Gutman Associates is the Los Angeles practice of B. Gutman, AIA — architect, planner and specification writer, registered in California, Massachusetts and New York.
Established in Boston in 1985 and in Los Angeles since 1990, the practice spans commercial, residential, institutional and industrial work — with particular depth in hillside construction, laboratories, and the discipline of the construction documents themselves.
From 1998 to 2022, senior architectural, structural and civil systems engineer and specification writer at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Teaching appointments at Harvard, MIT, and Brandeis University. Educated at UCLA (Master of Architecture), SCI-Arc, and the Royal Academy of Fine Art, Stockholm.
194,600 sf seven-story office building with auditorium, built into a hillside. LEED Silver, 2009.
Pasadena, CA15,000 sf clean-room laboratory constructed into a hillside. LEED Silver, 2004.
Pasadena, CARenovation of the Music Building, public main entrance, and West Studio Gate.
Burbank, CATennis, gymnastics and cycling venues; athlete arrival center at LAX, for the LAOOC.
Los Angeles, CAMuseum renovation and addition on Wilshire Boulevard.
Los Angeles, CAPhotovoltaic parking shade structures and VIP shade structure — active solar with space frame.
Jeddah, Saudi ArabiaLaw offices for the Harvard Law School internship program.
Jamaica Plain, MAHyperbaric chamber, medical suites and offices.
Los Angeles, CAThe practice remains open to select consultation — specifications, contract administration, arbitration and mediation, and hillside design.
Correspondence by email is preferred. Inquiries receive a reply within a few days.
bgutman@ga-architecture.com