In Association withMICHAEL B. MACLAREN A.I.A. Architect
Malibu · Architecture + design
Luxury homes, multifamily and commercial buildings, interiors, and design-build, connected by one creative point of view and decades of practical experience.
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Architecture at every scale
Each practice has its own demands, clients, and expertise. Together they form a studio able to think from the scale of a site to the scale of an object, and carry a strong idea farther.
Singular residences shaped by land, light, interior life, art, and the people who will call them home.
Explore ↗Housing, mixed-use, hospitality, and commercial work where identity and development discipline belong together.
Explore ↗Interior architecture, material, furniture, art, objects, lighting, and installation composed as one lived experience.
Explore ↗Architecture informed early by cost, constructability, sequencing, procurement, craft, and field knowledge.
Explore ↗Selected work
Distinctive homes lead the story. Multifamily, affordable housing, hospitality, commercial work, and interiors reveal the breadth of experience behind them.
The creative thread
Amit Apel’s work as a designer, artist, sculptor, and maker shapes more than the objects placed inside a room. It informs proportion, movement, tension, material, color, and the emotional life of the architecture itself.
Services
Design, approvals, engineering and building. Most projects use several of these; a few use all of them.
Imagination, grounded
Experience is felt in the decisions that protect a project: from early feasibility and entitlement strategy through coordination, construction, and the final details.
Feasibility, zoning, massing, access, topography, view, drainage, and the path to approval.
Architecture, structural, civil, MEP, landscape, interiors, energy, and specialty systems aligned around one direction.
Constructability, cost, sequencing, procurement, lead times, and field conditions considered while choices can still improve.
Permit responses, consultant coordination, quality review, materials, and site decisions kept close to the design intent.
Selected work
Custom residences, multifamily housing, affordable and senior communities, hospitality and commercial buildings. Completed, occupied, and operating across Los Angeles and Ventura County.
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