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Ari Engelman

Ari Engelman

Principal Architect at Tim Barber Architects in Los Angeles, specializing in high-end residential architecture and design.

Jun 23, 2026

6:25
Is that the death of the open floor plan, or is it a pause, a hibernation, a hiatus?
6:30
I mean, I think for us, the reality is we never designed an open floor plan to begin with because we saw the negatives of it anyway.
6:39
So I don't think it's maybe drastically changed the way that we do our design work.
6:44
What I think it actually has done is brought everyone else to realize why it is necessary to separate those spaces.
6:50
And we're not talking about closing them off and putting doors on them.
6:53
but to make it to where you've got what Tim always refers to as parentheses on a room so that you actually have a sense of place and a sense of space inside the house versus just everything everywhere.
7:05
I think it is that attention to the space that people started to actually grow when they realized that they were going to be in their houses so much longer.

54 MINS LATER

61:40
So that's just a concern that I don't know what the answer is, but other than trying to get more people involved in that.

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