Aidlin Darling Design
Benjamin Damron is a Senior Architect at Aidlin Darling Design, a position held since January 2015. Additionally, Benjamin contributes as a part-time faculty instructor at the Academy of Art University since July 2012. Prior experience includes serving as an Associate at SOM from March 2010 to December 2014, and as a Senior Managing Designer at sand studios from October 2007 to March 2010. Benjamin's career began at morphosis architects, where responsibilities included senior design from May 1999 to April 2007. Educational qualifications include a Bachelor of Architecture (BArch) degree from Ball State University, completed between 1993 and 1999.
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Aidlin Darling Design
With a shared interest in exploring design across a wide range of scales, programs, and disciplines, partners Joshua Aidlin and David Darling started Aidlin Darling Design around a woodshop in 1997. With an emphasis on designing for all of the senses they have cultivated a diverse and collaborative studio that acts as the creative hub for an extended network of builders, fabricators, artists, engineers, chefs, and other collaborators. The firm’s work explores a closely held conviction that design can enlighten the human spirit by engaging all of the senses. This notion is reflected in a diverse range of projects including a restaurant in the new SFMOMA, a 160,000 square foot LEED Gold brewery in San Leandro, and Stanford University’s Windhover Contemplative Center - a non-denominational art chapel that serves as a refuge for students and faculty. Recent work includes projects as far away as Doha Qatar and Hong Kong, and as diverse as a high school in Santa Rosa, a Cultural Arts Center in San Francisco, and several wineries that push the boundaries of sustainability in agriculture and building. In recent years, the firm has garnered over 100 regional, national, and international awards including the Smithsonian’s Cooper- Hewitt’s 2013 National Design Award for their body of work, a James Beard Award, five American Architecture Awards from the Chicago Athenaeum, two International Civic Trust Awards, and several regional and national awards from the AIA, IIDA, and ASLA.