About
KFA Reshapes LA by Designing Great Places Where People Flourish
Our Firm
KFA is a Los Angeles based architecture firm with 50 years of experience delivering housing, campus, civic, and mixed use projects across Southern California. The firm brings expertise in affordable and supportive housing, adaptive reuse, and urban infill, alongside work in education, culture, landscape architecture, and community focused development. KFA’s studio culture values collaboration, open dialogue, and shared problem solving. Teams work closely with clients, consultants, and agencies to shape clear designs and guide projects through entitlements, approvals, and construction. The firm is committed to creating places that support daily life, respond to context, and strengthen the communities we serve.
Our Culture
We strive to create an environment where people can do their best work. Our teams are collaborative and supportive, encouraging open dialogue, shared problem solving, and hands-on engagement. Our Culver City office is an energetic hub for collaboration and connection. Diversity, equity, and inclusion are integral to how we work, with women leading across the firm and strong representation from a range of racial and cultural backgrounds that shape our culture and inform responsive design for the communities we serve. Everyone at KFA has opportunities for growth, with multiple paths to leadership that reflect individual strengths and interests.
Our Approach
KFA approaches each project through close collaboration, clear communication, and a strong understanding of client goals, site context, and community needs. Our teams work in an open studio environment where ideas are shared, tested, and refined together. We listen carefully, develop a clear direction early, and balance design ambition with practical execution. From planning and entitlements through construction, we focus on clarity, coordination, and follow through. Our experience across housing, campuses, civic, and mixed use work allows us to tailor our process to each project. The result is architecture that functions well, responds to place, and supports long term value for clients and communities.
Our Vision
We see every project enhancing its community, contributing to a healthy, dignified, connected, and beautiful Los Angeles.
We see exceptional design as a synthesis of our thoughtfulness, experience, and skill.
We see staff who are actively encouraged to grow professionally while maintaining a work / life balance.
We see existing buildings with revitalized usefulness and beauty.
We see teams supported by robust training, mentorship, standards, and tools.
We see our clients’ goals realized through listening and collaboration.
We see equity in our profession.
We see solutions to the affordable housing crisis in Southern California.
We see a diverse firm that resembles our city and that attracts talented, energetic and open-minded people.
We see a profitable, efficient, and agile firm with abundant work.
Our Numbers
Founded in 1975
83 employees
42% of eligible architectural staff are licensed
15% of employees have been at KFA for more than 10 years
Architectural staff: 57% female, and 70% female senior management
Minority staff: 40% overall, and 50% minority senior management