JOHN ENRIGHT, PRINCIPAL, AIA

John Enright, AIA is a co-founder and Principal of the Los Angeles-based, Griffin Enright Architects. The firm recently completed the award winning 36,000 sq. ft. St. Thomas the Apostle Education Campus in Los Angeles, CA and has completed a wide range of projects at all scales from installations to residential and institutional projects. They are currently working on a mixed-use project in Venice CA, and a series of projects in China.

John has taught design studios and technology seminars at SCI-Arc (Southern California Institute of Architecture), Syracuse University, The University of Houston, and until recently as an Assistant Professor at the University of Southern California. He is currently the Undergraduate Program Chair at SCI-Arc.  John’s academic research focuses on design and building technology including Building Information Modeling and new digital paradigms as applied to fabrication and construction. An exhibition of his research into the work of Konrad Wachsmann was recently exhibited at the Los Angeles Forum for Architecture and Urban Design. John has received numerous grants including USC’s Advancing Scholarship in the Humanities and Social Sciences Initiative, and an NCARB Grant for the Integration of Practice and the Academy in 2009.

Prior to founding Griffin Enright Architects in 2000 with Margaret Griffin, John worked with Thom Mayne of Morphosis Architects from 1987 to 1999 as project architect on a number of award-winning projects including the Diamond Ranch High School in Pomona, CA and the Hypo-Alpe Adria corporate bank headquarters in Klagenfurt, Austria.

John has recently served on the advisory committee for the national AIA’s Educator Practitioners Network (EPN), and has been appointed to the Los Angeles Mayor’s Design Advisory Panel. John earned a Bachelor of Architecture degree from Syracuse University and a Master of Architecture degree from Columbia University.