DNM Architecture

DNM Architecture is a full-service practice in Sausalito, California, founded in 1999 by David Marlatt, who took a master of architecture at Georgia Institute of Technology in 1982 and spent most of the 1990s leading Graphisoft’s US office. The firm works across the San Francisco Bay Area on houses, multi-family buildings and accessory dwelling units.

Its process starts from listening to the client and the site, then balances function, budget, codes and context with in-house energy modelling; the practice is a signatory to the AIA 2030 Commitment and has LEED projects behind it. Work includes the Sausalito Modern Update, a Mediterranean house remodelled by the bay, hillside houses in Marin County. In West Africa, DNM designed the Jaza Solar Hubs with Nonfiction, field-assembled power centres for off-grid Nigerian communities.