Saul is a licensed California Architect (C-40935) based in the Los Angeles area, with over a decade of experience spanning everything from custom single-family homes to large-scale mixed-use commercial developments. He holds a Bachelor of Architecture from Woodbury University.
Saul began his career in 2013 as a Design Intern at Jones Partners and Associates, where he produced design presentations, physical models, renderings, and construction drawings — including a model that was displayed at MOCA, Los Angeles. That same year, he joined TOTUM Corporation as a Designer, a role he held through early 2017. There, he worked alongside the Principal Design Architect on a wide range of project types — single-family residences, medical clinics, commercial buildings, and restaurants — while also contributing to the seismic retrofit of Beverly Hills Unified High School.
In the summer of 2014, alongside his work at TOTUM, Saul took on a Community Design Fellowship at the Skid Row Housing Trust, collaborating directly with residents and community stakeholders on Skid Row 2050 — a long-range vision and design plan for sustainable neighborhood development. It was an experience that permanently shaped how he thinks about architecture’s relationship to the communities it serves.
In 2017, Saul joined House & Robertson Architects in Culver City, a firm specializing as Executive Architects for design firms. In this role he took on large-scale commercial projects — mixed-use developments, high-end retail, and restaurant build-outs ranging from 50,000 to 800,000 square feet — handling everything from early zoning and code analysis through construction administration.
In early 2018, Saul stepped away from the office for something equally demanding: he thru-hiked the Appalachian Trail — all 2,200 miles across 14 states, from Georgia to Maine — covering 15 to 20 miles a day through every condition imaginable. He followed that immediately with an 8-month trip around the world, traveling through Spain, Italy, Greece, Israel, India, Nepal, Thailand, Singapore, Malaysia, Vietnam, the Philippines, South Korea, and Japan. He returned in mid-2019 with a broader perspective on design, culture, and craft.
Back at House & Robertson by June 2019, Saul resumed his work on large-scale commercial projects, taking on increasingly complex assignments across the firm. One of his earliest major undertakings was 42xx Glencoe — a pioneering Cross Laminated Timber (CLT) construction project near Marina Del Rey that he oversaw from initial drawings all the way through construction, deepening his expertise in mass timber building systems. He also played a significant role on OCVibe, the large-scale mixed-use entertainment development in Orange County, where he contributed to the CD development and permitting of several key components: Market Hall, Restaurant Row, Honda Center West, and the Security Hub.
In 2024, Saul was appointed Project Manager for Echelon Studios, one of the most ambitious and closely watched development projects currently underway in Los Angeles. Located in the heart of Hollywood’s historic studio district, Echelon Studios is conceived as a vertical movie studio lot — a first-of-its-kind urban production campus that fuses state-of-the-art soundstage facilities with creative office space, elevated bungalows, and sweeping views of the Hollywood Hills. The project broke ground in Q1 2024 and is slated for delivery in Q4 2026, and was the 2024 recipient of the Los Angeles Architectural Awards’ Community Impact Award. Saul is currently leading construction oversight on the project, managing coordination across a complex, multi-building program on a dense five-acre city block in Hollywood.
What sets Saul apart isn’t just his range of experience — it’s the foundation beneath it. Long before architecture school, he spent years working alongside his father, a licensed plumber, on residential and commercial job sites. Installing sewage lines, gas lines, and finish fixtures gave him an early, ground-level understanding of how buildings actually come together. That perspective informs everything: his belief in meticulous drawing sets, his hands-on approach to trade coordination, and his conviction that subcontractors shouldn’t be left to resolve problems in the field.
If you’re looking for a collaborator who brings equal care to design and execution, Saul would love to hear from you.
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