Studio AR&D Architects

Studio AR&D Architects, Inc. is an innovative architecture, design, & construction firm founded in 2005 with offices based out of Los Angeles and Palm Springs, California. Our firm was founded on the belief that architecture has the capacity to help shape one’s experience throughout our daily lives. The spaces we live in influence how we think, feel, and express ourselves. Our projects, big or small, public or private, high-end or more modest in budget, all seek to enrich our environment in a meaningful and poetic way.

Over the past 15 years, Studio AR&D Architects has completed a range of residential, commercial, and hospitality projects both nationally and internationally. We are constantly building on what we’ve learned from past projects to design unique and innovative designs that align with our client’s objectives. Our style is an evolution of simplicity yet detailed, organic and grounded to the earth, and poetic. As a result, our work has been consistently recognized by our peers in the AIA, and various other national and international design publications.

Sean Lockyer, AIA

Sean is the founding principal and lead architect for Studio AR&D Architects. His choice for the direction of the firm has always been one that speaks to the craft and alliance between both architecture and the landscape. Since its inception, the firm began to truly explore the poetic relationship of space and materiality amongst interior and exterior environment.

Sean continues to develop the deeper relationships and coexistence of material and space and their influences on our everyday lives. He has helped cultivate a body of work that is deeply influenced by the environment and the sense. He enjoys the time within the firm’s offices as much as on the construction sites working closely with the builders and craftsmen breathing life into the firms designs.

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