Canyon Studio Architects
About CSA
Canyon Studio Architects is a Los Angeles area firm whose work strives to enhance and celebrate the quality of life. For us, architecture is a direct expression of its place, it’s people and its purpose. It is multi-disciplinary, collaborative and a hopeful legacy, a gift to our future.
Our work includes market rate and affordable mixed-use, senior and multi-family communities, commercial, institutional and custom residential projects. We also provide master planning expertise for project feasibility, site planning and density studies.
Similar methodology is applied to each project, regardless of building typology and scale. We seek to define the problem in terms of scope, budget, client need, time constraints, cultural and environmental context, engineering efficiency, agency compliance and constructability. We analyze the problem from the outside - in, from the big, urban picture down to the plan, section, detail and structure synthesizing research points from all pertinent disciplines into a meaningful, imaginative, built environment.
Recent projects include single family new construction and remodeling, landscape design, and interior design, as well as sustainable affordable senior housing communities, market rate housing communities, and mixed-use projects. Other project experience includes master planning, secondary and higher education, residential new construction and remodeling, and commercial tenant improvement.
We provide an experienced and personal approach to all projects combined with reliability and professionalism.
County of Los Angeles Community Business Enterprise Vendor WBE Verification, City of Los Angeles Vendor OBE Certification
You cannot get through a single day without having an impact on the world around you. What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.
— Jane Goodall
Studio
Ann Cash
Ann Schaefle-Cash
Architect & Principal,
LEED AP for BD &C
Real Estate Broker (ID No. 01014420)
Ms. Schaefle-Cash is the founding principal of Canyon Studio Architects. Born in in Los Angeles and raised in Rancho Palos Verdes and La Canada Flintridge, CA, she received her Masters of Architecture from the California State Polytechnic University in Pomona, CA and has undergraduate degrees in Fine Art and Theater. She has worked for several prominent Los Angeles based architectural firms and began her own studio in 2008. In addition to architecture, her background includes a wide range of professional skills such as real estate, sustainable design, marketing, product design, fine arts and education.
Education
Masters of Architecture
California State Polytechnic University, Pomona
Bachelors of Arts, Bachelor of Theater Arts
California State University, Los Angeles
Licenses and Certification:
Architect, State of California
Real Estate Broker, State of California
LEED AP for Building Design and Construction
Membership
USGBC
California Association of Realtors
National Association of Realtors
Citrus Valley Association of Realtors
WBE Verification