Darin Johnstone is a Los Angeles based architect and educator. With 22 years of experience in the field of architecture and 12 years spent educating young architects, Darin offers a unique perspective at the nexus between education and practice.
The djA practice engages Architecture as an overarching discipline accepting a wide range of design challenges including: architecture, urban planning, landscape design, interior design, furniture design, and installation projects. The practice recently completed a new building renovation to house Art Center College of Design’s Fine Art and Illustration departments in South Pasadena and a new bar / arcade ‘EightyTwo’ in the Arts District in Downtown Los Angeles.
Darin is a Design and Visual Studies faculty member at the Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI-Arc) where he has taught since 2002. Darin has been the director of Design Immersion Days (DID), SCI-Arc's introduction to design program for high school students, since 2010.
Darin established djA (darin johnstone Architecture) in 2004. Darin is a founding member of the architectural design collaborative flux which began in 1999 and was featured in Arc Record II in January 2006.
Darin's work has been published in Architectural Record, LA Architect, LA Weekly, Los Angeles Magazine, Metalocus, 306090, 25 underbara hem, AD Russia, Surface magazine and many Los Angeles papers, magazines and design / lifestyle blogs. In 2006 LA Architect featured djA as one of the "10 to watch" in Los Angeles. Darin has received various awards, including an AIA award for the installation 'drop' and multiple grants for the DID program he directs at SCI-Arc. Darin received his Bachelor of Architecture from California State Polytechnic University of Pomona in 1993 and a Master of Science in Advanced Architectural Design from Columbia University in 1995.
