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At the Society of College & University Planning’s national conference, Aidlin Darling Principal Kent Chiang spoke on a panel about “Supporting Student Resilience,” centered on the UVA Contemplative Commons as a case study. The panelists included Alice J. Raucher, Architect for the University of Virginia; Nicole Thomas, Contemplative Commons Director; and Joseph Celentano, Principal, VMDO Architects.

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.

Laing Chung, Melinda Turner and John Zacherle have been promoted to Associates within our studio.

ADC Annual Awards nominate Roslyn Cole to jury the Architecture, Interior, and Environmental Design categories.

On Thursday, November 14th, Joshua Aidlin and Adam Rouse discuss the High Desert Retreat monograph with Zahid Sardar at the Center for Architecture + Design.

Joshua Aidlin will jury the Architect’s Newspaper 2024 Best of Design Awards. Learn about the full panel of jurors here.

Joshua Aidlin spoke on a panel hosted by the San Francisco Magazine on the future of design and architecture, 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.

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.

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.”

At the University of Miami, David Darling delivers a lecture on materiality, environmental stewardship, and cultivating our studio’s ethos.

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.

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.

Joshua Aidlin will be teaching a Masterclass, “Designing for the Soul,” on May 19th, 2023 for YINJISPACE in China

Jeff LaBoskey has been promoted to Associate.

Terrace House is featured in Architizer

High Desert Retreat was named one of Azure Magazine’s Top 10 Home’s of the Year.

Michael Pierry has been promoted to Principal within our studio. 

Residential Design profiled Art House and High Desert Retreat as winners of the 2021 RD Architecture Awards. 

Art House, Lattice House, High Desert Retreat, and the Geneva Car Barn & Powerhouse each won Green Good Design Awards from the Chicago Athenaeum.

We are honored to be named Contract Magazine’s 2020 Designers of the Year! Read the article and learn more about our studio as captured in Contract’s video.