December 5, 2011
JFAK will present its work on the La Kretz Innovation Campus / LA Cleantech Corridor at the Mayors' Institute on City Design at Columbia University on December 14-16
November 25, 2011
JFAK is awarded the Ackerman Student Union Renovation Study project at UCLA
August 16, 2011
LAPD MTD makes the list of the "Five Most Beautiful Parking Garages in Los Angeles"
July 18, 2011
John Friedman is named to serve on the Visiting Committee of the Department of Architecture at MIT's SA+P
June 30, 2011
Graduate Aerospace Labs at Caltech is the first stop in the On the Map talk and tour series, sponsored by the LA Forum for Architecture + Urban Design. Join us at 7 p.m. tonight.
June 10, 2011
GALCIT wins Westside Urban Forum Design Award
June 4, 2011
Click on the link to take the Arts District Survey for the new Cleantech Park Downtown
LINK TO SURVEY
With CRA/LA and MIG, JFAK to host three design workshops for the La Kretz Innovation Campus Park. Take the community design survey here!
May 25, 2011
LAPD MTD + MSP is building of the week at american-architecture.com
May 19, 2011
LAPD MTD + MSP featured on Architectural Record website
May 16, 2011
The Resnick Institute and Joint Center for Artificial Photosynthesis starts construction at Caltech
May 2, 2011
As part of their work on the La Kretz Innovation Campus, JFAK will design a new park on a half-acre site located at the corner of Hewitt and Fifth Streets in Downtown Los Angeles
December 10, 2010
JFAK is selected by CRA/LA and LADWP to design the La Kretz Innovation Campus for the City of LA's new Cleantech Corridor, which will include the new LA Cleantech Incubator
September 13, 2010
JFAK to design The Resnick Institute and DOE Energy Innovation Hub at Caltech
July 1, 2010
Alice Kimm becomes Chair of Undergraduate Studies at the School of Architecture at USC
June 29, 2010
Graduate Aerospace Laboratories at Caltech wins Los Angeles Business Council Award
June 13, 2010
JFAK, with EPI, is awarded the Design-Build commission for the new Job Placement and Data Center at Los Angeles Harbor College
JFAK, with General Contractor EPI Construction, has won the design competition for the new Job Placement and Data Center (JPDC) at Los Angeles Harbor College (LAHC). LAHC is one of the colleges that make up the Los Angeles Community Design District (LACCD). The design and construction of the new JPDC will be monitored by BuildLACCD, an innovative design-build program focused upon the creation of sustainable campuses across the City of Los Angeles.
The new JPDC will be housed in a completely transformed one-story building on the LAHC campus. The program includes offices and classrooms to serve the needs of four separate departmental entities, including the Data Center for the entire LAHC campus. The addition of a large photovoltaic skylight over a newly enclosed courtyard, a photovoltaic trellis, new LED media screen clock tower, and other enhancements will bring new energy and an iconic identity to the building.
LEED Gold is targeted. The project is slated to begin construction in May 2011 and be completed in June 2012. 
June 4, 2010
PS#1 Elementary School awarded Westside Urban Forum Honor Award
April 29, 2010
GALCIT is the cover feature of Licht + Raum, Issue 2/2010
Read more about the project here 
March 15, 2010
Guest of Honor Pavilion featured in Interior Design Magazine, March 2010
Read more about the project here. 
February 10, 2010
King Residence wins Sunset’s Western Home Award
Sunset’s biennial Western Home Awards winners, to be published in the March 2010 “innovation issue” of the magazine, includes JFAK’s King Residence as the Custom Homes category winner. Link 
February 1, 2010
Alice Kimm is elevated to the College of Fellows of the American Institute of Architects
Elevation to the College of Fellows of the American Institute of Architects is recognized as one of the highest honors that can be earned by an American architect. The Fellowship program was developed by the American Institute of Architects to elevate those architects who have made a significant contribution to architecture and society and who have achieved a standard of excellence in the profession. Election to fellowship not only recognizes the achievements of architects as individuals, but also their significant contribution to architecture and society.
Alice Kimm will be inducted into the College of Fellows during an investiture ceremony on June 12 in Miami, Florida, during the 2010 AIA National Convention. 
January 29, 2010
JFAK to lecture at Woodbury University
JFAK will lecture at Woodbury’s Ahmanson Theater on February 2 as part of the “Locals Only!: Progressive Architectural Practice in Los Angeles Today” Spring 2010 lecture series. 
