BNDL

KAVEH

Kaveh is the Managing Director and founding partner of BNDL Design Studio which he opened in 2018. Kaveh is a Designer who has worked for major Architecture firms in Los Angeles such as the office of Frank Gehry, Hodgetts + Fung and Brooks & Scarpa.  At Gehry Partners, Kaveh spent two years working on schematic design and construction documents for the MPK21 Facebook headquarters where Mark Zuckerburg's office is located in Menlo Park, CA. Kaveh holds a Master's degree in Architecture from the UCLA school of Architecture & Urban Design and a Bachelor's of Science in Architecture from the Ohio State University Knowlton School of Architecture. 

DANIELLE

Danielle is the Design Director AND PARTNER at BNDL Design Studio. Danielle holds a Master’s of Architecture from Yale university and a Bachelor’s of architecture from the University of Florida. She comes with 11 years of experience as an associate and project Designer at Frank Gehry’s architecture firm. At Gehry Partners, Danielle was the team leader on major cultural projects in France for Foundation Louis Vuitton, she also worked on major cultural projects in the Middle East and on the creative offices for Facebook (Meta).

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’ (bundle) 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.