AC Martin Partners

Albert C. Martin and Associates are an architectural firm whose contributions to commercial and civic structures have shaped the built environment of Los Angeles. In operation since 1906, the firm has consistently emphasized maintaining a balance between precise planning and engineering. Based on the program and location of a building, and with appropriate design elements that reflect the building's intended role, their approach has remained consistent over 100 years of practice. Albert C. Martin and Associates are widely recognized for iconic structures such as the Los Angeles City Hall, Grauman's Million Dollar Theater, May Company Wilshire, and the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power, as well as their extensive contribution to the skyline of downtown Los Angeles, including Sanwa Bank Plaza and City National Plaza.

AC Martin Partners are an architectural firm whose contributions to commercial and civic structures have shaped the built environment of Los Angeles. In operation since 1906, the firm has consistently emphasized maintaining a balance between precise planning and engineering. Based on the program and location of a building, and with appropriate design elements that reflect the building's intended role, their approach has remained consistent over 100 years of practice. AC Martin Partners are widely recognized for iconic structures such as the Los Angeles City Hall, Grauman's Million Dollar Theater, May Company Wilshire, and the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power, as well as their extensive contribution to the skyline of downtown Los Angeles, including Sanwa Bank Plaza and City National Plaza.

In a landscape that is home to many architects striving to define themselves with strikingly distinct styles, AC Martin Partners has consistently contributed architecture seemingly without branding, and structures that reflect the community and climate rather than the firm's corporate identity. Under the guidance of Albert C. Martin Junior (1913-2006) the firm's unofficial slogan was, "The firm is not a single individual," and from honoring neoclassical traditions and the Beaux-Arts style, to Art Deco buildings and glass tower blocks, and from malls to military facilities, their work is all-encompassing. The firm was a central figure in the 1950s post-war boom in Southern California, building many schools, churches, shopping centers, and technology facilities, as well as contributing to a vast amount of less-visible structural engineering work that binds the fabric of the city as a whole.

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