January 25, 2010
King Residence wins CH+D’s Residential Architecture Award
CH+D has awarded JFAK’s King Residence with its Residential Architecture Award for custom single family residences over 3,000 s.f. The award will be presented at CH+D’s award gala, to be held on February 3 in San Francisco. 
January 20, 2010
JFAK to lecture at the University of Oregon
JFAK will present their work at back-to-back lectures on January 26 and 27 in Eugene and Portland, as part of the University of Oregon’s School of Architecture Spring 2010 Lecture Series. 
December 20, 2009
JFAK is officially tapped to design the Resnick Institute at Caltech
JFAK has been awarded the commission to design the new Resnick Institute at the California Institute of Technology, a research facility that will focus on renewable energy production, harvesting, and storage. The Resnick Institute will be housed in the three-story, A. Quincy Jones-designed Jorgensen Building that occupies a prominent site on Caltech’s main campus. The building will be fully renovated into a zero-emissions scientific laboratory and administration facility. A 40,000 s.f. new addition to the building is also part of the project scope. Occupation of the renovated Jorgensen Building is scheduled for Fall 2011. 
November 1, 2009
JFAK will lecture for ArpaFIL Foundation in Guadalajara, Mexico
On December 2, JFAK will deliver a lecture in Guadalajara, Mexico, as part of the ArpaFIL Architecture Foundation’s lecture series which will run parallel to the 2009 International Book Fair. ArpaFIL, founded in 1995 and dedicated to the advancement of a critical and contemporary architectural discourse, has established a design competition and workshop series, panel discussion, and lecture series to take place November 28 – December 5, culminating in a special event that will honor the City of Los Angeles’ Thom Mayne of Morphosis. John Friedman and Alice Kimm will lecture on their recent work, highlighting the design process that underlies their work on the Guest of Honor Pavilion for the 2009 Guadalajara International Book Fair. 
November 1, 2009
JFAK’s Guest of Honor Pavilion for the 2009 International Book Fair to be inaugurated in Guadalajara, Mexico
On November 28, JFAK’s Guest of Honor Pavilion for the 2009 Guadalajara International Book Fair will be inaugurated during a special ceremony that will feature guests Antonio Villaraigosa (mayor of Los Angeles), Dana Gioia (former Director of the National Endowment for the Arts), the mayor of Guadalajara, and other dignitaries. 
October 2, 2009
Green Dot E. 27th Street Charter High Schools becomes the first LEED-rated charter school facility in Los Angeles
September 1, 2009
GALCIT and Green Dot E. 27th Street Charter High Schools win Architecture’s Annual Design Review Awards
September 1, 2009
GALCIT is featured in Architectural Record’s Record Interiors issue
September 1, 2009
King Residence is featured in Living West: New Residential Architecture in Southern California by Sam Lubell
August 21, 2009
JFAK shares AIA/LA Chapter Building Team of the Year Award for the new LAPD Headquarters complex
March 25, 2009
Green Dot E. 27th Street Charter High Schools wins a Westside Prize Honor Award from the Westside Urban Forum and a Los Angeles Architectural Award from the LA Business Council
February 28, 2009
King Residence is featured in the LA Times
July 31, 2008
Alice Kimm is appointed Visiting Associate Professor of Architecture at USC
May 10, 2008
JFAK wins commission to design new Fitness and Athletic Center at Claremont McKenna College
October 12, 2007
Mira wins an AIA/LA Next LA Merit Award
August 15, 2007
JFAK is tapped to design two new charter high schools for Green Dot Public Schools
April 2, 2007
L.A. Design Center wins The Rudy Bruner Silver Medal for Urban Excellence
January 6, 2007
JFAK to lecture at The Nevada Museum of Art in Phoenix for the Black Rock Design Institute
January 6, 2007
John Friedman is elevated to the College of Fellows of the American Institute of Architects
John Friedman has been elevated to the College of Fellows of the American Institute of Architects, widely recognized as one of the highest honors that an American architect can receive. The Fellowship program recognizes those architects who have made a significant contribution to architecture and society and who have achieved a standard of excellence in the profession. Election to fellowship not only recognizes the achievements of architects as individuals, but also their significant contribution to architecture and society.
The 2007 Fellows will be honored at an investiture ceremony in May at the historic Alamo in San Antonio, Texas, during the 2007 AIA National Convention.