25+ years of professional experience
Douglas Peters is more than an architect, '>'. He is interested in solving problems/puzzles via creative and straight forward solutions
He continually hears from colleagues, consultants, contractors, and clients that they consider him a trusted friend and a service-oriented professional.
He has developed strengths in all phases of design and management from large to small-scale commercial (building and interiors), cultural, single-family/multi-family residential projects, and planning projects.
Bringing Midwestern values, while treating each project as if it were his own property. Listening to improve solutions and bring value.
overview:
- AIA (American Institute of Architects)
- LEED-AP (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design - Accredited Professional)
Douglas Peters is a licensed Architect in the State of California.
This Experience is within a variety of office sizes: his own office (DP>a), in a single proprietor's office (Bondanelli and Assoc), a mid-sized firm as an Associate (DesignARC), and working for larger firms (RTKL) and (Gensler where I was a Senior Associate and Co-Director of the LA Office's Design Realization).
project types
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Office Buildings + Interiors:
- Headquarter Buildings: IMAX, Hulu
- Broadcast Centers: Edit Bays, Broadcast Booths, Sound Stages, Satellites; KCET, Time Warner's Sports Broadcast;
- Studios: Sound and Photography Stages; Siren Studios, West Adams Artist Studio
- Workplace Interiors (Tenant Improvements): Electronic Arts/LA, NBC Universal, Samsung R+D/SF , Team Mazda, plus many others
Cultural Projects:
- Amphitheaters/Live Music: 12,000 seat FivePoint/LiveNation Amphitheater/Irvine, Ontario Place Live Nation Festival 55 AC Grounds/Toronto
- Museums: Shanghai Science and Industry Museum, and Children's Museum
Hotel Projects:
- Boutique Hotel: 95 Rooms with Banquet Hall, Meeting Rooms, and Restaurants/Ventura
- Sheraton ITC Welcomgroup Hotel: 370 Rooms with Banquet Hall, 5 star accommodations/Mumbai
Retail Projects:
- Retail Centers & Malls: OCGP Retail Center, Century City Mall Renovation (RTKL), Gwinnett Place Mall Renovation/Atlanta, Block 34 Mall/Las Vegas,
- Theaters: Edwards 23 with IMAX Cinema, IMAX Screen Rooms
- Retail Spaces and Restaurants: Tres Margaritas (Kay 'n Dave's), John O'Groats, WHSmith Locations
Planning Projects:
- Museums and Cultural Venues: OCGP Cultural Terrace/Irvine
- Studios: Sunset Media Village/Hollywood
- Mixed Use District Planning: Orange County Great Park/Irvine, Eko Atlantic/Nigeria, Kunigan Persada/Jakarta
- Multi-Family and Single Family Communities: Orange County Great Park/Irvine, and many throughout Palm Springs
Residential Projects:
- High Density/Mixed Use: Towers, 30 + Stories, Eko Atlantic/Nigeria, Transit-Oriented Developments (TOD), Mocking Bird Station/Dallas.
- Mid Density: 12-60 DU/AC Town-homes, Lofts, and Flats
- Single Family: Many unique and award winning residences throughout California
project locations
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awards/exhibits
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- ENR (Engineering News Record) California’s Best Projects 2016-
Gensler, IMAX West Coast Headquarters
- California Council AIA, Merit Award-
DesignARC, Palm Springs Modern Homes
- Orange County Chapter AIA, Merit Award-
DesignARC, Falcon House
- Greater Dallas Planning Council, Urban Design Award-
RTKL, Mockingbird Station
- Dallas Chapter AIA Honor Award-
RTKL, Mockingbird Station
- Enlightened Development Exhibition at A+D Museum
DesignARC, Palm Springs Modern Homes
publications
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- Schindler by MAK (Book)
Douglas Peters, Schindler’s Erlick/Bieber Residence
- LA Times, OC Register, KTLA, KABC
Gensler, FivePoint/Live Nation Temporary Amphitheater
Gensler, Hulu Headquarters
Gensler, KCET Broadcast Facility
- Los Angeles Times (Cover)
DesignARC, Bethany Square Mixed-Use
- LA Architect Magazine (Cover)
RTKL, Shanghai Science Museum
- Metropolitan Home
DesignARC, Palm Springs Modern Homes Housing
- Architectural Record
DesignARC, Palm Springs Modern Homes Housing
- Architectural Digest
DesignARC, Apple Oaks
- Los Angeles Times
DesignARC, 48@Arena
- Urban Spaces ULI
RTKL, Shanghai Science Museum
work in film
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- Schindler's Hauser Houses
Douglas Peters, Schindler’s Erlick/Bieber Residence
- Ultraviolet
RTKL, Shanghai Science Museum
- Other
Douglas has also designed sets, props, and graphics for the movie “The Effects of Magic”; starring the Carradine brothers, Melinda Dillon, and Kathy Bates. One of those sets was later used in the Coen brother’s movie, the "Big Lebowski" theater scene filmed at the Ivar theater, Hollywood. Douglas uses this experience in his designs for studios and graphic design commissions.
