this recognition!
November 19, 2022
Three years ago, Ed Ogosta was invited to be on the Planning Committee for the 2022 AIA Committee on Design (COD) conference, which, after a huge planning effort, begins today in Los Angeles. The four-day conference brings together 100 design-focused architecture firm leaders from around the USA for a series of building tours, discussions, and events centered around Los Angeles’ innovative residential architecture. Twenty-five building tours are scheduled, which includes LA classics like the Schindler House and Neutra VDL House, as well as new housing projects by Brooks+Scarpa, Thom Mayne, and Lorcan O’Herlihy. Ed and the fantastic LA planning team (pictured below at Frank Gehry’s residence in Santa Monica) met throughout the pandemic to plan all details of the conference, so it’s exciting to see all it come together at last!
April 25, 2022
Leibal.com is one of our favorite design websites, and today has a spread on our Outlook House. Known for featuring minimal architecture from around the world, Leibal is one we look at daily, so it’s great to see our work shared on this fantastic site!
September 1, 2021
We’re excited to announce that our Orbital House has won a 2021 design Honor Award from Residential Design magazine. The project, located amidst an incredible landscape of boulders in Yucca Valley, has long been in development and is currently in plan check. We’re honored to receive the award; the full project image set can be found here.
February 1, 2021
2020 marked the completion of two major remodels we’ve been working on for some time: the Swell House in Manhattan Beach and the Outlook House in Sherman Oaks. Both projects began as rather awkward homes from the 1970s-80s which the owners were looking to completely transform on the inside while simplifying and clarifying the existing exterior forms, materials, and apertures. See below for some before & after shots; full photos can be found in the project links.
October 1, 2020
Check out this month’s LA Magazine to see our thought experiment to help address LA’s housing crisis. We were among 13 firms invited by the magazine to offer blue-sky housing ideas. Our proposal was a deliberate provocation aimed at densifying R-1 single family zones by allocating a portion of residential streets to a line of elevated row houses. This new housing typology features private outdoor decks between units and roof geometry reflecting the character of the existing neighborhood. The street itself narrows down to a one-way, single lane avenue conducive to walking or biking, with a scale and character not unlike residential areas of Venice or Tokyo. Since nearly half of LA’s land area is dedicated to single family dwellings, our proposal suspends disbelief and asks: if somehow no hurdles to implementation existed, how might these zones share the burden of responsibility for addressing our city’s housing challenges?
August 3, 2020
Our SkyValley House in Lake Arrowhead received top honors today, with a Jury Award in the 2020 Architizer A+ Awards. The project competed with four other international finalists which were selected from hundreds of entries from around the globe. We are incredibly honored for this recognition, and grateful to our fantastic client for embracing creative architecture!
July 20, 2020
Thrilled to announce that our SkyValley House in Lake Arrowhead is one of five international finalists in its category for the Architizer A+ Awards. The Public Choice voting period ends July 31st; please follow this link to cast your vote!
February 19, 2020
We’re excited to share video of Ed’s Emerging Talent lecture from last year’s Monterey Design Conference. The speech took place before some 900 conference attendees, and shares Ed’s origins in architecture and recent work.
January 10, 2020
For the second year in a row, we have received a Residential Architect Design Award by Architect magazine. This time the award goes to our SkyValley House in Lake Arrowhead. The full spread in the December 2019 issue of Architect can be found here. We’re very honored by this great recognition!
October 28, 2019
It was a fantastic honor sharing our work as an Emerging Talent speaker in front of over 900 colleagues at the Monterey Design Conference this past weekend. Our presentation landed in the schedule between two greats: Yvonne Farrell of Grafton Architects and Brian MacKay-Lyons of MacKay-Lyons Sweetapple Architects. Other outstanding speakers in the lineup included architects Neri & Hu and Alberto Kalach. It was wonderful getting to see old friends and make new ones, and we look forward to the next MDC in 2021!
October 10, 2019
Ed has been selected as one of four featured Emerging Talent speakers at AIA California’s Monterey Design Conference. This legendary biennial event, held from October 25-27 at Monterey’s Asilomar Conference Center, brings together renowned architects from around the world to present their work and discuss architecture in-depth. Ed’s presentation in historic Merrill Hall on 10/26 will share EOA’s approach to architecture and our latest work. It’s a huge honor and we’re looking forward to this fantastic event.
July 14, 2019
Wonderful to see today’s story in the LA Times on our Corner Pocket House in Manhattan Beach. The project is featured in the Times Weekend section in a great full-page spread by Emily Young. The full story can be found here.
April 7, 2019
Ed was recently interviewed on The Arch, an architecture and design podcast in association with Form Magazine. The 40-minute interview covers Ed’s background, core design philosophy, and goes in-depth into several recent projects. Thanks very much to host Jeff Urdank and Form Magazine for a great conversation. The podcast can be accessed from Form, Soundcloud, or iTunes.
January 25, 2019
This week, Edward Ogosta Architecture was included as one of 15 top Los Angeles offices on two leading design websites—ArchDaily and Dezeen. Both sites provide a glimpse into LA architecture firms with images by photographer Mark Goodwin. EOA is in good company, being featured alongside such veteran firms as Morphosis, Michael Maltzan Architecture, and Brooks+Scarpa.
December 20, 2018
Architect magazine has honored our Rear Window House with its 2018 Residential Architect Design Award. Our project was amongst twenty residential projects of all scales to be selected. The jury commented:
“I love the way it deals with renovating the very typical ranch house: This could easily be a brand new house that is ground-up, and it really does make the case for reusing an existing structure.”
We’re amazed how far our little addition project has come, and how it’s resonated with people as a smart way to extend the life of an aging home.
