Working in the public realm brings the responsibility to build places that transcend their own time. Our bias is to look for the universal before the circumstantial; to find a balance between continuity and change; and to discover and express relationships that grow from the meaning of the place and the techniques of construction.

Dennis McFadden is Design Principal at Anshen+Allen Los Angeles. He received a Bachelor of Science from the University of Southern California, and a Master of Architecture from Princeton University. Prior to joining Anshen+Allen in 1987 , his background included a variety of institutional, commercial and multi-family housing projects.

As Senior Designer, Mr. McFadden is responsible for the design of the Shiley Eye Center and the Campus Services Complex, both at the University of California, San Diego; High Desert Medical Center in Lancaster, California; Bourns Hall College of Engineering at the University of California, Riverside; and the Millard Sheets Art Center at Scripps College. Projects currently in construction include the Drucker Graduate School of Management at the Claremont Colleges and the College of Engineering at the University of Iowa.

Dennis McFadden's work at Anshen+Allen Los Angeles has been published in Architecture magazine, the Italian publication L'Arca, and the AWA International Yearbook, and has received numerous design awards, including local, state and national AIA Honor Awards for Bourns Hall College of Engineering. He has also served as a visiting critic at USC, UCLA, and SCI-Arc.

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