The Los Angeles-based Griffin Enright Architects was co-founded by Margaret Griffin, AIA and John Enright, AIA in 2000. Their versatile practice encompasses three areas:  institutional design including master-planning, high-end residential, and conceptual design.  Projects include large-scale institutional and residential commissions to landscape design and gallery installations. The firm fuses interests in innovation, research, and experimentation with the exploration of cultural complexities relative to the built environment.  Their work transcends the traditional scope of architectural practice, underscoring connections to the surrounding urban fabric and landscape by reinforcing existing conditions or creating new ones, allowing urban context, architecture, and landscape to be experienced in new, unanticipated ways.

Griffin Enright’s practice is augmented by their community involvement and ongoing relationships with educational institutions allowing them to straddle the practical and theoretical sides of the profession. John serves on Mayor Villaraigosa’s Design Advisory Board and Margaret is on the LA AIA’s Board of Directors and the City of Santa Monica’s Architectural Review Board. Margaret and John teach design and technology at SCI-Arc (Southern California Institute of Architecture), one of the most cutting-edge architectural schools in the country, where John is currently the Undergraduate Program Chair.

The firm is the recipient of over forty awards for design excellence and has been published and exhibited extensively, both nationally and internationally.  Their project ‘Vertical Garden — Schindler’s Paradox Box’ is part of the permanent collection at the MAK (Museum for Applied Art/Contemporary Art) in Vienna, Austria. 


MARGARET GRIFFIN, PRINCIPAL, AIA

JOHN ENRIGHT, PRINCIPAL, AIA