Eric Owen Moss Architects

What Eric Owen Moss Architects does

Eric Owen Moss Architects (EOMA) is an architecture and urban design practice headquartered in Culver City, California, founded in 1988 by Eric Owen Moss. The firm delivers full-service architectural design, urban planning, adaptive-reuse, and revitalization services for commercial high-rise, cultural, institutional, hospitality, and residential programs. Its core technology centers on experimental, sculptural, and structurally innovative buildings, including curvilinear steel exoskeleton systems (notably in the (W)rapper high-rise), base-isolated seismic structures, and adaptive-reuse methodologies that preserve industrial buildings while dramatically transforming their function. Signature work includes the 27-acre New City / Conjunctive Points urban revitalization master plan in Culver City's Hayden Tract, which has transformed abandoned industrial warehouses into venues for creative enterprise and has been recognized with 50+ international awards.

EOMA's business model is project-based professional services with a secondary royalty stream from monographs. Projects are commissioned directly by private developers, government and institutional clients, and high-end hospitality operators through direct relationships, the founder's reputation, and portfolio quality. Pricing is custom-quoted per project with no public list pricing. The firm has a single office in Culver City, a headcount of 11-50, and operates internationally with completed projects in more than 30 cities across the US, China, Russia, Europe, South Korea, Mexico, the Middle East, and other geographies. Notable clients include long-term development partner Samitaur Smith (real estate), Chef Jordan Kahn / Vespertine (hospitality), and Sberbank (financial services, Russia). The firm also partners with Arup for advanced structural engineering and distributes its work through monographs, museum exhibitions (MoMA, SFMOMA, MOCA, Getty), and international lectures, which serve as top-of-funnel awareness channels.

Name

Eric Owen Moss Architects

Legal name

Eric Owen Moss Architects

Website

https://ericowenmoss.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

1988

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Eric Owen Moss Architects is a Culver City-based architecture and urban design practice founded in 1988, specializing in experimental, sculptural buildings and adaptive reuse projects for private developers, government institutions, and high-end hospitality clients across more than 30 global cities.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Architectural Design Services

NAICS

Architectural Services (541310)

SIC

Services-Engineering, Accounting, Research, Management (8700)

akta.pro primary industry

Architectural Design Services (BPAHAKAA)

Keywords

• Architectural design services
• Urban revitalization planning
• Adaptive reuse architecture
• Building design services
• Commercial architecture design

Headquarters

HQ city

Culver City

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales, Supply Chain

Revenue model

1. Architecture and Design Services: Project-based architecture fees for designing buildings, interiors, and urban planning projects. Revenue is generated through direct commissions from private developers, commercial clients, and institutional clients for both new construction and adaptive reuse projects.
2. Publication Royalties: The firm generates revenue from published monographs and books documenting their work, including titles published by Rizzoli, Taschen, and other architectural publishers.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels7 records

Core offering

Eric Owen Moss Architects is a Culver City-based architectural design practice offering full-service building design, urban planning, adaptive reuse, and urban revitalization services for commercial, residential, cultural, and institutional programs. The firm designs and commissions innovative, sculptural buildings through direct project-based engagements with private developers, government institutions, and high-end hospitality clients, and also publishes monographs documenting its built work.

Product overview

Eric Owen Moss Architects (EOMA) is an architecture and urban design practice founded by Eric Owen Moss, known for innovative, non-standardized architectural solutions. The firm operates as a single integrated practice offering architectural design services rather than a software product company. Their portfolio includes The New City (Conjunctive Points), a decades-long urban revitalization project in Culver City/Los Angeles, and individual architectural projects spanning commercial high-rises like (W)rapper, cultural buildings like the Jinju National Museum, and experimental structures like Pterodactyl, Vespertine, and Samitaur Tower. The firm also publishes monographs documenting their work. EOMA does not offer a software platform, SaaS product, API, or AI-powered tools—their deliverables are architectural services and built projects.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Architectural Design Services Full-service architectural design encompassing building design, urban planning, adaptive reuse, and urban revitalization projects delivered to commercial, residential, cultural, and institutional clients on a commissioned basis.
• Monographs and Publications Published books documenting the firm's architectural work, including 'The New City: I'll See it When I Believe It' (Rizzoli, 2016), 'Eric Owen Moss Architects/3585' (Applied Research & Design, 2016), and 'The Nanjing Charter' (Terreform UR, 2020), sold through major book publishers.

