A full-service firm within the organization, this group is staffed by licensed architects and design professionals. Architecture & Planning provides predevelopment, feasibility analysis, project design, entitlement planning, and construction management services.

LACDC has a highly trained professional staff with extensive experience in both new construction and renovation. The full scope of LACDC’s architectural services include:

• Project Design
• Construction Documentation and Construction Administration
• Feasibility Analysis
• Conceptual Design Proposal Packages
• Entitlements
• Construction Management

LACDC approaches it work with a community perspective, balancing the need for safe and quality housing with the responsibility to preserve and improve our built environment, all within the constraints of limited available funding.

Our work is characterized by design excellence, with an emphasis on client and end-user participation in the creative and planning process. The result is an inspired design solution, which instills a sense of ownership and empowerment within the community, and helps to ensure the long-term sustainability and maintenance of the implemented project. Our in-depth knowledge of the development process and a full understanding of post-occupancy and property management issues inform the early programming efforts in balancing the projects’ practical, aesthetic, budgetary, and long-term durability concerns.