Belzberg Architects serves as a significant mid-career survey of the Santa Monica-based eponymous practice. It reflects upon the last 20 years of the studio's work, exploring a rich mix of award-winning projects including the Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust, The Gores Group Headquarters, the Kaplan Family Pavilion at City of Hope, Tree Top Residence in California and Threads and Profiles in Mexico City. This diverse range of built work is complemented by unbuilt projects that provide key insight into the team's responsive and collaborative design process.
Founded in 1997, Belzberg Architects incorporates a narrative-led approach to design. Each project's conceptualisation stems from a sensitivity toward user interaction. Working collaboratively with engineers and consultants such as Arup and Potion Design, the studio implements cutting-edge digital fabrication and manufacturing technologies that optimise performance without sacrificing values of sustainability and economy.
Under the direction of founding partner Hagy Belzberg, Belzberg Architects has grown into a multidisciplinary, dynamic design studio with equal prowess in the cultural, institutional, commercial and luxury residential sectors, as well as providing interior design services for museums, offices, universities and public resource buildings alike. This versatility stems from Belzberg Architects' capacity to successfully combine local resources with a spirit of innovation and global collaboration.
Alongside its featured projects, Belzberg Architects addresses the benefits of a collaborative, cross-disciplinary design approach that melds architecture with traditional and emerging complementary disciplines. Drawings and diagrams further flesh out the firm's methodology and lend an elegance to Belzberg Architects-with this combination, likewise, characterizing the studio's practice at large.