Quantifiable outcome

• Transformed a 27-acre blighted industrial area into a vibrant creative district employing 15,000 workers
• +2 more outcomes

Named customers3 records

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature4 records

Partnerships

Five partnerships are on record, tiered flagship, core and notable.

• Samitaur Smith (Frederick and Laurie Smith)flagshipStrategic or Co-development PartnerLong-term development partnership spanning 30+ years for The New City urban revitalization project in Culver City's Hayden Tract. The Smiths served as clients for transformative adaptive reuse projects that converted abandoned industrial buildings into creative enterprise venues.
• ArupcoreTechnology or IntegrationStructural engineering partner for (W)rapper, collaborating on the innovative curvilinear steel exoskeleton and base-isolated seismic system. Led tours and technical presentations of the building's engineering.
• Chef Jordan Kahn / VespertinenotableStrategic or Co-development PartnerCollaboration with chef Jordan Kahn on the Vespertine restaurant in Culver City, creating an avant-garde dining experience where architecture intersects with culinary art. The restaurant earned 2 Michelin stars.
• A+D MuseumnotableGTM or Marketing PartnerLos Angeles Architecture and Design Museum that has featured (W)rapper in exhibitions and tours, promoting the firm's work to the design community.
• Urban Land Institute (ULI)notableGTM or Marketing PartnerULI Los Angeles presented a Case Study and Tour of (W)rapper in March 2024, showcasing the project to real estate and development professionals.

Scale indicators4 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• Daniel Libeskind Studio: Studio of Daniel Libeskind producing sculptural, high-impact cultural and master plan projects worldwide. Comparable niche as a star-architect-led boutique competing for memorial, museum, and cultural institution commissions.
• Coop Himmelb(l)au: Vienna-based experimental architecture firm known for deconstructivist, sculptural, and structurally expressive buildings. Comparable in design philosophy (adaptive reuse, non-standard forms, urban regeneration) and in the niche of boutique experimental commissions.
• Johnston Marklee: Small Los Angeles architecture practice with comparable scale (similar employee count) and similar experimental/design-forward portfolio. Both firms participate in LA's experimental architecture scene and hold academic positions (Moss at SCI-Arc, Johnston/Marklee at Harvard GSD).
• Morphosis (Thom Mayne): Los Angeles-based experimental architecture firm founded by Pritzker laureate Thom Mayne. Compares directly to EOMA in experimental/parametric design language, LA base, museum-level reputational positioning, and university-of-architecture connections (SCI-Arc for Moss, UCLA for Mayne).
• Gehry Partners (Frank Gehry): LA-based firm founded by Frank Gehry focused on sculptural, deconstructivist architecture. Competes for similar landmark commissions and cultural institution projects; differentiates from EOMA primarily through larger scale and more projects in dense urban cores worldwide.
• Frederick Fisher and Partners: Los Angeles-based architecture firm of comparable boutique scale and design-led reputation, with a similar project mix across cultural, residential, and adaptive reuse commissions in the LA region.
• Steven Holl Architects: New York-based studio known for site-specific, phenomenologically-driven architecture at cultural and civic scale. Competes for similar museum, civic, and cultural commissions globally and publishes extensively—comparable reputation dynamics to EOMA.

Emerging players

• Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG): Newer-generation experimental architecture firm that has rapidly scaled into a 600+ person practice. Competes with EOMA for sculptural/iconic commissions in the cultural and residential categories, though at far larger scale and broader project mix.

Broad incumbents

• Zaha Hadid Architects: London-headquartered global practice that continues the sculptural/parametric design tradition Zaha Hadid pioneered. Operates at significantly larger scale than EOMA but overlaps on the iconic experimental-commission niche and cultural/civic project types.
• SANAA (Kazuyo Sejima + Ryue Nishizawa): Pritzker-prize-winning Tokyo-based studio for cultural and civic architecture. Comparable niche at the intersection of museum-grade commissions and experimental design language, though operating with broader global reach than EOMA.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

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Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

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