ERW Design is a multi-disciplinary firm with projects that include architecture, site and landscape design, interiors, and exhibitions.
While our work is stylistically diverse, our projects share a common approach in their concern for the unfolding of interior and exterior space. Our work addresses issues of flow, sequence, and destination - the choreography of structures, vistas, and routes.
We are especially attuned to opportunities for integrating architecture and landscape. We formulate sequences from interior to exterior: main structures, transition spaces - terraces, paths, courtyards - and gardens and accessory structures.
In a studio-like atmosphere, we approach each project with attention to its unique conditions, and develop solutions that reflect and interpret the program, site, and budget as outlined by our client. These solutions, both aesthetic and tectonic, are cultivated to form a strategy of 'quiet architecture,' and a sense of inevitability.
Elaine René-Weissman is an architect whose education and work experience reflects her background in the arts. She studied painting and art history, and worked in the applied arts in New York City, including theater design. The transition to architecture established a course of work that was utilitarian, full-scale, and collective in spirit. She received a Master of Architecture from the Yale School of Architecture in 1988, earning the Sielaff Award, and a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the School of Visual Arts, New York City, studying with artists Richard Artschwager and Bruce Boice, and art historian Douglas Crimp.
ERW Design associated with Hsuan-ying Chou, Architect on The Boone Children's Gallery, Master Planning at The Children's Center at Caltech, and Ecole Claire Fontaine. Hiroyuki Yamamoto is full time staff member at ERW Design. Numerous professional consultants have participated our projects, including architect Phillip Collins.
We encourage and welcome our clients' participation in the development of their projects, and our services are calibrated to suit their requirements. We provide general design services, as well as specifically tailored stand-alone services, such as Master Planning, facility services, and design consulting.
A number of our projects have been published in the LA Times, W magazine, and House and Garden magazine. The following are some of our projects to date:
RESIDENTIAL
Cliffside Drive House, Malibu, CA
Heathercliff Mobile Home, Malibu, CA
Rambla Vista House, Malibu, CA
Citrus Avenue House and Gardens, Los Angeles, CA
Loft House, Malibu, CA
Patrician Way House+ Gardens, Pasadena, CA
R+S Office Library, Beverly Hills, CA
De La Sol Studio, Albuquerque, NM
Studio Sofield, Los Angeles, CA
San Remo House, Pacific Palisades, CA
Beach House, Westhampton, NY
June House, Hancock Park, CA
LANDSCAPE AND GARDENS
Path Gardens, Malibu, CA
Bienveneda Gardens + Porch, Pacific Palisades, CA
Pastel Place Gardens, Studio City, CA
Barrington Condo. Gardens, Los Angeles, CA
Homewood Road House + Gardens, Brentwood, CA
Windsor Blvd. Porch + Gardens, Los Angeles, CA
Siena Way Gardens, Bel Air, CA
Doheny Road Pool + Gardens, West Hollywood, CA
Edge Pool + Gardens, Los Angeles, CA
Cashmere Gardens, Los Angeles, CA
INSTITUTIONAL & COMMUNITY
Palisades Glacier Mountain Hut, Bishop, CA
The Children's Center at Caltech, Pasadena, CA
Ecole Claire Fontaine, Venice, CA
Kid Concepts, USA, Torrance, CA
Korean Organizations Association, Los Angeles, CA
Made in California: NOW, LACMA, Los Angeles, CA
Agricultural Cornucopia, Malibu, CA
Malibu High School Auditorium, Malibu, CA
Malibu High School Courtyard, Malibu, CA
Zambonini Exhibition, Yale University, New Haven, CT
