LA DALLMAN

About Elias

Elias Bennett is a Lead Designer and Project Manager at LA DALLMAN. With an avid interest in the intersection between architecture and landscape, Elias oversees design and construction of projects on sensitive sites and in complex ecologies.

Elias’ careful attention to environmental phenomena and geometric exploration underpins a design approach that is responsive to site and formally inventive. His expertise in computational logic contributes to a wide array of custom analytical, representational, and generative tools for design, which are rooted in a concern for materiality and tectonic rigor.

Prior to joining LA DALLMAN, Elias held positions at NADAAA Inc., as well as EHDD and Mark Cavagnero Associates in his hometown of San Francsico, CA. He has also taught design studios at Cornell University and has served as a guest juror at Cornell, Northeastern, and the Wentworth Institute of Technology.

Elias earned his M.Arch II degree with Distinction from the Harvard Graduate School of Design, where he won the Faculty Design Award, honoring the single graduating student of each degree program with significant achievement across a body of work. He was also recognized with the 2025 Award of Excellence from the American Society of Landscape Architects for his collaborative project with landscape designer Emily Kim. Elias earned his B.Arch from Cornell University where he was awarded the AIA Henry Adams Medal for the top-ranking graduate and the Seipp Memorial Competition Prize.

About Oonagh

Oonagh Davis is a Lead Designer and Project Manager at LA DALLMAN. With expertise in ecologically sensitive design thinking, Oonagh oversees LA DALLMAN’s infrastructure work and designs a diverse array of project types. She is also responsible for material detailing and fabrication investigations at numerous scales.

Born in Cincinnati, Ohio, Oonagh holds dual citizenship in the United States and the United Kingdom. Motivated by a passion for hands-on drawing and model making, Oonagh’s design work is recognized for its sensitivity to craft and form. Her work has been exhibited in numerous venues, including the GSD’s Eco Folly Exhibit and the forthcoming GSD exhibit, Our Artificial Nature.

Prior to joining LA DALLMAN, Oonagh worked with French2D in Cambridge, MA, John Lum Architects in San Francisco, CA, and Skidmore, Owings & Merrill in San Francisco, CA.

Oonagh earned her M.Arch II degree from the Harvard University Graduate School of Design, where she was awarded the Gerald M. McCue Medal and Kevin V. Kieran Prize for the highest overall academic record. Oonagh earned her B.Arch from Cornell University, where she was recipient of the Addison G. Crowley Prize, the Heritage Ball Scholarship, and the Merrill Presidential Scholarship. She was selected as the first nationally recognized Presidential Scholar in Design Arts, awarded by the White House Commission on Presidential Scholars and the National YoungArts Foundation, based on academic achievement, leadership, and design excellence.

About Belle

FortIsabelle “Belle” Verwaay Delatour is Lead Designer and Project Manager at LA DALLMAN Miami. With expertise in highly crafted single and multi-family housing as well as institutionally scaled buildings, Belle oversees efforts on projects in sensitive coastal sites.

Born and raised in Haiti, Belle moved to Miami, Florida to complete her secondary education at Palmer Trinity School. She is fluent in French and English, and holds dual citizenship in the U.S. and Haiti.

Prior to joining LA DALLMAN, Belle worked at Perkins Eastman in Washington DC, Arquitectonica in Miami, FL, and De La Guardia Victoria Architects & Urbanists in Miami, FL. She has served as a Guest Critic at the University of Miami’s School of Architecture and University of Maryland’s School of Architecture, Planning & Preservation.

Belle earned her M.Arch degree with Distinction from the Harvard University Graduate School of Design, where she received the Clifford Wong Prize – honoring her housing thesis in her native Port-au-Prince. Belle was recipient of the Faculty Design Award and the Walker Beale Scholarship, and her work has been featured in GSD’s Platform 9 and Platform X, the Unbuilt GSD exhibition at Design Miami, and in Wallpaper Magazine as one of ten of the world’s top graduates in Design. Belle earned her B.A. with high honors from Dartmouth College, where she was an Alfred K. Priest Fellow, and recipient of the Alumni Scholar Award, the Student Art Acquisition Award, and the W. David Dance Fine Arts Award.

