In 2001, Lise Bornstein joined — and now co-leads — KFA Architecture, which has completed approximately 60 buildings in Santa Monica, Venice, The Marina and Westchester, including Santa Monica Swim Center, Santa Monica Boys & Girls Club’s JAMS Clubhouse and Mar Vista Youth Center. She alternates projects between market rate and affordable housing and community-enhancing buildings.
“I love creating places where people flourish,” said Bornstein. “I love working with great people, both in our office and partnering with great developers, who have vision and also similar values of community-building: making sure that we have a good pedestrian experience, that we are not closing ourselves away from our neighbors and that we’re creating neighborhood.”
Bornstein was always building things as a kid. Her dad was an engineer, so she followed suit and started out in engineering. But then she switched courses to dig deeper into her fascination with cities and the built environment—”all the complexity and simplicity that goes into it,” she said. . . .
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Jessica Koslow 