About | Breakform Design

Breakform Design: Where design and construction break form.

Our firm name, "breakform," is a testament to our roots in fabrication, symbolizing the transformative process by which metal gets bent and ideas become molded into physical reality. Knowledgable in history to look forward, we have a "Bauhaus" of doing architecture.

Our Story

Headquartered in Los Angeles since 2002, with an outpost in Lake Tahoe since 2022, Breakform Design's team of over twenty people blends architectural design, project management, and construction skills with cutting-edge fabrication capabilities.

Our work across the three bridges gaps between industries as architecture, fabrication, and construction sets Breakform Design apart an as both innovator both in our fields and on the job site.

At Breakform Design, constraints imposed by site, context, climate, community, and culture inspire our team and collaborators to create opportunities to approach each project differently while building on over twenty years of experience and knowing what it takes to get multilayered projects finished.

Our firm philosophy is rooted and driven in response to the diverse range of opportunities for us as architects to weigh-in. As architects and builders, we bring extensive research, in-house expertise, and multiple perspectives to each project.

Whether leading the architectural design or working as fabricator or contractor to realize another design, Breakform Design's portfolio comprises a mix of site-inspired houses, multi-family and mixed-use developments with affordable units, and hospitality-driven commercial projects.

Breakform Design's artist, architect, and celebrity collaborators include Frank Gehry, Larry Scarpa, Tom Kundig, David Montalba, Mike Rotondi, Prada, Will.i.Am, Queen Latifah, Zimmer, Neil Lane, Malo, and Revolve, among others.