Design Slowdown: Langdon Wilson Architecture Planners, the...
Design Slowdown: Langdon Wilson Architecture Planners, the Newport Beach firm that designed the J. Paul Getty Museum and Richard Nixon Library & Birthplace, laid off five people on Friday, one of the partners said Monday.
“Projects are not moving as fast as we thought they would,” said Asad Khan, a partner in the firm’s Los Angeles headquarters office. The firm has just completed proposals for the design of two universities in Taiwan.
Khan said the layoffs were unrelated to the death last week of founder Ernest C. Wilson Jr. There are now 18 people in the Newport Beach office.
Dianne Hart, executive director of the Orange County chapter of American Institute for Architects, said three-fourths of the chapter’s 1,000 members have had to lay people off during the recession.
“There’s just not much building going on right now,” Hart said. Firms whose customers are in education and health care have done better than others, she said.
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