In “A Campus Building That Asks Students to Slow Down,” (Metropolis Magazine, March 2026) architecture critic Sam Lubell holistically examines the Contemplative Commons’ design intentions within the University of Virginia’s academic and architectural context.
The Contemplative Commons at the University of Virginia earns a Chicago Athenaeum Green Good Design Award.
The Contemplative Commons at the University of Virginia receives a High Commendation from the Civic Trust Awards, a program which seeks to encourage the very best in public architecture and environmental design.
ABOUT: Magazine’s “A Day in the Life of…” newsletter spotlights Joshua Aidlin and David Darling.
Six projects by Aidlin Darling Design are featured in Out There: New Architecture Across America, a critical survey of 50 firms whose work is distinguished by a profound connection to place. The book is now available for pre-order.
Philip Jodidio’s latest volume for Taschen, Homes for Our Time. Sustainable Living, features the Three Gables Residence.
Maddison Cochran writes about the High Desert Retreat for The Local Project.
Erin Crowden writes about the Trestle Residence for The Local Project.
Josephine Minutillo captures the spirit of the Contemplative Commons in, “A Building and Site for Contemplative Practice, by Aidlin Darling Design, Takes Shape at the University of Virginia,” (Architectural Record, January 2026).
America ByDesign features The Prow in Season 4 Episode 10, which premiered on CBS News, and is now available through the AIA Resource Center.
The Pavilion for Music and Meditation receives two architectural honors: an “American Architecture Award” from the Chicago Athenaeum, and a “Small Architecture Award” from The Architecture Masterprize.
Interior Design marked the 20th anniversary of the Best of Year Awards with a special commendation, the “Best of the Best Awards,” recognizing the most iconic projects of the past two decades. The Prow is included among the honorees.
In “Reimagining—and Restoring—a Napa Icon: Robert Mondavi Winery’s Renovation,” Mitch Frank explores how the ongoing transformation honors the vision of Robert Mondavi and his original architect, Clifford May, for Wine Spectator.
The Society of American Registered Architects’ national awards program has recognized the Stags Leap Residence with a Merit Award, and the Pavilion for Music & Meditation with a Design Excellence Award.
Forbes selects Aidlin Darling Design for the 2026 “America’s Top Hospitality Architects + Designers,” an editor-vetted list recognizing architectural excellence in the fine-dining and luxury segments of the hospitality industry.
In “How They Pulled It Off,” Diana Budds tells the story of the Rosa Parks Elementary School Chicken Coop for Dwell.
ArchDaily‘s “Week in Review” highlights the Robert Mondavi Winery design.
Global Design News features the winning projects from the 2025 Future House Awards; read, “L|J Residence Embracing Heritage Oaks and Nature’s Senses.”
AN Interior places Aidlin Darling Design on the 2025 “Top 50 Architects and Designers” list.
Green Building Envelopes: The Latest in Eco-Friendly Architecture, edited by Sibylle Kramer, features The Prow.
L|J Residence wins 2025 Future House Award, an international design award organized by the Chicago Athenaeum and Global Design News.
The Center for Architecture + Design, in partnership with Aidlin Darling Design, announces the launch of DIALOGUES, a series that pairs leading voices across cultural disciplines for intentional conversations exploring how design shapes the human experience. The 2025-2026 season, curated by Aidlin Darling Design, is anchored by the theme “Design and the Human Body.”
Forbes selects Aidlin Darling Design for the second annual “America’s Best-in-State: Residential Architects,” an editor-vetted list recognizing architectural excellence in every state.
In “Viticultural Vision,” written by Daniel Jonas Roche, The Architect’s Newspaper reveals renderings of the transformation underway at Robert Mondavi Winery.
Ben Dreith selects the High Desert Retreat for a curated list of “Eight elegant California dwellings for desert living” on Dezeen.
In”Can a Bad Floor Plan Affect Your Mental Health?” on Architectural Digest and ADPro, Jesse Dorris interviews architects, including Joshua Aidlin, working at the intersection of design and wellbeing.
Dezeen features L|J Residence in “Aidlin Darling Design Sculpts Concrete Bas Relief into California House,” by Kate Mazade.
Joshua Aidlin will deliver a keynote lecture on August 7, 2025 at the AIA Tennessee Conference.
Kent Chiang speaks at the Society for College & University Planning’s national conference, on a panel titled, “Supporting Student Resilience: the UVA Contemplative Commons as a Case study.” The panelists included Alice J. Raucher, Architect for the University of Virginia; Nicole Thomas, Director of the Commons; and Joseph Celentano, Principal, VMDO Architects.
