DNM Architect

Specialties

DNM Architect is a San Francisco based architectural firm offering a complete range of services from planning and programming through design, documentation and construction administration. With equal experience in architectural practice and technology, the firm uses intelligent 3D CAD software, to communicate with clients, translate early designs seamlessly into construction documents and manage design changes without disrupting the building process. The firm’s approach not only improves the final design, but produces final drawings faster and more accurately than more traditional methods.

The firm also advocates environmentally responsible building materials and methods to reduce the energy required to both construct and operate buildings. The firm offers computerized energy analysis (sometimes called T24) for all of its projects as a part of its basic design services.

David N. Marlatt is a registered architect in California and Colorado.

History

Established in 1999.

DNM Architect, offers a full range of architectural services from planning and programming through design, documentation and construction administration. Pushing the envelope of architectural practice and technology, the firm uses intelligent 3D CAD software and web-​based project dashboards, to communicate with clients, translate early designs into construction documents and manage design without disrupting the building process. The firm’s approach not only improves the final design, but produces drawings faster and more accurately than more traditional methods.

LEED accredited and Certified Green Building Professionals are on staff. Using tools such as Ecotect, ArchiCAD, EnergyPro, EcoDesigner and more, the firm offers energy analysis and design solutions for optimal energy efficiency that incorporate both both passive and active strategies.

Meet the Business Owner

David N.

Business Owner

David Marlatt, AIA, founder of DNM Architect, and former president of a CAD software company, graduated with an M. ARCH from the Georgia Institute of Technology in 1982 and began practicing in Atlanta with Taylor+Williams Architects where his houses and multi-​family projects won national awards and publication. From from 1987 to 1999, Mr. Marlatt lead a career in architectural software in Europe and the United States as a director of Paris-​based software developer, Abvent SA, president of Graphisoft US, Inc. and finally as Graphisoft’s international vice president of Marketing and Communications. He left Graphisoft in 1999 to retrun to architectural practice.