There are three components to architecture: Structure, space, and surface.

By structure, I am referring to the organizational system and critical relationships that informs and creates architecture. This architecture focuses on this part of the process.

By space, I am referring to the process of definition and subdivision

The surface is the result.

The relationship of the components that make up the organizational structures in these projects are dualistic. In the process of definition, the creation of its antithesis enhances the definition of each individual component. One system defines the other by contrast. The structure of each component is revealed in the contrast between them. Each extreme condition lies in contrast to its neutral antitheses. It is the objective of these projects to stretch that condition to the extreme; to heighten this condition creating a dialectic.

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John Lumsden

John Lumsden received a Bachelor of Architecture from the University of Southern California and began working at DMJM in 1988. As a member of the design department. he had the opportunity to work on a variety of architectural typologies from airports and laboratories, to hotels and university buildings. John completed several projects as project designer including the School of Social and Behavioral Sciences Building at Cal State University San Bernardino, and the Long Beach Water Treatment Plant Laboratory and Administration Building.

John currently work at AJLA. As a founding member and partner in 1994, John worked on a number of design competitions as an active member of the design team, and recently designed two mid-rise commercial office buildings.