software skills
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BEGINNER
INTERMEDIATE
EXPERT
REVIT (2010- )
VECTORWORKS (1999- )
SKETCHUP (2004- )
AUTOCAD (1995- )
MICROSTATION (1996-1999)
FORMZ (1995- )
ILLUSTRATOR (1995- )
PHOTOSHOP (1995- )
INDESIGN (1999- )
MUSE (2014- )
PREMIERE (1995- )
AFTER EFFECTS (2013- )
MICROSOFT PROJECTS
WORD
EXCEL
resume:
Thank you to each Client, Engineer, Contractor, Team member, and Colleague/Office.
Douglas has developed strengths in all phases of Architectural design and management from large to small-scale commercial, cultural, single-family/multi-family residential projects, and planning projects. His strengths also include Graphic Design, Set Design, and Furniture Design.
Principal of Sunset Media Village Master Plan. A new 130,000 sq.ft. Media Campus on a nearly 2 acre site in the heart of Hollywood. The project would feature an automated, robotic 180 car garage, with new photo studios, sound stage, and recording studios.
Principal of Siren Studios@Orange. A tenant improvement and Change of Use to Sound Stage and Warehouse. The interior improvement consisted of making the existing 14,000 sq.ft single-story building ADA compliant via new exiting, new ramps, and new restrooms.
Principal of West Adams Artist Studio. A single-story addition that is married to an existing masonry building. North light is channeled into the studio spaces via new saw-tooth roofs. Required Zoning Modifications which were applied for and approved.
Principal of several single-family and duplex residential projects within Los Angeles, Santa Monica, Culver City, and within the states of Michigan and Indiana.
Senior Associate
Project Architect
04.2011 to 07.2017
Appointed as Co-Director of Design Realization for the Los Angeles office requiring auditing of all Projects for Code Compliance, Constructability, Design and Management Challenges, along with Mentoring of all Gensler LA's nearly 600 employees.
Appointed as an Associate the first year of employment and Senior Associate the second year. Also appointed to the following committees: Design and Delivery, Digital Design, Revit Leaders, Senior Technical Leaders, Information Technology, Design Manager Leaders
Project Architect/Project Manager for the Orange County Great Park Master Plan; Designer of the Developer's 50,000 sq.ft. office building; Pedestrian/Bike Bridge as a gateway to the project; 12,000 seat Amphitheater; Master Plan.
Project Architect/Designer of new Shell/Core + TI for IMAX's West Coast award winning HQ, approx. 65,000 gross sq. ft. with both a 75 and 40 seat theater, film warehouse, 70 mm film splicing, scanning, editing, and distribution, and workplace.
Project Architect of Hulu's new 80,000 sq. ft. headquarters, which included a 1,200 sq. ft. hole cut within an existing high-rise to connect floors via a connecting stairs and bleachers. This also included editing bays and an insert studio for original content and post production.
Project Architect of KCET's new 55,000 sq. ft. broadcast facility taking two floors of a high-rise building in Burbank, CA. This required an 1,800 sq. ft. hole cut in the 6th floor to allow for a box within a box Broadcast studio to be inserted.
Project Architect/Space Planning Designer for NBC Universal's Term Deal Writers, Time Warner Cable's Regional Sports Broadcast/El Segundo, Samsung Research and Design Facility/San Francisco, and adverting agency The Garage-Team Mazda-WPP/ Costa Mesa.
Resigned from Gensler to focus on strengthen personal practice, initiate several creative endeavors, and help my family with several family emergencies.
