Standard Architecture

Standard Architecture is a premier and innovative Los Angeles architecture firm which draws from companies’ ideals and ways of thinking and creates physical spaces to represent them. The firm began as a partnership between architects Jeffrey Allsbrook and Silvia Kuhle who are inspired and led by narratives pulled from the cultures and identities they encounter. For this firm, architecture is a powerful medium with the power to communicate across generations, cultures, and ways of thinking.

Though based in Los Angeles, Standard Architecture draws inspiration and ideals from classic and modern European architecture and living. Through this, the firm explores how ideas can interact with local environments and ecology of the community to create unique, attractive, and thoughtful designs. Standard Architecture draws from the core fundamentals of space, light, and materiality to inform each aspect of the design process, from the inside out. This means that it is not simply the outside of a building that is interrogated, but also the furniture and the layout and the building’s place within its urban environment. A building’s relationship with its city and the people that use it is paramount to its creation.

Of course, Standard Architecture is more than its two leading partners. The firm finds its success through extensive collaboration and research into cultures, ideas, and identities. Experts across a wide range of fields are consulted with to ask important questions and to also lead the firm to necessary design solutions.

The work produced by Standard Architecture serves the world around it rather than relying on easy consumerism or flashy designs. Through careful research, intensive collaborative efforts, and the design expertise of its architects, Standard Architecture endeavors to interact with the world in a new way. Design is not simply about the visuals, it is about creating something for a community that allows for communication and connection across time and culture.