Todd Erlandson

Adjunct Lecturer in Architecture

Todd empowers non-profit and community-based clients to improve people’s everyday lives through authentic, purpose-oriented architecture. 

He founded his firm, March Studio, to advance marketing strategies through design. He found that community projects benefited from the same identity-based design as his commercial work, so he created a specialized process to investigate their brand values. 

Expanding on his prior experience with branded design in the commercial sector, Todd transitioned his practice methodology to produce purpose-oriented architecture to serve non-profit, community-based clients in the US and overseas.

His mission-focused model provides the framework for directed studio projects for young architects and collaborators, paving the way for future practices based on purpose-oriented architecture and design. He openly shares this model for architects by teaching a new generation of talent about service-centered design.

Before starting March Studio, Todd worked at Stephen Potters Architects and Allen Killcoyne Architects in New York, Richard Meier & Partners Architects and Pleskow/Real in Los Angeles, and G.C.A./SOM in Barcelona.

Todd has most recently taught in the Creative Action department of Otis College of Art and Design, working with multidisciplinary teams of students to help community partners further their mission through art and design interventions, as well as Woodbury University teaching a design studio focused on community outreach, small businesses, and branding. Todd has taught at the Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI-Arc), Woodbury University, Tulane University, and Art Center College of Design in Pasadena.

Todd received his undergraduate degree from Tulane University in 1987 and his graduate degree from SCI-Arc in 1994.