Aidlin Darling Design
Chris DeHenzel is a California licensed architect with extensive experience in architectural design. Currently serving as an Associate at Aidlin Darling Design since July 2018, Chris previously held the position of Senior Designer at WRNS Studio and worked as a Senior Architectural Designer at Skidmore Owings & Merrill LLP from April 2014 to June 2018. Prior experience includes roles as a Project Designer at INTERSTICE Architects, John K. Branner Fellow at UC Berkeley, Designer at Studio27 Architecture, and an Architecture Intern at the Danish Institute for Study Abroad. Chris began a career in design at DCS Architects as a Designer. Academic credentials include a Master of Architecture and a Master of Landscape Architecture from the University of California, Berkeley, and a Bachelor of Science in Architecture from the University of Virginia.
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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.