DANIELLE

Danielle Duryea is the Principal Architect and Founding Partner of BNDL Architecture. She spent over a decade at Gehry Partners as an Associate and Project Designer, leading major cultural projects in France for Fondation Louis Vuitton, as well as work in the Middle East and on Meta’s creative offices. Danielle holds a Master of Architecture from Yale and a Bachelor of Architecture from the University of Florida.

KAVEH

Kaveh Arbab is the Managing Director and Founding Partner of BNDL Architecture. He previously worked at Gehry Partners, and Hodgetts + Fung. At Gehry’s office, he contributed to the design and documentation of Meta’s MPK21 headquarters. Kaveh holds a Master of Architecture from UCLA and a Bachelor of Science in Architecture from The Ohio State University.

Why BNDL?

There is a beach in Santa Barbara called Jalama beach. Jalama is an adaptation of the native Chumash word ‘Xalam’ which translated literally, means ‘bundle.’ Jalama beach was a central village in the Chumash nation where people from surrounding villages would gather or ‘bundle’ together. Xalam meant many things to them, not only could it mean a bundle of sticks, it meant a gathering of ideas, peoples, stories, foods, goods, or a bundle of thatch and timber that form the structures in which they congregated.

We like what this word meant to the Chumash and wanted to reflect this idea in our name, BNDL.