Eric Nulman is an architect, educator, and civic leader based in Los Angeles. As a practicing architect since 1999, Eric has worked on a wide range of project types, including cultural, institutional, commercial office, sports, entertainment, retail, multifamily housing, historic preservation, and custom single-family residences.
Early in his career, Eric worked with several design offices, including those of Pritzker Prize-winning architects Thom Mayne (Morphosis – Santa Monica) and Jean Nouvel (Ateliers Jean Nouvel – London and Paris). In 2007, Eric returned from London and accepted a full-time Lecturer position at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo, where he taught design studios, building technology courses, and history and theory seminars until 2011. In 2011, Eric joined the USC School of Architecture to teach material-centered design studios and materials and construction technology courses, and currently holds the title of Adjunct Associate Professor.
In 2012, Eric received the ACSA/AIAS New Faculty Teaching Award, a national honor recognizing demonstrated excellence in teaching during the formative years of an architectural teaching career. In 2013–2014, he was a Fellow and Artist-in-Residence at MacDowell in New Hampshire, where he completed Mono Environments—a study of ephemeral ornament through the construction of maquettes of light-filtering membranes.
From 2016 to 2019, Eric served on the Board of Directors and as Vice President of Operations for the LA Forum for Architecture and Urban Design, an independent nonprofit organization that fosters dialogue on design and the built environment through public programming, exhibitions, and publications. In 2021, he began developing hillside residential projects through END (Eric Nulman Design). That same year, he was appointed to the Planning Commission by the City of Rancho Palos Verdes for a renewable multi-year term. In 2022, he attended the Cal Cities Planning Commissioners Academy as a representative of the City of Rancho Palos Verdes, and in 2023 joined the Rancho Palos Verdes Planning Commission Zoning Subcommittee.
Eric also serves on the Board of Directors for AIA Long Beach/South Bay and is one of the chapter’s representatives to the AIA California Board.
Eric holds architecture degrees from California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo (B.Arch.), and Harvard University (M.Arch.). Born in Los Angeles, he currently resides in the South Bay with his wife and two children.