Dean Larkin Design, Founded in 1999, is a Los Angeles-based architectural firm led by Dean Larkin AIA. Educated at USC and with a formative experience at Landry Design Group, Dean established a practice dedicated to contemporary residential work that engages climate, site and lifestyle. The firm philosophy emphasizes architecture as a spatial experience-layering light, form, and materiality to dissolve boundaries between indoor and outdoor. Eschewing imposed symmetry, DLD pursues complexity that reads as effortless, creating structures that both anchor and adapt to their context. With a mastery of traditional detailing and Innovation in sustainable and resilient systems, the firm leverages each sites full potential-whether coastal, desert, mountain or urban-while tailoring each design to the clients specific vision and lifestyle. Over two decades DLD has built a reputation for homes filled with transformative spaces that both elevate and enhance the users experience