LA-Más Information

Más is an organization committed to offering architecture, landscape architecture, and urban design services to support and strengthen communities in need. Through research and master planning we promote culturally sensitive design and innovative infrastructure focusing on economic, environmental, and social sustainability. We offer a bottom up approach to challenge and re-define the traditional expectations of civic engagement in the built environment. Through intensive research, and by chiefly involving the user and the community, we uncover new questions that lead to innovative solutions and designs in the areas of public health and community space. Addressing the health and wellbeing of the target population is often a dynamic exercise requiring the coordination of a diverse range of expertise under one umbrella. We believe that this interplay of planning, research, and the design of communities is itself a community endeavor. To that end, we foster social connections among diverse stakeholders to aid in sustainable place making and to provide multiple paths to community growth.