ABOUT BNDL ARCHITECTURE

BNDL (short for Bundle) Architecture is an Architecture & Interior Design office owned and operated by two licensed Architects, Danielle Duryea & Kaveh Arbab. Based in the beautiful Lunada Bay in Palos Verdes Estates (Los Angeles County), BNDL focuses on custom residential and commercial design. BNDL has designed and permitted projects in over 20 jurisdictions in the Southern California Area as well as in South Dakota, Colorado, Arizona, and Nevada.

MEET THE BNDL TEAM

Danielle Duryea, AIA

Principal Architect & Founding Partner

Danielle is a licensed Architect in the state of California. She spent over a decade at Gehry Partners as an Associate and Project Designer, leading major cultural projects in France for the LVMH Foundation, multiple concert hall designs, as well as work in the Middle East and on Meta’s (Facebook) creative offices. Danielle holds a Master of Architecture from Yale University and a Bachelor of Architecture from the University of Florida, where she graduated Magna Cum Laude.

Kaveh Arbab, AIA

Principal Architect & Founding Partner

Kaveh is a licensed Architect in the state of California. He previously worked at Gehry Partners, Hodgetts + Fung, and WHY Architecture. At Gehry’s office, he contributed to the design and construction documentation of Meta’s MPK21 headquarters. At Hodgetts and Fung, Kaveh contributed to the design of the Nashville Ascend Amphitheater. At WHY Architecture, Kaveh was the lead designer on the Samurai Armor exhibit at LACMA. Kaveh holds a Master of Architecture from UCLA and a Bachelor of Science in Architecture from The Ohio State University, where he graduated with Honors.

ALEXANDER SEXSMITH, AIA

Senior Project Architect

Alex has a degree in Art History from Northwestern University and completed his Master’s of Architecture at the Southern California Institute of Architecture in 2005. Almost 20 years since, he has practiced architecture at corporate and boutique firms, in LA and abroad, learning from different types of practice, on a range of institutional and residential projects. He has worked on new construction, multi-phase projects, and transformative reuse of existing buildings and campuses. He is licensed to practice in California, Arizona, New Mexico, and Colorado, and is nationally board-certified (NCARB).

BNDL, what does it mean?

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.

These same ideas are relevant to modern architecture and construction. In order to make a building, many people must work together to bring different ideas and materials in to one coherent place.

“Many parts, one place.”