Paul Danna

Paul Danna, AIA
Born St. Louis, Missouri
Nationality American
Alma mater University of Michigan
Harvard GSD
Occupation Architect
Awards James Templeton Kelly Prize; Skidmore, Owings & Merrill Traveling Fellowship
Practice SOM
Buildings Korea Development Bank Headquarters, Seoul; RAND Corporation Headquarters, Santa Monica; LAPD Headquarters, Los Angeles

Paul Danna, AIA, is a registered architect living and residing in Los Angeles. Danna was born and raised in St. Louis, Missouri. He graduated from the University of Michigan, and was awarded an internship with the Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies. He earned his Master of Architecture degree from the Harvard University Graduate School of Design, and while a graduate student he was awarded the James Templeton Kelly Prize.

Upon completion of his degree, Danna was also awarded the Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM) Traveling Fellowship for design excellence. Early in his career, Danna worked with SOM, Houston & Los Angeles; I.M. Pei & Partners, New York; Machado Silvetti, Boston, MA; and Krueck & Olsen, Chicago, IL (now Krueck + Sexton), KMJR, and AECOM. He was a principle of DMJM Design of Los Angeles from 1994[1] and architect of the proposed RAND headquarters in Santa Monica (2003).[2]

Buildings attributed to Danna include the Los Angeles Police Department Headquarters building (by AECOM, 2009);[3] Loyola Marymount University William H. Hannon Library, Los Angeles; RAND Headquarters building, Santa Monica; and Korea Development Bank, Seoul.

References

,[4] Architects Newspaper, 1 December 2012
[5] "New Shop for Top Cops", World Architecture News, 17 March 2009
[6] Los Angeles Times, "LAPD has hard time leaving home," 15 March 2009, (DMJM/AECOM Design)
[7] Work of Rodolfo Machado and Jorge Silvetti
[8] LA Dream Team, Los Angeles Business Journal, August 2007

  1. ↑ "Design Chief at Architect Firm DMJM Steps Down". The Los Angeles Times. October 28, 1998. Retrieved October 31, 2014.
  2. ↑ Morris Newman (January 8, 2003). "COMMERCIAL REAL ESTATE; RAND vs. Santa Monica: the New Headquarters". The New York Times. Retrieved October 31, 2014.
  3. ↑ "A neighborly new police headquarters". The Los Angeles Times. October 24, 2009. Retrieved October 31, 2014.
  4. ↑ "SOM Bets on Los Angeles Resurgence",
  5. ↑ New Shop for Top Cops, World Architecture News, 17 March 2009
  6. ↑ LAPD Has a Hard Time Leaving Home,Los Angeles Times
  7. ↑ Unprecedented Realism: The Architecture of Machado and Silvetti, By K. Michael Hays, Rodolfo Machado, Jorge Silvetti Published by Princeton Architectural Press, 1996, ISBN 0-910413-60-6, ISBN 978-0-910413-60-2
  8. ↑ Los Angeles Business Journal, "Dream Teams Shape Los Angeles Skyline," by Daniel Miller, August 27, 2007


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