Aidlin Darling Design
John Zacherle, AIA LEED AP, is a Senior Designer at Aidlin Darling Design since April 2019, bringing extensive experience in architectural design and project management. Prior to this role, Zacherle worked as a Project Architect at Krueck + Sexton Architects from May 2015 to April 2019 and at Dirk Denison Architects from June 2008 to April 2015. Zacherle began a career as a Designer at Goettsch Partners from June 2005 to June 2008. An alumnus of Virginia Tech, Zacherle earned a Bachelor of Architecture (B.Arch.) degree in 2005.
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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.