Profile

Initially founded as a fabrication studio, Breakform Design is a full-service, integrated architecture, fabrication, and construction company headquartered in El Segundo's Smoky Hollow neighborhood.

Breakform Design has designed, fabricated, and constructed projects for over twenty years for architects, artists, developers, contractors, production designers, restauranteurs, celebrities, and more. Our team has completed various restoration and revision projects at the Sheats-Goldstein Residence throughout this timeframe.

At our 4,000-square-foot headquarters, half of the office space is for architectural design and construction management services, and the other half of the studio space is utilized for fabrication. Our design process emphasizes progressive design driven by diverse constraints prescribed by the project’s site, budget orientation, context, climate, community, and culture.

Working between industries, our team brings extensive research, in-house knowledge, and multiple points of view that respond to the environment and the lifestyle of the individual or groups they're designed for. Our name, "breakform" is a play on the term "brake," the process by which metal is bent and made more robust, both a nod to our roots and a desire to create formal solutions derived from the forces of each site, where ideas turn into action and actions are indelible of potent ideas.