AN Interior features L|J Residence in “Framing Nature,” written by Paige Davidson.
L|J Residence earns the distinction of “Judges Top Choice” in the 2025 San Francisco Design Week Innovation Awards.
The Society for College and University Planning honors the Contemplative Commons with a SCUP/AIA-CAE Excellence in Architecture Award.
The Trestle Residence and the Center for Architecture + Design are Finalists in their respective categories of the 2025 IIDA Interior Design Competition. Learn more about the IIDA honorees.
The Society of American Registered Architects California Chapter have recognized the Pavilion for Music & Meditation with a 2025 Design Excellence Award, and the Stags Leap Residence with an Honor Award.
The 2025 AIA San Francisco Design Awards have been announced. The Rosa Parks Elementary School Chicken Coop & Garden received a Small Project Special Commendation. The Pavilion for Music & Meditation received a Merit Award.
Laing Chung, Melinda Turner and John Zacherle have been promoted to Associates within our studio.
Contemporary Landscape Architecture: Masterpieces Around the World (Braun Publishing, 2025) features Lattice House.
ADC Annual Awards nominate Roslyn Cole to jury the Architecture, Interior, and Environmental Design categories.
A.D.A Edita Tokyo has released GA Houses no. 197, featuring Three Gables Residence photographed by Yoshio Futagawa.
On Thursday, November 14th, Joshua Aidlin and Adam Rouse discuss the High Desert Retreat monograph with Zahid Sardar at the Center for Architecture + Design.
The Downtown SF Partnership honors the American Institute of Architects San Francisco with a Downtown Achievement Award, recognizing their contributions to the revitalization of San Francisco’s urban center.
AN Interior places Aidlin Darling Design on the 2024 “Top 50 Architects and Designers” list.
Joshua Aidlin will jury the Architect’s Newspaper 2024 Best of Design Awards. Learn about the full panel of jurors here.
Joshua Aidlin discusses the future of design on a San Francisco Magazine-hosted panel, along with Nicole Hollis, Gregory Herman and Larry Perez.
The Trestle Residence is featured in an exhibition at the European Centre for Architecture, Art, Design and Urban Studies in Athens, Greece. The exhibition runs through November 10, 2024.
The AIA San Francisco & Center for Architecture + Design and Trestle Residence receive Citations from the 2024 AIA California Awards.
Windhover Contemplative Center recognized with an Honorable Mention from the 2024 Design Educates Awards. This international award program recognizes projects that carry educational value, and respond to complex social and environmental contexts.
Ville e Casali, a leading Italian interior design magazine with a focus on exceptional rural architecture, features Three Gables.
San Francisco Design Week honors the AIA San Francisco & Center for Architecture + Design Headquarters with a Design Award; Rosa Parks Elementary School Chicken Coop, and the Google Store, Mountain View Flagship receive Honorable Mentions.
On June 20, 2024, at the Rizzoli Bookstore, Joshua Aidlin and Adam Rouse join Jack Murphy, Executive Editor of The Architect’s Newspaper, to discuss the launch of the High Desert Retreat monograph, site listening in Coachella Valley, and new directions in Desert Modernism.
David Darling joins James Lord of Surfacedesign, Patrick Gordon of ZGF Architects, and Josh Khanna of Expedia Group, for a panel at the AIA National Conference. The panel focuses on the integration of social and ecological resilience at the Expedia Group Seattle Campus.
The Prow was the subject of an article in Global Design News, a new magazine by The Chicago Athenaeum.
On Architectural Record’s DESIGN:ED podcast, Joshua Aidlin and David Darling discuss their furniture-making roots, creating a space that’s mission-driven to welcome all demographics into design, and how a focus on the human experience led them to contemplative architecture.
Chip Hubert, Hattie Stroud, and Chris DeHenzel are promoted to Associates.
At the AIA Arizona Associates Gathering, Roslyn Cole gives a lecture on creating work in the public realm through the lens of the gathering theme: “Convergence.”
The Google Store, Williamsburg receives an Architecture Citation from the 2024 AIA San Francisco Awards.
At the University of Miami, David Darling delivers a lecture on materiality, environmental stewardship, and cultivating our studio’s ethos.
Clare Jacobson reviews the Google Store, Mountain View in Architectural Record.
Three Gables was recently highlighted in a new book, California Houses, Creativity in Context, by Michael Webb.
Four of our projects won Design Awards from SARA CA. The Center for Architecture + Design, the L|J Residence and the Trestle Residence each received a top Design Award of Excellence. The Rosa Parks Elementary School Chicken Coop received a Design Award of Merit.
