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Meet the Principals Julie Eizenberg, AIA | Principal in Charge of Design & Master Planning Julie Eizenberg is a founding Principal of Koning Eizenberg Architecture. She brings design vision and leadership to the firm’s wide range of projects and is recognized for her expertise involving cities, nonprofit agencies, educational institutions and private developers. Ms. Eizenberg is an astute observer and institutional iconoclast leading investigations that reshape the way we think about the conventional buildings of everyday living. As a result of her design direction, the firm has won two national competitions—Chicago Public School Northside, and the Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh, which opened in November 2004 to widespread acclaim. Ms. Eizenberg teaches and lectures around the world and is a frequent advisor to the U.S. Mayor’s Institute on City Design. She and her founding partner, Hank Koning, were awarded the Gold Medal by AIA | Los Angeles.
Hank Koning, FAIA, FRAIA, LEED® AP | Principal in Charge of Technical, Regulation & Administration Hank Koning is a founding Principal of Koning Eizenberg Architecture. His vision and creative thinking have driven the firm’s approach to both small and large-scale, as well as urban design, projects. He brings thorough material, sustainability, constructability, cost, and code knowledge to building and site designs, resulting in sensible and practical solutions. In 1992, Mr. Koning was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Australian Institute of Architects and, in 1995, became a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects. A member of the U.S. Green Building Council, he continues to lead the effort in integrating sustainable design ideas into quality design for healthy, environmentally-friendly buildings. His community involvement and planning expertise have been acknowledged in his appointment to the Santa Monica Planning Commission, charged with shaping the future development of the city. He and his founding partner, Julie Eizenberg, were awarded the Gold Medal by AIA | Los Angeles.
Brian Lane, AIA, LEED® AP | Managing Principal Brian Lane is a Principal of Koning Eizenberg Architecture and has overseen many of the firm’s awardwinning community buildings, housing, and hospitality projects. His experience spans a range of project types for government, commercial, non-profit, and private clients. Mr. Lane has led much of Koning Eizenberg’s recent affordable housing work and contributes technical knowledge and design expertise in the production of multi-unit affordable and market-rate housing–family, lofts, special needs and mixed-use. His visualization and graphics skills, combined with his planning knowledge, have enabled numerous cities and agencies to evaluate planning and urban design strategies. Recently, he has contributed to the dialogue on emerging ordinances that will aid housing production in Los Angeles.
Nathan Bishop, LEED® AP | Principal Nathan joined Koning Eizenberg Architecture full-time in 2006, and was promoted to Principal from Associate in 2011. His contributions include a focus on conceptual design and entitlement phases requiring synthesis of developer, city, and community objectives to optimize development potential. This work builds on his experience with prominent Massachusetts architectural/urban design firms and a broad range of high-profile projects and a variety of scales and building types. Running in parallel with his practice is an academic career, with a commitment to teaching design studios, courses in architectural history and theory, and seminars focusing on cultural studies and architectural representation.