Associate
Project Architect/Designer
07.1999 to 02.2009
Project Architect for the Commercial Project Siren Studios, a four-story, with a high eighteen-foot floor-to-floor photo studio on Sunset Blvd. in Hollywood. The first American Natural Light Studio which utilizes ETFE film cushions (Beijing 2008 Olympics' "Water Cube").
Project Architect and Designer of more than a half million square feet of Multi-Family (nearly a thousand units) and Mixed-Use projects in California, including several that were honored with California AIA Awards and featured in Architectural Record magazine.
Project Architect and Designer of custom Single-Family residences in cities throughout California, featuring Beach houses, experimental Pre-Fab residences, and Estates. Many obtaining design awards. This work included designing Mechanical, Electrical, and Civil systems.
Associate, managed the staffing of the entire Los Angeles office, along with creating the CAD layering and drawing standards for both the Los Angeles and Santa Barbara offices. Also introduced the office to SketchUp, version 4, now being used office wide. Introduced and coordinated an office-wide visioning and branding retreat.
Associate, created a financial fee tracking system to allow the staff to see their own progress and efficiency compared to the project goals, hour by hour. This was one major factor allowing the Los Angeles office to have its first profitable year.
Departed from DesignARC to create a solution based collaborative practice of Architecture with clients, contractors, consultants, and building officials.
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DesignARC
Associate 07.1999 to 02.2009
Project Designer/Designer
10.1996 to 07.1999
Design and documentation of the exterior façade of the complex form for the Shanghai Science and Industry Museum, a one-million square foot museum located in the Pudong district of Shanghai, China.
Project Designer of several retail mall complexes, such as Las Vegas Block 34, Scheme 1, at the end of the Fremont Street Experience. And mall renovations, such as the Gwinnett Mall; Century City Mall expansion; and Olympic Station in Hong Kong, China.
Design and documentation of Sheraton Hotel in Mumbai, India and the Schematic Design of Mockingbird Station, a Mixed-Use and Rehab project in Dallas, along with furniture and kiosks for the mixed-use project Mall Ciputra (Citraland) in Jakarta, Indonesia.
Resigned from RTKL to broaden my project experience, adding single-family residential along with smaller scale commercial projects, while adding additional construction type experience, and new skills in the broader profession.
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RTKL
Designer 10.1996 to 07.1999
Set Design
Designer 05.1996 to 10.1996
Designed and drafted sets and props for the movie "The Effects of Magic" (Chuck Martinez Productions); starring the Carradine Brothers, Melinda Dillon, and Kathy Bates.
The proscenium arch used in the production to enhance the location at the Ivar Theater was scouted and later used by the Cohen Brothers team when in production of their classic movie the Big Lebowski; starring Jeff Bridges, John Goodman, Steve Buscemi, Philip Seymour Hoffman.
Designer
02.1995 to 09.1995
Designer for a Tenant Improvement for a clothing store located and built along trendy Robertson Blvd., along with Mulholland corridor residence and a Child Daycare building on the campus of a new Lancaster Senior Housing Development.
Resigned from Bondanelli and Associates to pursue Graduate studies at SCI_Arc (Southern California Institute of Architecture.
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Bondenalli
Designer 02.1995 to 09.1995
Southern California Institute of Architecture,
Marina del Rey, CA
Graduate Program
09.1995 to 04.1996
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College of Architecture and Planning at Ball State University,
Muncie, IN
BSED in Architecture
09.1991 to 12.1994
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foundations:
balance & cooperation
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process
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LISTEN + OBSERVE + INVESTIGATE + MEASURE + TRANSLATE + DOCUMENT
EQUALS
THE CLIENT'S STORY
How does one SEE architecture?
By how a structure
TOUCHES the EARTH and SKY
How does one FEEL architecture?
By how one
TOUCHES the STRUCTURE and SPACE
How does one EXPERIENCE architecture?
By how a space
TOUCHES the HEART and MIND
research
optimism
ambition
persistence
focus
expression
Douglas is seeking a position of growth and leadership within a collaborative Los Angeles office that solves a variety of design challenges.
A position that allows sharing his experience with talented staff, giving back to the profession that sustains him, along with finding new exciting designs and project type challenges.
He is seeking an office culture that embraces and encourages the generalist architect, an architect that has skills in Design, Management, Technical, and Environmental Performance, along with a culture that reinforces the Quality of Design and Documentation.
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DOUGLAS PETERS>architect
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