GENERAL OFFICE is an integrated architecture, design, and development company working with strategic partners and clients to create transformational results across a range of project types. Initiating each project as ‘generalists’, we take the broad view to synthesize information and goals across disciplines, refining and sharpening focus throughout the life of a project to ultimately create unique and visionary experiences.
core services
DESIGN & ARCHITECTURE
Cabins
Custom Homes
ADUs (Accessory Dwelling Units)
Restaurants & Retail
Creative Office
Hospitality
Installations & Exhibitions
Experiential Design & Interactive Environments
Trade Show Design
MASTER PLANNING
FEASIBILITY STUDIES
DEVELOPMENT PROPOSALS
We take pride in guiding our client’s projects from initial idea to completion, and are always excited to hear about your project. Contact us today.
Design
At General Office, we aim to produce projects that become enduring and integral parts to the places they inhabit and shape. With sensitivity to each project’s place in its community, ecology, economy, and culture (quadruple bottom line), our projects seek to improve and enrich daily life, whether at the scale of the object or the city. We find inspiration and opportunities in overlooked spaces, surprising juxtapositions, and conditions that defy expectation. We are driven to push the status quo to a more vibrant, walkable, and ecologically rich future.
development
General Office operates as an Architect-Developer, an integrated role where the functions of Developer, Architect, and General Contractor are rolled into one. This model allows us to create opportunities rather than wait for them, and has the advantage of streamlining the development process by allowing nimble decision making and eliminating points of conflict between each traditional role. It also directly connects the design decisions to the financial performance of a project, and where employed has resulted in numerous successful, high-quality residential and commercial projects. The success of the model proves that leading with design creates added value, where buildings become assets above and beyond the projections of their proformas.
Our development efforts focus on the urban infill neighborhoods of Los Angeles, where small scale development can contribute to a lively urban fabric experienced on foot, and where we can create new models for living in an urban way.
We seek strategic partners to join our mission to develop visionary projects. Contact us today.
ANDREW SIEGER AIA, FOUNDING principal
Andrew is a California licensed architect with over 15 years of experience across a broad range of project types. His passion lies in revealing opportunities at the intersection of design, nature, and culture in order to build more vibrant and successful communities. Key projects include masterplanning The Ecology Center farm in San Juan Capistrano, part of an ongoing collaboration building new community-oriented farms throughout Southern California and beyond. With a vision of the world that places people and nature at the heart of his work, his approach to design and diverse experience makes him well suited to manage the complexities of projects across many scales.
A native of San Clemente, CA, Andrew has lived and worked in New York, Paris, and Los Angeles. He holds a Bachelor in Architecture from California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, and a Master in Real Estate Development from Woodbury University.
RYAN ENZ, principal
Ryan is a multi-skilled design professional with over 15 years of experience working in the fields of design, fabrication, and construction. His love for design has led to multiple successful projects around the globe ranging from the United States, China, and Egypt. His design experience spans across the disciplines of architecture, interiors, planning, furniture, and graphics. His broad experience, diverse talents, and professionalism have contributed to a career highlighted by award winning projects, published designs, and collaborations with the celebrated American artist James Turrell.
Ryan is an accredited LEED Green Associate with a Bachelor in Architecture from California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, and a Master’s degree in Architecture from UCLA.