About Sigmund

Sigmund Seongyun Jeong is pursuing a professional B.Arch at the Pratt Institute School of Architecture. At LA DALLMAN, he is a key member of the team responsible for the fabrication, computation, and execution of the firm’s submission to the 2025 Chicago Architecture Biennial. He is also a direct Research Assistant for Grace La and James Dallman as well as for faculty at Pratt. Previously, Sigmund served as an intern at Herzog & de Meuron in Basel, Switzerland.

Fluent in English, Korean, and Chinese, Sigmund has lived in numerous international cities and is a graduate of the Seoul International School, where he volunteered with Habitat for Humanity. His expertise is in architectural representation, digital fabrication, and graphic communication, supported by a wide range of 2D and 3D design software.

About Min Ho

Min Ho Kim, AIA is an Architect and Fabrication Lead at LA DALLMAN. Among his responsibilities, he is directing the exhibition model team for LA DALLMAN’s entry to the 2025 Chicago Architecture Biennial. Currently, Min Ho is pursuing a Master of Architecture II at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design, where he serves as a Teaching and Research Assistant for several renowned faculty.

Born in South Korea and raised in Vermont, Min Ho earned his professional B.Arch from California Polytechnic State University in San Luis Obispo where he developed expertise in wood, metal, and digital fabrication. His passion for making has led him to an architectural approach that is rooted in tectonics and materiality-- a working method which considers the act of making in parallel with that of design.

About Brian

Brian Lee is an Architect and Project Manager at LA DALLMAN. With expertise in adaptive reuse and mid-century modern buildings, Brian oversees complex projects in higher education and designs a diverse array of project types.

Brian’s strong agility to negotiate between opposing socio-economic pressures on architecture, coupled with integrative design thinking has led to involvement in projects spanning multiple scales, types, contexts, and complexity. Brian has recently published an essay, “Subject to Change: Experiments in the Rehabilitation of European Public Housing”, with the International Committee for Documentation and Conservation of Buildings, Site and Neighborhoods of the Modern Movement (DOCOMOMO). Born and raised in Singapore, Lee is acutely aware of the influence modernism has had on development, placemaking, and image of a city.

Prior to joining LA DALLMAN, Brian’s experience includes work with a diverse range of firms including BIG Copenhagen, Seattle-based Schemata Workshop, and Singaporean firms CPG Consultants and DP Architects.

Brian earned his M.Arch degree with Distinction from the Harvard University Graduate School of Design. His thesis, “People’s Park Complex: Repairing the Modern City” was awarded the Clifford Wong Prize in Housing Design. He also holds a B.S. in Architecture and Sustainable Design from the Singapore University of Technology and Design, where he graduated summa cum laude and received the Undergraduate Distinguished Scholarship, the Kumpulan Akitek Best Paper Award for History, Theory and Culture, and the Public Award for his capstone project, “(MY)CRO Space.”

About Go

Go Nakao is pursuing a Master of Architecture I at the Harvard Graduate School of Design. At LA DALLMAN, he is a member of the team responsible for the fabrication, computation, and execution of the firm’s submission to the 2025 Chicago Architecture Biennial, among other responsibilities. His has devised unique methods of representation through digital fabrication for unusual forms and configurations.

Go earned his Bachelor of Arts in Architecture with High Honors from the University of California, Berkeley, graduating as one of the school’s youngest students. Before joining LA DALLMAN, he served as an intern at Himawari Design, based in Tokyo Japan, where he engaged in the design of the Monaco Pavilion for the Expo 2025 in Osaka, Kansai, Japan. Go is passionate about adaptive reuse, affordable housing, fabrication innovation, and educational buildings.

About Luna

Luna has served as Office Dog at LA DALLMAN since 2016. She graduated from puppy kindergarten without many honors but is lovable and enjoys attention. Luna is a licensed emotional support animal and is calm when held.