Trestle Residence and The Prow win the 2024 IIDA Northern California Honor Awards in their respective categories.
The Nordic Council of Ministers’ Bifrost Summit invited Roslyn Cole to speak on a panel on the “Power of Visions.” She discussed creating the Center for Architecture + Design.
Interior Design Magazine features the Trestle Residence in “Aidlin Darling Design Creates a Picturesque Northern California Home,” by Edie Cohen.
Trestle Residence was the subject of an article in Global Design News, a new magazine by The Chicago Athenaeum.
David Darling was honored to be selected as a jury member for the 2024 AIA NY Design Awards. Read more about the awards here.
Aidlin Darling Principals Joshua Aidlin and Roslyn Cole have been honored with the San Francisco AIA 2023 Presidential Commendation Award
Aidlin Darling is honored as one of Interior Design’s 2023 Hall of Fame inductees alongside managing director and principal of Gensler, Carlos M. Martínez Flórez, and textile designer and weaver Suzanne Tick.
Joshua Aidlin wrote the foreword in a new book, Experiential Design Schemas, by Mark DeKay and Gail Brager, that offers and analytical dive into how to design for all the senses.
Aidlin Darling Design celebrates 25 years of designing, making, and collaborating with 25th Anniversary Celebration held at AIA San Francisco & The Center for Architecture + Design.
San Francisco Architects names Aidlin Darling Design one of the top Interior Architects in San Francisco
The Architect’s Newspaper publishes “San Francisco’s AIA chapter opens its Center for Architecture + Design,” by Kristine Klein, an article on AIA San Francisco and the Center for Architecture + Design.
John King reviews the AIA San Francisco Headquarters and Center for Architecture + Design for the San Francisco Chronicle.
The AIA San Francisco and Center for Architecture + Design Headquarters has just been awarded one of eight 2023 Record Interior Awards by Architectural Record.
Joshua Aidlin will be teaching a Masterclass, “Designing for the Soul,” on May 19th, 2023 for YINJISPACE in China
Archello names Aidlin Darling Design one of top two architecture firms in San Francisco.
Joshua Aidlin will be a juror at the ADC’s 102nd Annual Awards.
Joshua Aidlin serves a juror at the AIA Washington DC Chapter Design Awards.
Jeff LaBoskey has been promoted to Associate.
David Darling visited Louisiana State University to give a lecture at the College of Art + Design.
High Desert Retreat is featured in Elle Decor Italy.
Terrace House is featured in Architizer.
Art House is featured in Wallpaper*.
High Desert Retreat was named one of Azure Magazine’s Top 10 Home’s of the Year.
High Desert Retreat is featured in Dezeen.
Terrace House is featured in Come Together: The Architecture of Multigenerational Living, published by Gestalten.
Michael Pierry has been promoted to Principal within our studio.
Read about High Desert Retreat in Wallpaper*.
Joshua Aidlin and David Darling are headline presenters at the 2021 Monterey Design Conference.
High Desert Retreat is featured in The New Minimalist Style, a new book by Loft Publications.
The Mill Valley Courtyard Residence is featured in Artists’ Homes: Designing Spaces for Living a Creative Life.
Spaces interviewed Heather Sandy Herbert and Chase Reynolds Ewald about their book – At Home in the Wine Country – which features the Winged Retreat.
High Desert Retreat is featured in Objekt International.
Residential Design profiled Art House and High Desert Retreat as winners of the 2021 RD Architecture Awards.
Lattice House is featured in Interior Design Homes.
Art House, Lattice House, High Desert Retreat, and the Geneva Car Barn & Powerhouse each earned Green Good Design Awards from the Chicago Athenaeum.
The San Francisco Chronicle named Faust Winery one of its top 25 wineries in the Bay Area.
Interior Design featured High Desert Retreat as part of its Best of Year Awards coverage.
The AIA has revealed our design for their new San Francisco headquarters. Read about the space in the San Francisco Chronicle and The Architect’s Newspaper.
Skyhaus and the House of Earth & Sky are featured in 150 New Best of the Best House Ideas, a new book by HarperCollins.
Read about Terrace House and High Desert Retreat, which were both recognized at the 2020 Builder’s Choice Design Awards.
Faust Haus — our newest winery project — is open! Read about it in the San Francisco Chronicle.
Brecon Estate Winery is featured in the San Francisco Chronicle.
The San Francisco Chronicle featured the first phase completion of the Geneva Car Barn & Powerhouse.
High Desert Retreat is on the cover of Architectural Digest Italia.
High Desert Retreat was selected as one of Architectural Record’s Record Houses for 2020.
