Date: January 23, 2009
Margaret Griffin is founding partner of the Los Angeles-based firm Griffin Enright Architects, established in 2000. Griffin Enright Architects' practice fuses interests in innovation and experimentation with a desire to explore cultural complexities relative to the built environment. Its versatile practice includes projects ranging from large-scale commercial and residential commissions to furniture design and gallery installations. The work moves beyond the traditional scope of architectural practice, underscoring connections with the surrounding urban fabric and landscape by reinforcing existing conditions or creating new ones that allow architecture, urban context and landscape to be experienced in new ways. Griffin Enright's comprehensive approach to design depends on the simultaneous blurring and exploitation of distinctions between inside/outside, built form/landscape, site/urban context and theory/practice. The firm is the recipient of numerous awards for design excellence including, most recently, the 2006 American Architecture Award from the Chicago Athenaeum.
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