Escher GuneWardena Architecture

Architects Frank Escher and Ravi GuneWardena, partners since 1995, use direct, inexpensive means to catapult Los Angeles’s great modernist tradition into the twentyfirst century [...] looking for the poetry of rationalism and making the most of the least

Don Albrecht, curator, National Design Triennial 2003
Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum, New York
Dwell House II video

Firm Profile

Escher GuneWardena’s work has been published nationally and internationally and has received numerous awards. They were one of six architectural firms included in the 2003 National Design Triennial, an overview of current American design. In 2004 they were selected to design the Dwell Home II, a prototype for a sustainable house. They have recently been invited to be part of the 2006 exhibition OPEN HOUSE: Intelligent Living by Design, organized jointly by the Vitra Design Museum (Weil am Rhein, Germany) and Art Center College of Design (Pasadena) to explore the topic of the future house in relation to digital technologies.

Escher GuneWardena’s work addresses issues of sustainability, affordability and the dialogue between form and construction. They seek to establish simple formal manifestations of the complexities of each project, investigating the sublimated characteristics intrinsic to the work itself.
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