Lehrer Architects

Providing clients with potent projects that elevate the spirit, expertly serve their daily needs, and provide the appropriate—from modest to monumental—presence to honor their institutions and their communities


Potrero Heights Community Center

Camp Shalom

Westwood United Methodist Church

Westside Jewish Community Center

Kaplan Residence

Pisano Residence


Registrar Recorder County Clerk Service Center

Water + Life Museums

Lehrer Architects Office

Santee Court

Norton Towers on the Court

Temple Bat Yahm

James M. Wood Community Center

Downtown Drop-In Center

Davisson Residence

Belson Residence


Institute Honor Award for Interior Architecture 2008, AIA (Lehrer Architects Office)

Honor Award 2008, AIA/LA (Water + Life Museums)

35th Annual Interior Design Competition, 2008 (Lehrer Architects Office)

Award of Merit 2007, AIA/LA (Lehrer Architects Office)

Best Rehab Commercial/Industrial Project 2007, Gold Nugget (Lehrer Architects Office)

Small Office Interiors Award, Contract Magazine (Lehrer Architects Office)

Beyond Green 2007 / High Performance Building, Sustainable Buildings Industry Council (Water + Life Museums)

Honor Award Institutional / Educational 2007, AIA Pasadena Foothill (Water + Life Museums)

Best Sustainable Commercial Project 2007, Gold Nugget (Water + Life Museums)

Award of Merit, Best Public/Private Use Facility 2007, Gold Nugget (Water + Life Museums)

Award of Excellence 2006, Los Angeles Business Council (Lehrer Architects Office)

Award of Merit 2006, AIA California Council (Lehrer Architects Office)

Westside Prize Honor Award 2005 (Santee Court)

Grand Award 2005, AIA California Council, Concrete Masonry Association of California and Nevada (James M. Wood Community Center)

Honor Award 2004, AIA, Faith and Form Magazine, The Interfaith Forum on Religion, Art, and Architecture (Temple Bat Yahm Torah Center)

Best Public/Private Special Use Facility 2004, Gold Nugget (Temple Bat Yahm Torah Center)

Honor Award: Excellence in Residential Design 2004, Gold Nugget (Norton Towers on the Court)

Best Attached Project Over 30 DU/Acre 2004, Gold Nugget (Norton Towers on the Court)

Westside Prize 2004 (Norton Towers on the Court)

Award of Excellence for "Exceptional Contribution" in the Residential category 2004, Los Angeles Business Council (Norton Towers on the Court)

Award of Merit 2004, Multiunit Housing, Residential Architect Magazine (Norton Towers on the Court)

Business Week/Architectural Record Award 2004, AIA (James M. Wood Community Center)

June 2008 AIArchitect.com, "Next to a Real Life Oasis, the Water + Life Museums Offer a Refuge of Sustainable Design"

June 2008 Eco-Structure Magazine, "Museums Secure Platinum Rating" - Water + Life Museums

June 2008 archinnovations.com - Water + Life Museums

June 2008 The New York Times, "The New Trophy Home, Small and Ecological" - Water + Life Museums

June 2008 Metropolitan Home, "Forces of Nature" - Water + Life Museums

May 2008 Interior Design Magazine, "Industrial Strength" - Water + Life Museums

May 2008 Architectural Record - Lehrer Architects Office

April 2008 Real Estate Journal, "Water + Life Museums Certified Platinum"

April 2008 Digg.com, "Water + Life Complex: World's First LEED Platinum Museum"

April 2008 TheSlatinReport.com, "Gold Star for LEED Platinum Museum"

April 2008 USGBC Newsletter, "Desert Museum Complex Receives LEED Platinum"

Spring/Summer 2008 Harvard Magazine - Water + Life Museums

April 2008 CurbedSF.com, "Game Over: Renzo's Academy Lost the LEED Race" - Water + Life Museums

April 2008 CurbedLA.com, "Hemet Museums win LEED Platinum Race" - Water + Life Museums

March 2008 Eco-Structure Magazine, "Water + Life"

February 2008 The Architects Newspaper - Michael B. Lehrer, FAIA

February 2008 ArchitectureWeek.com - Lehrer Architects Office

January 2008 The Press Enterprise, "Green From The Ground Up" - Water + Life Museums

January 2008 Architectural Record, "Art in Michael Lehrer's Architecture" - Michael B. Lehrer, FAIA

November/December 2007 Los Angeles Business Journal, "Architect's Home" - Santee Court

December 2007 California Real Estate Journal, "Water + Life Museums Make a Splash in Hemet"

November 2007 arcCA, "This Century So Far: a Sketch of the AIACC Design Awards" - Various LA Projects

November 2007 Burbank Leader, "Burbank architects receive top honors" - Water + Life Museums

November 2007 Faith & Forum, "A Glass Act" - Michael B. Lehrer, FAIA

October 2007 Hinge Magazine, "LEEDing the Way" - Water + Life Museums

October 2007 SustainableFacility.com, "Web Exclusive: Greening Facilities" - Water + Life Museums

October 2007 The Architects Newspaper, "Car Parks" - PARKing Day LA

October 2007 California Construction, "2007 Top Design Firms in California"

September/October 2007 Form Magazine - Lehrer Architects Office

September 2007 Los Angeles Times, "Promoting green space, one city parking meter at a time" - PARKing Day LA

August 2007 The Architects Newspaper - Lehrer Architects Office

July/August McGraw Hill Construction Product News, "Architect's Corner" - Michael B. Lehrer, FAIA

August 2007 Building Design + Construction, "Two Museums, One Story" - Water + Life Museums

June 2007 California Home + Design, "Water + Life Museum Complex"

June 2007 LA Downtown News, "Returning to Pershing Square" - Michael B. Lehrer, FAIA

Summer 2007 Focus: AIA California Council, "Loving Community: The Act of Intimacy of the Citizen Architect" - Michael B. Lehrer, FAIA

May 2007 The Architects Newspaper, "Supersized and Sustainable" - Water + Life Museums

May 2007 Azure, "Green Museums in the Golden State" - Water + Life Museums

January 2007 Contract Magazine - Lehrer Architects Office

January 2007 Houses of God - Temple Bat Yahm Torah Center

January 2007 Los Angeles Times, "Old Bones in Hemet" - Water + Life Museums

January 2007 LA Architect Magazine, "Desert Museums by Lehrer Gangi Design Build: Water as Idea and Fact"