Author Talk: Essays & Essais with David Marlatt, AIA

For more than a quarter-century, DNM Architecture has been producing innovative and environmentally friendly buildings across the San Francisco Bay Area.

This in-depth study explores how the firm’s client-oriented, flexible philosophy is enhanced by its expertise in 3D CAD software to produce sensitive and highly successful responses to the design program, taking into account function, style, budget, codes, context, schedule, energy efficiency, and dozens of other considerations.

In Essays & Essais ("essais" is French for a trial or experiment), detailed examinations of outstanding residential projects are accompanied by more reflective essays by David Marlatt in which he shares his insights into the practice of architecture in the present and future, the firm’s underlying principles and much more.

With decades of experience in the worlds of architecture and CAD software, David Marlatt, AIA, offers a unique perspective on both the business and the art of architecture.

David graduated from Georgia Tech in 1984, practiced in Atlanta for a number of years, lived in Paris where he helped start up a 3D software development company and launch ArchiCAD in France.

He and his wife finally settled in San Francisco in 1992 where he was president of Graphisoft US, a leading developer of architectural CAD software.

After participating in Graphisoft's successful initial public offering, he departed the software world to return to architecture and founded his firm, DNM Architecture, in 1999.

Now based in Sausalito, DNM Architecture has worked on 100's of residential and commercial projects throughout the Bay Area and beyond.