Barton Phelps & Associates
http://www.bpala.com/

The built work of Barton Phelps & Associates ranges from intimate to monumental - houses, gardens, exhibitions and furniture to workplaces, schools, libraries, university buildings, concert halls, industrial plants. We?ve completed an aquarium for the City of Los Angeles, a Gymnastics venue for the 1984 Olympic Games, and a pumping station for the L. A. Department of Water and Power. Projects receiving recent international recognition include the Milligan Auditorium / Carver Commons at Thacher School in Ojai, the Forum at Dimensional Fund Advisors in Santa Monica, community branches of the L.A. Public Library in Hollywood, Los Feliz, San Pedro, and Woodland Hills, and the Renovation of Royce Hall ? UCLA?s National Register landmark performing arts center.

But we began our practice designing houses and we continue to find special satisfaction in that work. We?ve designed them and overseen their construction on both coasts, in the South and Mid-West. In addition to winning national and regional design awards our projects have been subjects of gallery exhibitions, television programs, and books (see Dream Homes Los Angeles, 2008; New Houses, Barcelona and Out of Town, Sydney, 2006). They?ve been featured in such periodicals as: Architecture, Architectural Digest, Architectural Record, Los Angeles Times Magazine, New York Times Magazine, Progressive Architecture, Sunset, Traditional Home, Western Interiors and Design, and abroad in Arkinetia Inter- net (Madrid) A + U (Tokyo), Bauwelt (Berlin), Baumeister (Munich), Colorfulness, (Beijing), G.A.Houses (Tokyo), In CASA (Milan), Interior Digest (Moscow), Tsarim (Istanbul), Vogue Living (Sydney).

The residential work of Barton Phelps, FAIA, has been recognized in The AD 100 Architects (Architectural Digest), The List (Western Interiors and Design), and The Franklin Report. Elected to the College of Fellows of the American Institute of Architects, he served as national Chair of the AIA Committee on Design and is an advisor to the U. S. State Department on embassy design, to The University of California on campus design and to the City of Los Angeles Mayor?s
Design Advisory Panel. A native New Yorker, he received a B.A. with Honors in Art from Williams College and an M. Arch from Yale where he assisted architectural historian Vincent Scully in teaching his legendary Introduction to Modern Architecture. He worked with Sir Colin St. John Wilson in London and with Frank Gehry and Charles Moore in Los Angeles. After teaching design and landscape studies at the Rice University School of Architecture, he was appointed to the faculty at UCLA?s Graduate School of Architecture and Urban Planning where for many years he linked practice with teaching. His research in landscape studies has been supported by fellowships from the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts. Active as a lecturer and writer, his recent articles for Places, A Forum of Environmental Design include: Paris: Cultivating the Civilis?e, Taming the Sauvage; Serial Colonizations, Succession Landscapes, and the California Problem; and A House at the Meeting of Two Landscapes.