A BENEFIT for PAUSE
A BENEFIT for PAUSE
Saturday, February 21, 2026
3:30 PM — 8:00 PM
The Client and the Architect
Architecture as a Listening Practice
Saturday, February 21, 2026
3:30 PM — 8:00 PM
The Client and the Architect
Architecture as a Listening Practice
This moderated conversation with Tim Tattu and Tom Marble begins from the shared premise that architecture is not only an act of invention, but an act of listening.
Tattuplex did not emerge from a singular vision or fixed methodology. It was shaped through sustained dialogue between client and architect, between constraint and possibility, and between lived experience and design judgment. Having grown up in Los Angeles, Tattu understood wildfire not as an abstraction but as a condition of place, informing early priorities around durability, fire resistance, and sustainability. Through that exchange, the project took form in ways neither party could have produced independently.
Approaching the work with clear parameters rather than a prescribed outcome, Tattu and Marble entered an unusually rigorous collaboration, allowing listening, adjustment, and refinement to guide decisions. More than a decade later, this conversation reflects on what endures when architecture is shaped through attentive exchange. Rather than centering architectural authorship or process, this discussion focuses on collaboration: how listening alters judgment, how constraints sharpen ambition, and how a house continues to instruct its makers long after construction ends.
Following the conversation, please join us for the sunset reception, Architecture After Dark. Guests are invited to linger, settle in, and continue the conversation over food and drinks across the open air terraces and grounds of Tattuplex.
Food by Heirloom LA
Drinks by Vinovore, with non-alcoholic options available
Desserts by Miss Eclair
Speakers
Tim Tattu grew up in Hermosa Beach, surrounded by art through his mother, an artist and student of Sister Corita Kent. He studied fine art at ArtCenter College of Design before working in film and music video production. In the early 2000s, he left Hollywood life and entered Zen monastic life in Japan and the U.S., where he helped establish Enso House, a home for end-of-life care. This experience led him to study nursing, and he later returned to Los Angeles to begin work as a hospice and oncology nurse. He now leads Aging by Design, a project that combines his dual passions for caregiving and design.
Tom Marble is a Los Angeles based architect with a BA in Architecture from UC Berkeley and a Master of Architecture from Yale. He worked at Skidmore Owings & Merrill, Morphosis, RIOS, and The Irvine Company before founding Tom Marble Architecture in 2001. Through architecture, photography, and design fiction, he explores how human interaction creates the built environment. For him, architecture doesn't emerge from interaction: architecture is interaction. Marble has published extensively and taught at USC, SCI-Arc, Cal Poly Pomona, Woodbury University and Colorado College.
About the Benefit
Proceeds from the evening support the second edition of PAUSE, expanding the publication to include additional voices and reflections emerging from the Eaton Fire. The second edition builds on the original volume, documenting how the effects of the fires continue to shape place, memory, and community over time.
Program
3:30 PM
Self-Guided Architectural Tour
Guests are invited to explore the home at their own pace prior to the conversation.
4:00 PM
The Client and the Architect
Conversation with Tim Tattu and Tom Marble
5:20 PM
Architecture After Dark
A Sunset Reception overlooking the City
**Please Note: The house is located up a steep hill. Unfortunately, this event is not ADA accessible.
Tickets & Access
Limited to 40 tickets
Sponsorship Opportunities
Help support the production and expanded reach of the second edition of PAUSE. These contributions are framed as stewardship of the work and include event access and acknowledgment as supporters.
$500 | Friend of the Publication
Two tickets
Recognition in the event program
$1,000 | Supporting Patron
Two tickets
Recognition in the event program
One copy of the book (2nd edition)
$2,000 | Publication Sponsor
Four tickets
Recognition in the event program
Recognition in the book (2nd edition)
Two copies of book (2nd edition)
*All sponsorships are tax-deductible to the extent permitted by law.
Thank You to our Sponsors:
Here and Now Agency and Tim Tattu
Purchase Tickets and Sponsorship for PAUSE
Image credits:
Image 01: Still Room, L.A. Forum
Image 02: Still Room, L.A. Forum
Image 03: Still Room, L.A. Forum
Image 04: Tim Tattu
Image 05: Tom Marble
Image 06: Taiyo Watanabe
Image 07: Taiyo Watanabe